and medical treatment for venereal disease(Luker 228 ). At sixteen someone can not buy cigarettes but they can eliminate their unborn child, without even consulting their parents.In the U.S. ninety-six of one thousand girls aged fifteen to nineteen became pregnant in 1985 ( McKeegan 113 ). In Canada only forty-four and in the Netherlands only fourteen girls became pregnant in the same statistic in 1985 ( 113 ). A small number of the states require to receive counseling that must and be accompanied by and adult over the ages of twenty-one or twenty-five (Kaufmann 41). Each state varies on how old an adult must be (41 ). The counseling must occur before the abortion and the parent does not necessarily need to be notified, unless the teenager decides to Baumann 5tell them on their own. Parental notification laws are the third way that states help control teenage abortions. The parents will be notified by mail or phone and the abortion will not take place until the parents have been notified. ( 40 ) The permission of the parents does not have to occur only notification ( 40 ). It has become immensely easy to get an abortion in modern days. The general cost of an abortion is $250. Loans are offered to those who have a financial difficulty. Someone over the age of twenty-one must sign for the loan only if the teenager is under eighteen years in age (Radl 61). Teenagers over the age of sixteen can take responsibility for killing a life and take responsibility for their own life being in danger. Now in America there is another type of abortion being performed. This abortion is in the form of prescription drugs, called RU-486, also called mifepristone, but more commonly known as the abortion pill. In Simons Article, in the Los Angeles Times, she states that: The National Abortion Federation already has trained 1,800 health-care workers in the administering of RU-486, including 400 who do not perform surgical abortions. And a recent surve...
