Francine Stein pushing her baby-killing services

061905 Why Planned Parenthood opposes Parental notifcation

Planned Parenthood's information affiliate, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, published in its 1990 November/December issue of Family Planning Perspectives its finding on restrictions of a minor's access to abortion, including parental involvement laws. It reported, "More liberal abortion policies increase the abortion rate of premaritally pregnant young women." and: "Greater (legal) restrictions also lowers the probability of becoming pregnant."

It's no wonder, then, why the director of Planned Parenthood Westchester/ Rockland and the president of the Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion both oppose New York state's parental notification bill. They know that as more states adopt such laws, abortion rates and profits decline.

Parental involvement and age-of-consent laws set parameters on such activities as voting, drinking and driving. Even regarding sexual activity, the state does not allow for consensual sex under 16. These legal provisions exist because parents realize that a certain level of emotional maturity is required to participate in such activities, without which minors might come to harm or fail to act responsibly. 

Planned Parenthood's Francine Stein's charge that ". . . Parental involvement laws are both ineffective and dangerous." is not only ludicrous but unsupported by her own organization's data.

- JOSEPH P. GIARDINA
Mount Kisco