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Article: Abstinence Clearinghouse: New JAMA Study Credited for Push to Remove Parental Rights
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- January 20, 2005
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Jan. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A study published in
JAMA this week ("Adolescents' Reports of Parental Knowledge of
Adolescents' Use of Sexual Health Services and their Reactions to
Mandated Parental Notification for Prescription Contraception") is
being used to support the ridiculous idea that adolescents should be
able to acquire contraception without parental consent, according to
Abstinence Clearinghouse.
Inciting fear that as much as 18 percent of the teen population
would rush into sexual activity without contraception if parental
consent for contraception was required, the Alan Guttmacher Institute
and other contraception education supporters are already sourcing the ...