A bid to allow parents the right to know if girls are having abortions will be launched by a Conservative MP later.
Angela Watkinson MP said parents should know if under-16s have an abortion or are given contraception to help them protect their children.
Similar laws in the US are said to have resulted in a 15 to 20% drop in abortion rates for minors.
Last year a mother from Manchester lost her High Court bid to stop girls being given confidential abortion advice.
Ms Watkinson argued that the government's teenage pregnancy strategy was not deterring under-16s from having sex.
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Professor David Paton, of Nottingham University, said legal systems requiring parents to be told before an abortion is performed on an under-age girl, had resulted in a drop in pregnancy, abortion and sexually transmitted diseases.
He said there was no evidence to suggest that in the US, under-age girls had turned to "back street abortionists" as a result.
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Even if I were completely pro-abortion, I would still want to know about any surgery performed on my children. I don't understand how a child has to bring home consent forms for everything from ear-piercing to putting up artwork at school, but for something like an abortion, there is no such requirement. It seems incredibly lop-sided. Most girls who have abortions under their parents' noses are doing it to escape accountability to their parents. That's all it is. People think children are not accountable to their parents for their actions: but they are. I often wonder about these people who are okay with letting their kids have (this so-called) surgery without their knowledge or consent. Are they so not plugged in that they are perfectly willing to renounce their parental rights?
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