Anti-Abortion Bills Gain Momentum

Virginia, the commonwealth (not state) that's so conservative that the Democrats in the House of Delegates won't even stop a parental consent bill, a bill to ban partial-birth 'infanticide' or a bill requiring the notification of parents for treating certain conditions. We have a parental notification law already, and we've seen the number of teenage abortions go down as a result. Of course, many of the girls are probably just going to jurisdictions with fewer parental involvement requirements, but not all of them have the means to truck it accross state lines.

Pro-lifers would like to chalk up the decreases in teen pregnancies and abortions to the increased parental involvement. Pro-abortioners would like to ascribe the drop to an increase in back-alley abortions.