San Antonio, TX ping.
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You might also mention HB1212 which includes Parental Consent for abortion and has a provision to at least track the judicial bypasses in order to see where and why they are done. Currently, the only way to guess is to find out how many counties and lawyers are being paid for the bypass procedings. Frank Corte of San Antonio has a bill, HB 17 that will require collection of non-identifiable information to track the judicial bypasses under the current law of parental consent (the abortionist must send a certified letter or talk to a guardian on the phone).
The judicial bypasses cost the State at least the county court fees, plus the lawyers' and "guardian ad litum" fees for each case. And, yet a girl 14 years old and above, can go anywhere in the State, shop for a favorable judge (aided by PP and Emily's List), have a court appointed guardian and a lawyer paid, give the abortionist a false address (if for some reason she doesn't just lie about her age or just have the Dr. call someone she says is a parent) and there is no accounting for what is done as far as follow up for infections, or the incest or abuse that the judge determined qualified the girl for the bypass.