Michael New e-mails:

You might be interested to know that on Thursday the New England Journal of Medicine released a study that examined the impact of the parental notification law that was enacted in Texas in 2000.
Interestingly, the methodology of the researchers was similar to the methodology used by The New York Times reporters. The researchers compared the change in the abortion rate among minors under 18 to the change in the abortion rate among 18 year olds — who would be unaffected by the law.
Not surprisingly, the New England Journal of Medicine finds that parental involvement laws *are* effective. The abortion decline for minors was larger than the abortion rate decline for non-minors.
Furthermore, the data indicated that in percentage terms, the abortion rate decline was the largest for the youngest girls.
In short, the most prestigious journal in medicine agrees with both the findings in my Heritage Foundation studies and the majority of academics who have researched this issue.

Here’s the AP write-up of the NEJM news.