Dads' Rights Rhetoric Enters Debate on Abortion Parental Notification Bill

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'True, one of the opponents of the bill, Democratic Sen. Karen Keiser, has been saying that girls are at risk of abuse if forced to tell parents about issues related to their sexuality. "There have been documented cases where young women have been abused, thrown out of the house and in rare cases actually killed," she reiterates to SW. But she says she's never put the blame specifically on dads.

"This is crazy," she says after hearing Backholm's rhetoric. "Young women have also been thrown out of the house by their mothers. It's not a gender issue."

Backholm's way of framing the argument might, however, be a clever way of tapping into the dads' rights movement, which has a host of grievances that spark ardent and bitter feelings, including the way fathers are treated in family court.'