Still, legislators continue efforts to block birth control and emergency contraception from teens. The American Medical Association , the American Academy of Family Physicans , the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Women's Association , among others. The U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade recognized that all women have a constitutional right to abortion. Restrictive laws deny this right to young women. A substantial number of those who do not, cite fear of physical or emotional abuse as the main reason.
Laws pressuring young women to carry pregnancies to term are dangerous.
Teens are 2.5 times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than adult women. In addition, young women between the ages of 15 and 19 are 24 times more likely to die during child- birth than from legal first trimester abortions. State laws illogically treat a young woman as mature enough to become a mother, choose adoption or make health care decisions for her child or herself but not mature enough to make her own abortion and contraception decisions. Judicial bypasses allow a young woman to forego parental involvement if a judge rules that she is mature enough to have an abortion. This process is open to each judge's bias, and many times a judge will refuse to even hear a young woman's request.