[Lurking Libertarian]

He voted against parental notification! I am not an abortion-only voter, but if he voted agains that, WHY THE HELL IS HE EVEN BEING CONSIDERED FOR THE POSITION????? He would not vote to allow PBA to be banned even!

He did not vote against parental notification. The Texas legislature passed a law requiring parental notification unless the minor seeking an abortion could prove one of 3 exceptions. In several cases, he voted that the minor had not proven any of the exceptions; in one case, he voted that the minor had proven one of the three. He said in his opinion that opposition to abortion was not a ground to disregard what the legislature had written.

[rwfromkansas]

Thanks for the info.....some others have set me straight also. It makes me angry that the media would lie like that when they know he did not vote against the law itself, just believed some more evidence was needed to determine whether this girl should be required to notify her parents or not.