Hear, hear. There are more than a few women who as teenaged girls were hauled off to the clinic for an abortion by their middle-class moms who said “You are having an abortion, you live would be ruined if you had a kid at your age”.
People who oppose abortions needs to recognize that solid recognition of the authority of the pregnant minor’s right to make the decision w/o parental interference might stop many abortions even while permitting many others. And if you really want to look for post-abortion depression or abortion-related emotional trauma etc etc, this would be the place to look.
Parents have no more business consenting to motherhood on behalf of their minor children (by way of interfering in abortion) than they have consenting to sex on their minor daughter’s behalf.
This is morally wrong, too. If a male does not wish to parent a child, that male should have the legal right to terminate parental rights and responsibilities. If he is the sole parent at the time, this would constitute giving the child up for adoption or otherwise turning the child over to the state for foster care, etc. If the mother wishes to parent the child, she would at that point inherit sole custody.
This isn’t how things are. It’s proven too convenient to the state to keep men’s dicks, wallets, and any living products of their semen all tied up together. As with the attitude towards women “If you didn’t wanna be pregnant you shoulda kept your legs together”, the attitude towards men “If you didn’t wanna pay child support you shoulda kept ya dick in ya pants” if offensive, oppressive, and politically intolerable.
But two wrongs do not make a right; and women’s right to their own reproductive authority, and bodily autonomy, is a more crucial matter. (And it has to come first. No way in hell are males going to be allowed the choice of declining responsibility for their kids if females cannot reliably, dependably, safely, and affordably prevent unwanted pregnancies).