首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
"I wouldn’t want to have someone take my daughter to a hospital for an abortion or something and not tell me. I would kill him i
"I wouldn’t want to have someone take my daughter to a hospital for an abortion or something and not tell me. I would kill him i
admin
2010-07-19
78
问题
"I wouldn’t want to have someone take my daughter to a hospital for an abortion or something and not tell me. I would kill him if they do that." So much for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s typically expressive sup port for Proposition 73, a constitutional amendment requiring doctors to give parents 48 hours’ notice before carrying out an abortion on a girl under 18.
Will the voters agree with the governor? His own status erstwhile hedonist turned responsible father of two teenage girls and two pre-teen boys reflects his state’s mixed feelings about sexual politics. California is one of the most sexually liberated states in the nation. It also boasts the fifth worst rate for teen age abortions and the seventh for teenage pregnancies. In 2000, some 116,000 teenagers in California became pregnant, and almost 44,000 of them chose to have an abortion--including 1,620 under the age of 15. A recent Field Poll showed 45% of respondents in favour of the amendment, 45% against and 10% undecided.
The proposition’s advocates are careful to argue that supporting parental notification is not the same as opposing abortion full stop. Mr. Schwarzenegger is a "pro-choice Republican" and the proposition would allow a minor to petition a court to allow her an abortion without notifying a parent. The real point, they say, is that a 17-year-old girl "can’t get an aspirin from the school nurse, get a flu shot, or have a tooth pulled without a parent knowing", but a 13-year old can have a surgical or chemical abortion without her parents’ knowledge. And since a majority of the prospective fathers are over 21, the current system in effect condones statutory rape.
Opponents, including the California Nurses Association and Planned Parenthood, are unconvinced. As an editorial in the Los Angeles Times argued: "It’s nice to think that all girls feel comfortable talking to their parents about sex, birth control and abortion. Nice, but absurd." Equally absurd, add other opponents, is the notion that a pregnant teenager from an abusive family will have the gumption to go to court rather than to some backstreet operator--to seek her abortion. And they suspect the proposition is the start of an effort to ban all abortions: instead of speaking of a fetus, the proposition defines abortion as causing the "death of the unborn child".
Just how parental notification would affect the rate of teen pregnancies and abortions is an open question. Some 34 states require some parental involvement in a minor’s decision to end a pregnancy, but there is no hard and-fast correlation with the number of abortions. For example, New Mexico and New Hampshire require no parental notification, but according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive health, they ranked 18th and 25th in the rate of teen abortions in 2000. By contrast, Wyoming and Florida, which do have notification laws, ranked 14th and 7th. And even if notification laws deter abortions, they do not seem to deter teen pregnancies: Texas, for example, is ranked 26th in abortions for girls aged 15--19 but fifth in pregnancies for that age group.
This last statistic matters for California, where the main problem is teens getting pregnant in the first place. Roughly a quarter of California’s 14 year-olds and three-fifths of its 17 year-olds have had sex. True, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, birth rates fell from 73 for every 1,000 15--19 year-olds in 1991 to just 44 in 2001. But California’s teenage girls become mothers at between 4 and 12 times the rate of their peers in France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan; the figures for blacks and Latinas in the state are particularly appalling. Whatever your views on abortion, these statistics add up to an awful lot of heartache.
Those who are against the proposition suspect that it may lead to ______.
选项
A、a protest of teenage girls.
B、full stop of abortion.
C、more cases of child abuse.
D、serious social problems.
答案
B
解析
细节题。题干中的against与第四段中的opponent属于同一语义场,定位至该段。末句指出:they suspect the proposition is the start of an effort to ban all abortions,故[B]为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/etlO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
【B1】【B6】
Accordingtothenews,AmericantroopsinPanama
TheOxfordWordfinder(OWF)isa"productiondictionary"designedforlearnersforEnglishatintermediatelevelandabove.Iti
Inadditiontothenationalsocialsecuritysystem,17specialpensionschemesareamongthesocialadvantagesthatgovernmente
TheImportanceofQuestionsFornon-nativespeakersofEnglishwhowanttoparticipateingroupdiscussions,itisimportant
ThenationalanthemofAustraliaisnowthetuneof_____.butonregalandvice-regaloccasionsGodSavetheQueenmustbeplaye
Wheredidthemoviesbegin?ItisoftensaidthattheyareanAmericaninvention,andthisisnotentirelytree.Themotionpict
TheWorldHealthOrganizationsaysitsten-yearcampaigntoremoveleprosyasaworldhealthproblemhasbeensuccessful.Doctor
将近九十年以后,毛姆在一次广播讲话里用自己的话重申了这个看法,并作了发挥。如果我没有理解错的话,毛姆先生说的是:人的头脑的基本构造之中具有一种东西,它非常喜欢甚至要求听人讲故事,讲一个开头、中间、结尾都齐全的故事。他还说,现代有些作家过分热衷于剖析心理和进
WeliveinsouthernCaliforniagrowinggrapes,afirstgenerationofvintners,ourhomeadjacenttothevineyardsandthewinery
随机试题
已知某微分方程的通解为y=ex(C1cos2x+C2sin2x+C3),其中C1,C2,C3为任意常数,则原微分方程为______。
在油气区域勘探阶段,为物探解释提供参数而钻的探井称为()井。它属于盆地进行区域早期评价的探井。
一个设计优良的市场营销信息系统一般由哪些子系统构成()
张某将自己的电视卖给李某,双方约定电视卖给李某后仍然由张某使用半个月。李某是通过哪种交付方法取得电视所有权的()
免疫应答过程不包括
患者女,47岁。因“踝关节疼痛半月余”就诊。查体:大致正常。辅助检查:尿蛋白(+),血肌酐156μmol/L,血尿酸650μmol/L,余无明显异常。诊断:高尿酸血症;慢性肾脏病。医嘱:治疗用药和用药方法别嘌醇片100mg,口服,3次/日;碳酸氢
钢材经过冷加工、时效处理后,性能发生了下列哪项变化?,
在皮亚杰认知发展理论的基础上,科尔伯格提出了著名的道德发展阶段论,该理论把儿童道德判断划分为三种水平、六个阶段,后习俗水平包括社会契约定向阶段和()
我国是一个多民族国家,各民族都有特色乐器。下面对应不正确的是()。
Forthesafety-consciousSwedishmarket,aUnitedStatesmanufacturerofdesktopcomputersdevelopedaspecialdisplayscreenth
最新回复
(
0
)