Parental Notification Of Abortion Bill Clears House

[TexasTowelie]

The House approved a bill adding rules to parental consent and notification of abortion…even as some Democrats raised new issues with the measure.

Underage girls can go to court to bypass their parents and get consent for an abortion. This session’s legislation says if the judge grants that consent, the judge must also decide whether the girl’s parents should be notified.

That’s scaled back from the bill’s original version, which didn’t make that notification optional.

But Democrats on the House floor pointed to a part of the bill that says if the judge denies a girl’s request for consent, the court is required to tell the parents. Rep. Tom Washburne (R-Evansville) says that’s exactly the intent.

Read more: http://indianapublicradio.org/news/2017/04/parental-notification-of-abortion-bill-clears-house/

[Alpeduez21]

1. Daddy, I have to abort the baby you gave me.

[LisaM]

2. Ugh, too true.

I'm tired of these freaks.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. "American Crime" a tv series is highlighting the issue

how a sex worker who is underage, who is being used by a pimp, could get an abortion in CA but not NC.

Men telling women what to do with their bodies, no matter the age, is bullshit and i wish those men would fuck off and .....

[samnsara]

4. 30 years ago i took a 15 yr old to get an abortion....

...if she was forced to tell her parents she would have carried thru with the suicide she threatened and she wouldn't be here today to be the wonderful young woman.....teacher.. that she is today.