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Posted on 05/06/2005 12:09:50 PM PDT by STARWISE
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Parents would be told when their minor daughters seek abortions under a bill the Legislature passed Friday.
A 96-14 vote in the House sent the measure (CS-HB 1659) to Gov. Jeb Bush, who had signed a similar parental notice bill into law in 1999 only to have it blocked by the courts.
Lawmakers were widely expected to pass a new parental notice law this session after voters approved a constitutional amendment in November to address the legal obstacles. But the House and Senate developed parental notice bills that had significant differences.
The two chambers worked out their differences Thursday and the Senate passed the bill 36-3, sending it to the House to vote on the final day of the two-month session.
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That girl was a ward of the state, I believe that her mother's rights had been terminated. If so, as unfortunate as this is, the girl's mother has no say.
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rothflho parental rights? What do you think this is mid-evil Europe?
I suppose this bill has the typical judicial bypass so that a judge can listen to a pathetic teenager tell him how mean her parents are so she can't tell them. This never made any sense to me. If the girl was REALY being abused shouldn't she be put into protective custody? And since they usually aren't really 'going to kill her' as she thinks they are, the judge should hand her a telephone to call her parents and tell them the truth. He can reassure her that she is safe in his courtroom and when they cool off, they'll come get her.
If the law is eventually signed, get ready for the Liberal Activists Judges to render it invalid.
Hi Joe -- I think I did that.
Here is the scoop on this.
FL did have a prior parental notification law by the FL appeals courts used the constitutional privacy amendment to say that such a restriction of abortions violated the FL constitution. (the privacy amendment was inserted in part in anticipation of the day when Roe vs. Wade was overturned and abortion returned to the states. FL enumerated privacy where the USSC created it out of thin air.)
SOOOOO, the citizens of FL passed a constitutional amendment which trumped the privacy amendment with respect to juvenile abortions. Soooo, the prior reasons could not be used to keep parents in the dark. In addition it does provide for judge review of a child who wants an abortion but then must PROVE the mother AND father would harm her if they are informed.
It is now up to the republican majority of FL to start appointing conservative judges. The cronies of the FL Bar Judicial Nominating system must be dumped.
I'll never understand the "logic" of the left.
Good question. I haven't heard anything other than that this addresses the parents right to be notified about an impending abortion, not whether or not the parents of the pregnant minor have the right or authority to stop one.
I find it depressing that irresponsible parents don't know that their kids are having sex until the government informs them that the kid wants an abortion.
It is actually a two step legislating process.
Previous efforts at parental consent were shot down so we have gone to the interim step of parental notification.
Once "A" law regading abortion limitation is upheld then the rest can be done piecemeal since judges will not allow any outright prohibitions.
Oh no! Abortionists don't want us to think of it as a MEDICAL procedure, because then their slaughterhouses would have to comply with reasonable standards for medical facilities. In my home state of MD, the murderous fiends are fighting tooth and nail to keep from having to meet the same standards as medical facilities.
So basically they want a back-alley type atmosphere in which to kill babies? And I thought RoevWade was supposed to end back-alley abortions!
It's simple.....they're insane.
She already had the abortion. Probably paid with tax dollars. . . .
And one of my personal favorites:
They fell from the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
You are right. Parental notification for abortion should be the default condition. If a liberal state wanted to grant minors the right to abortion without parental consent, that should require legislative action.
life groups make on common mistake about abortion advocates, for them it is not about baby or even a fetus. They view the ability to stop a pregnancy as a means of stopping men from using women. Their goal in mandating abortion is saying that THEY control life. It only exists at their political whim.
It is all intertwined in the Martha Burk, bull dyke, political agenda of removing family from the polical speech. It is the only way ugly women become important.
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