Teen Pregnancies: Parental Rights Not Guaranteed by Law

March 30th, 2010

A ‘Breaking News’ item emailed from the Life Issues Institute recently told of a teenage high school student in Seattle, Washington, whose school’s health clinic arranged for an abortion for her without informing her parents. This prompted a question from a Halton Pro-Life member: what’s the policy in Canada on parental consent? The policy is: no legal requirement for parents to be informed, even though teenage abortions are more psychologically damaging than abortions on adults. To find out more, click here.

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