The absolutist view is equally at odds with our constitutional traditions. Polls routinely show that 75%-80% of citizens favor parental notice. Last week, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll showed that 69% of citizens favored requiring minors to get parental consent. Polls have consistently shown that a vast majority of Americans, including pro-choice citizens, favor either parental notice or consent for abortions performed on minors. It is a view that is not shared by most citizens, who see abortion in the context of other legitimate interests - not some absolute right that trumps all other rights. PawlingвЂ™s comment captures how abortion has become a zero-sum game for pro-choice groups: Every curb on abortion is seen as an equal loss for womenвЂ™s rights. Recently, Becca Pawling, who heads a womenвЂ™s group in Portsmouth, N.H., explained that opposition is based on the simple fact that вЂњany limitations put on (abortion) is heading backward in time.вЂќ Pro-choice advocates have opposed parental notice and consent laws with unbridled passion that often seems more a matter of blind faith than reasoned principle. The case is seen as a bellwether on the courtвЂ™s shifting majority on abortion as well as the future of parental notice and consent laws in 43 states.Д¬ases like Ayotte are produced by a collision of two powerful interests: The right of parents to participate in major medical and moral decisions affecting their minor children vs. Planned Parenthood, a case concerning the right of parents to be notified on abortions given to minor children. Supreme Court heard arguments in Ayotte v.

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