Planned Parenthood is on the attack in California, against the parental-notification initiative on the upcoming November special-election ballot. PP says: “Parents rightly want to be involved in their teenagers’ lives, but should their daughters be unable to talk to them, for whatever reason, most parents want their teens to be safe. That’s much more important to caring parents than the government forcing their teens to inform parents of problems when they feel they can’t.” It is good that 14-year-olds always know what is best for them and can always gauge their parents’ reaction. I’m not going to pretend all parents act ideally in such situations, but we are talking about children–two of them, as it happens. Parents have the right to know and sometimes (shockingly) the pregnant teen will even be much better off because they had to tell. (I ranted more about parental-notification here.)