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Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College, 141 E College Ave, Decatur, GA 30030 (e-mail: mzavodny@yahoo.com).
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I appreciate McNulty and colleagues taking the time to respond to my research and continue the debate on this important issue. They begin by noting that the policy requiring parental consent for medical contraceptives applied only to women aged 17 years and younger, but the study I reported on examined births to women aged 18 years and younger. The study examined the fraction of births to women aged 18 years and younger instead of women aged 17 years and younger because gestation takes 9 months, and contraceptive policy at the time of conception is more relevant than policy at the
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