I feel that parents should not be informed that their teen is requesting an abortion because it will lead to more teenagers giving birth to unwanted children, unsafe and illegal abortions, infant abandonment, and even worse, infant murder. Within the past few years, infant killing by teenagers is on the rise. In one case, a teen hid her pregnancy and nine months later gave birth to the baby boy in the family basement. Afterward she …showed first 75 words of 441 total…

…showed last 75 words of 441 total…parent. Putting all that aside, if she is determined to carry out an abortion, without my knowledge, I can only pray that she has a safe environment and competent, knowledgeable health care providers available for support,without fear of betrayal. If thi is an option, and my daughter is desperate enough, the choices she makes from that point on, and the concequences that could follow, may be far more devastating than she could ever imagine.