Abortion needs to be legal and females of any age need to be able to have abortions in a safe, clean, sterile, professional medical environment. Parents don't have a right to decide or approve if their teen has an abortion. If you want to know what is going on in your children's lives, TALK to them, BUILD an open relationship and ENCOURAGE dialogue with your children. If parents have to be notified - well desperate people do desperate things, do you really want people to have babies they don't want??! That's a recipe for disaster. Abuse, neglect, assault, rape and the child is the one who ultimately spends a lifetime suffering. "Loving" parents abuse their children all the time, babies don't stand a chance if they are hated and unwanted from conception.