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In 1986, an upstart public health researcher named Arline Geronimus challenged the conventional wisdom that condemned the alarming rise of inner-city teen pregnancies. While activist minister Jesse Jackson and health care leaders were decrying the crisis of “babies having babies” as a ghetto pathology, Geronimus contended that teenage pregnancy was a rational response to urban poverty where low-income black people have fewer healthy years before the onset of heart problems, diabetes, and other chronic conditions.

In a front-page article on March 6, 2006, The New York Timesattempts to make the case that parental involvement laws areineffective. However, better data, better analysis, and a morethorough reporting of the academic literature leads to the exactopposite conclusion: namely, that parental involvement laws havebeen effective at reducing the incidence of abortion among minors.

In early April, two district courts came to different rulings on the same case regarding mifepristone, a widely-used abortion pill. In Texas, a U.S. District Judge ruled the FDA’s earlier approval of mifepristone should be considered unlawful. Yet in Spokane, Washington, another U.S. District found that federal officials may not restrict access to the pill...

When Dr. Arline Geronimus first introduced the theory in 1990, her ideas were derided and largely ignored. Now, people are starting to listen.

Dr. Arline Geronimus first introduced the theory in 1990 and her ideas were derided and largely ignored. However, people are now starting to listen to her theory.