Illinois’s Medical Disciplinary Board has voted to start enforcing a law that requires doctors to give the parents or guardians of girls 17 or younger 48 hours’ notice before providing them with abortions. For a primer on why parental notification laws suck, check out this article at RH Reality Check. Some highlights: While parental notification laws are intended to protect young women, they assume that all young women can safely involve their family in the decision to terminate a pregnancy. Ideally, young women would freely inform their…
