... been found to be more likely to be consulted than parents once pregnancy is confirmed (83% v. 56%). (Patterns of Consultation Among Adolescent Minors Obtaining An Abortion, MD Resnick et al, Amer. J. Orthopsychiatr. 64:310, April,1994.) An Atlanta study of adolescents obtaining abortions at five different private facilities found that 51% confided in their parents. (Parental Consent ... psychiatric hospital compared to childbearing women. The risk for psychiatric admission was significantly higher for single or separated women compared to married women. Postpartum and Postabortion Psychot...

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... act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus'; and (B) performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the fetus"(Gonzales, Attorney General v. Carhart et al.," para. 2). The Act's statute indicates the regulations and proscriptions on the D&E procedure. The physician is required to deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head ... previability and postviability because, by common understanding and scientific terminology, a fetus is a living organism within the womb, whether or not it is vi...

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... unwanted pregnancy is almost unheard-of, and/or a baby could safely be "adopted" when only a few months old, using some high tech transplant process, et cetera. But until this happens, it would be like banning anything else; a! failure that creates more excuses for oppressive government. Unfortunately, this is the least ... , or gamble? Or, for that matter, why can't she own and carry guns, keep all of the money she earns on her job, et cetera? Why is her right to privately control every other aspect of her life not protected? Let's face it...the Supreme Court simply wanted to ... unwant...

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... these personal privacy and reproductive rights repeatedly, but have been unable to get successfully overturn the Roe decision. Only one case, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al, 505 US 833 (1992), has successfully gone on to allow some minor adjustments to the Roe decision. While not overturning Roe, it allowed certain restrictions in the first trimester even ... Necessity. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Judges, D. (1993). Hard Choices, Lost Voices. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. Miller, P. (1993). The Worst of Times. New York: Harpe...

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... more we encounter the slippery slope of germ line gene therapy. Sources: Harper, J.C. and Wells, D. "Recent advances and future developments in PGD" Prenatal Diagnosis 19 (1999): 1193-1199 Ray, Pierre F. et.al. "Successful preimplantation genetic diagnosis for sex linked Lesch-Nyhan syndrome using specific diagnosis" Prenatal Diagnosis 19 (1999): 1237-1241. Sudbery, Peter. Human Molecular Genetics. Singapore: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998. Lee ... ...

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