House Panel Discusses Circumvention of Parental-Notification Laws

 
 
 

March 8, 2012
House Panel Discusses Circumvention of Parental-Notification Laws

by Karla Dial

A group of experts testified this morning before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution about the necessity of a bill that would make it illegal for anyone to get around state parental-notification laws by taking a girl to another state for an abortion.

The Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (H.R. 2299) has 153 cosponsors in the House, and would levy fines and prison sentences on anyone taking a minor to another state in order to avoid telling her parents or getting their permission to have an abortion. It also would require abortionists to make every effort to give a girl’s parents at least 24 hours notice, unless the teen’s life is at stake.

“Regardless of whether the girl choose to continue or terminate her pregnancy, parental-involvement laws have proven desirable because they afford greater protection for the many girls who are pregnant due to sexual assault,” said Teresa Collett, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis who’s testified before Congress several times. “By insuring that parents know of the pregnancy, it becomes much more likely that they will intervene to insure the protection of their daughters from future assaults.”
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