11. Bush is running radio ads touting his signing of the Texas law requiring parents to be notified before their minor daughters can get an abortion. 12. Bush says he will take international aid away from family planning clinics that in any way, shape, or whisper tell women where they can get an abortion. 13. But opponents of abortion rights failed to muster the votes needed to put on the November ballot a constitutional amendment requiring parental notification before minors can get abortions. 14. But some lawmakers argue that many girls would rather endanger themselves by getting an abortion from someone other than a doctor than tell their parents or face a judge. 15. But when they do, such a restriction would surely pressure more of them to get abortions. 16. Claire asks a doctor and a fellow nurse about getting an abortion, but no one seems willing to take the risk. 17. Clinic officials have neither confirmed nor denied that the girl is getting an abortion there. 18. Eighteen-year-olds can marry, vote, and get an abortion. 19. Finkel says Jakubczyk is a warrior for Life Dynamics, a Texas-based pro-life movement determined to make it more and more difficult to get abortions. 20. For example, a doctor might recommend that a pregnant woman undergoing cancer treatment get an abortion. |