Byline: Deborah Gesensway Capitol bureau
Teenage pregnancy isn't ended by laws that deny abortions to minors who don't tell their parents, but these laws can threaten girls' mental and physical health, according to lawyers and sociologists from two states with mandatory parental consent laws.
Two anti-abortion legislators are about to introduce such parental consent bills in New York's Legislature.
In Massachusetts, a 1981 consent law hasn't stopped teenage girls from getting abortions, said Virginia Cartoof, a Boston-based sociologist who studies teenage pregnancy and parenthood issues. The girls, she found, merely traveled to neighboring New England states that don't …
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