Interesting article, and the conclusion that parental involvement laws help to reduce the abortion rate is not surprising.
However, the article only addresses abortion. I would suspect that such laws also have an effect on whether teens decide to get pregnant in the first place, thereby reducing the overall teen pregnancy rate. (Yes, if they are engaging in risky sex because they know they can “have everything taken care of,” they ARE deciding to get pregnant.) I’d like to see the results of such a study.
The older generation has the wisdom to place more value on life, and the resources to help their daughters through a crisis. That’s just one more reason why the Lord place the young in families with more experienced parents- something the abortion mills loathe.