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Mother Challenges Teen Abortion, UK Parental Notification Law

By Terry Vanderheyden

LONDON, November 8, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A case before the UK’s High Court today will review whether parents must be contacted before an under-age daughter has an abortion.

A mother of two teenage daughters, Sue Axon, brought the case before the court, arguing that under current law a doctor or school nurse does not have to contact a parent before a minor girl can obtain an abortion. She said that although neither of her teenage daughters has ever had an abortion, she did, herself, 20 years ago and deeply regretted it.

A 1986 law allowing prescriptions for contraceptives to be given confidentially to girls under 16 included abortion as an implicit component of the program. The policy came under attack in May last year when the mother of a 14 year-old girl learned her daughter had procured an abortion without her knowledge.

“I am very concerned that this could happen without my knowledge,” Axon said, as reported by the Times On Line. “I believe this concern would be shared by every mother in the country.” Axon argues that for a school nurse to have to call home for permission to give her child an aspirin, yet not for an abortion is “crazy.”

A UNESCO document (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) document, titled “Unwanted Pregnancy and Unsafe Abortion,” published in late 2003 called for sweeping government reform to make abortion available to all women and adolescent girls without restriction, going as far as to suggest that governments should subsidize abortions and offer “redress” to women who have been “denied” access to abortions “that should be made available to them.”

The document goes on to reveal the UN plot to mandate access to abortion by a girl of any age without parental consent. The document reads “Wherever the law allows, Governments should guarantee the privacy of those seeking abortion services, especially adolescent women.”

Anthony Ozimic, political secretary for the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), told LifeSiteNews.com, “Not only is abortion fatal for babies but it can leave serious emotional scars on those girls who undergo it. Girls are simply being rushed through the abortion mill by a government failing to reduce teenage pregnancy rates and by abortion clinics with a vested interest in easy access to abortion. Doctors and abortion clinics rarely give girls the necessary facts about abortion. Parents are being left to pick up the pieces after abortions performed on their daughters without their knowledge. The promotion of secret teen abortions shows how extreme the Government and the pro-abortion lobby have become.”

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage,
UK Mother Wins Right to Challenge Parental Consent Law
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/dec/04121507.html
UNESCO Calls Abortion on Demand “Proper” Medical Procedure for Girls
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/oct/03103103.html
UK Mother Seeks to Change Law after Daughter Traumatized by Secret Abortion
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/04021003.html

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