51. Pregnant teen-agers are legally forbidden to seek abortions, of course, and are given few other options. 52. Several states are proposing laws that would require clinics and doctors to warn women seeking abortions that abortion increases the risk of cancer. 53. Some doctors in New York have already been offering the drug to women seeking nonsurgical abortions. 54. Somerville, an attorney, said he had pressured Planned Parenthood to make this risk known to women seeking abortions, but to no avail. 55. Some doctors said they anticipated many women seeking abortion would prefer the surgical approach, since the procedure usually is over in a day. 56. Supporters of the amendment said that under the present system, women must ask their commanding officer for permission to return to the United States to seek an abortion. 57. Texas law, at least for now, does not require parents to be notified when their young daughters seek abortions. 58. Such abortions are sought primarily by women who have discovered that their fetuses have severe abnormalities or that they themselves have serious medical problems, or by teen-agers. 59. The boyfriend flew in, but the couple ran away to Windsor, Ontario to seek an abortion. 60. The court found that women seeking abortions were surrounded, grabbed, pushed and yelled at, and local police were harassed. |