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"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
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2010-07-19
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"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.
The best title [or the passage would probably be ______.
选项
A、Hard Decisions to Make.
B、A Constituitonal Amendment.
C、Teenage Pregnancies.
D、The State of California.
答案
A
解析
主旨题。文章开篇指出一项新的宪法修正案,之后介绍加州十几岁的少女怀孕的人数非常多。对于 18岁以下少女流产必须要经过父母认可这项法案存在支持和反对两种声音。最后作者用其他州的数据来说明全文末句:Whatever your views on abortion,these statistics add up to an awful lot of heartache.[A]符合文意,故为答案。全文重点是对该修正案的讨论,非修正案本身,排除[B]。[C]是争论想要解决的问题,非本文主旨,排除。
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