Parental involvement laws not only save the lives of babies, they also lower the suicide rate of teenage girls. We are posting the entire email we received from the National Prolife Alliance, with the links to the articles. The study is published in Economic Inquiry, the official journal of the Western Economic Association International, a California based economics think tank.
Yet more proof that sidewalk counseling saves lives and helps women!
Psychological mumbo jumbo vs. death?
Frankly, this shows there must be something wrong with their minds.
But now there's a new study that shows even this rationalization excusing abortion-on-demand is false.
The fact is, not only do parental intervention laws save the lives of unborn babies and give parents back the right to stop an abortion from being performed on their minor daughter. . .
. . . but they also reduce suicide rates among teen girls by as much as 11 to 21 percent.
These findings, released in the spring journal of Economic Inquiry demonstrate the fact that abortion decisions by pregnant teens lead to feelings of overwhelming guilt.
If you have time to take a look at this study on the dual life-saving results of parental intervention laws, I encourage you to click on this link to read the article.
But the bottom line is that hundreds of thousands of unborn babies die as a result of wrongheaded decisions, and one out of five abortions is performed on a minor.
And it's evident that a parent's intervention to stop an abortion can save not only the unborn baby's life but in many cases save two lives -- both the unborn baby and the teenage mother.
For Life,
Martin Fox, President
National Pro-Life Alliance
this is an excellent article; problem - it's 17 pages long. If you hit the link the gist of it is on the first page
"Using state-level data on suicides from the period 1987 to 2003, we find that
the adoption of a law requiring a parent’s notification or consent before a minor
can obtain an abortion is associated with an 11%–21% reduction in the number
of 15- through 17-year-old females who commit suicide. In contrast, the adoption
of a parental involvement law is not associated with a reduction in the number of
older females who commit suicide or in the number of 15- through 17-year-old males
who commit suicide. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that parental
involvement laws represent an increase in the expected cost of having unprotected
sex, and, as a consequence, serve to protect young females from depression and
what have been termed “stressful life events” such as conflict with a parent or an
abortion. (JEL I18, I10, J13)"
Posted by: Tom faranda | July 13, 2012 at 01:26 PM