Abortion has been a controversial issue in the United States since the passing of Roe v. Wade, a Supreme Court case making abortion legal nationally. As of recent, the argument has evoluted to discuss if there should be a mandate forcing those under eighteen years of age that plan to receive an abortion to notify their parents. There are those who debate that it should not be mandatory for a young girl to notify her parents, typically refer to themselves as “pro-life”, and those that believe that it should be mandatory for the girl’s family to have knowledge of her upcoming procedure, usually known as the “pro-choice” side of the argument. In “Counterpoint: Mandatory Notification of Parents in Advance of an Abortion for Girls Under 18 is Wrong…show more content… Wade was a monumental Supreme Court made in 1973 (Lee & Bourassa, 2016), decision making abortion legal in the United States. In their argument, the authors provide unelucidated premises to support their position. In the article, Lee and Bourassa state, “... these debates have been specifically promoted by groups opposed to abortions on moral or religious grounds--not on medical grounds” (Lee & Bourassa, 2016, p.2). Without providing clarification to evaluation, this claim is unlikely to be true. If they were to have provided evidence as to how the pro-life side of the argument, this premise would have provided evidence, their argument would not have lost its credibility. Another instance of this occurs when the authors jump to assume the intentions of pro-choice side once more. As mentioned, the authors begin with stating that almost all parents that endorse their daughters remain abstinent would force their daughter to carry her child to term if she were to become pregnant (Lee & Bourassa, 2016 p.4)? Again, the authors provide little to no evidence to back up their premise. Not all parents that would prefer their daughter to remain abstinent would be absolutely opposed to the thought of her receiving an abortion. Furthermore, there is no statistic to back up this claim. However, since Lee and Bourassa did not provide evidence to support a premise their argument was essentially
