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U of I Professor Writes Book on Parental Abortion Notification
Nearly 40 years after Roe v. Wade, the debate about abortion is never-ending. It has produced, now, a second book for a University of Illinois professor.

Leslie Reagan, who works in law, women's studies, and history, says laws putting restrictions on abortion target powerless young women, and seem mainly to be intended to scare them and stigmatize abortion. She says Illinois' parental notification law has been tied up in legal challenges for 15 years. She believes efforts would be better spent on family counseling and sex education, saying parental notification is a good, common-sense idea but not necessarily a good law.

Reagan adds the latest trend, requiring women to view their ultrasound before an abortion is performed, is backfiring, as the image does not look as much like a baby as the women thought.

Reagan is the author of Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America and the previous When Abortion Was a Crime.

(Illinois Radio Network)
06 21 10 by Newsroom
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