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. 1987 May;77(5):619–620. doi: 10.2105/ajph.77.5.619

The impact of a parental notification law on adolescent abortion decision-making.

R W Blum, M D Resnick, T A Stark
PMCID: PMC1647036  PMID: 3565660

Abstract

In 1984, we investigated the impact of a parental notification statue with judicial bypass procedures in Minnesota. Subjects were interviewed on the day of their abortion at four Minnesota and two Wisconsin clinics. Relatively few were aware of the statute in Minnesota. Parental notification rates were similar in Minnesota and Wisconsin, which has no parental notification statute.

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