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Since abortion is a surgery, and parents are the ones who sign consent forms for surgeries for children under the age of 18, parents should definitely be informed about their daughters' abortions.
Although I hate using the "slippery slope" argument, here it goes: if kids under age 18 can start to consent to major surgeries such as abortion without their parents' consent, it won't be too long before they'll be able to get boob jobs, liposuction, and other plastic surgeries without parents' consent too!
Honestly, I think that teenagers who get pregnant deserve their consequences! Everybody knows about birth control methods -- many of which are available over the counter without a prescription to anybody who walks into a pharmacy. If a kid insists on playing with fire, I think that just like the rest of us, they should get burned.
When I started having sex, not only was I on the birth control pill, I also used condoms. To this day I use condoms. And guess what -- I've never gotten pregnant! It's as easy as that! If some idiot wants to put aside all the warnings and education about safer sex and go ahead and fuck without protection, they deserve the consequences.
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