Abortion Rights Opinion Shifting

A new poll shows that more people support taking away the privacy of pregnant teens

A new poll finds that while a large majority of Californians still support abortion rights, more are open to placing restrictions on abortions, including notifying a parent when a minor seeks to end her pregnancy.

Since January 2000, the percentage of Californians who say they do not favor limits on abortions has declined 10 percentage points, to 71 percent. Over the same period, the number who back abortion restrictions has grown by 8 percentage points, to 27 percent.

"There's been a small shift. Californians are strongly supportive of abortion rights. Most are against restrictions, but not to the degree that they were in 2000," said Public Policy Institute of California president and survey director Mark Baldassare.

I'd like to think that most girls who live in a loving & supportive home in which they can talk to their families about these types of issues, do for the most part go to their parents. It's the other girls out there that I worry about; the ones from abuse homes, or freaky religious homes, or who knows what kind of homes. Their rights need to be protected.