Does your state law require parental consent or notification to perform an abortion?

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**I live in California where there is no parental notification or parental consent law for minor girls to have abortions. This means that my under aged daughter could be raped repeatedly and have multiple abortions and I would never be aware of it. :banghead: **

**Without parental notification and parental consent laws it makes it easier for incest and molestation to go undetected. :nope: **

A relative of my husband works in a clinic that used to perform abortions. They had girls as young as twelve :nope: coming in to have abortions. Many times these young girls were brought in by men in their mid twenties :nope: and many times these same girls came in more than once for an abortion. :banghead: Because of privacy laws in the cases of abortions statutory rape laws go right out the window.

WHAT IS MOST UNBELIEVEABLE IS:

**IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA **
**YOU NEED PARENTAL CONSENT **

TO GET YOUR EARS PIERCED (or any other piercing)
TO GET A TATOO
TO GO ON A FIELD TRIP
TO GET A SHOT (immunization)
TO HAVE ANY SURGERY (except abortion)
**IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA YOUR DAUGHTER CAN BE COUNSELED AND ADVISED BY EMPLOYEES AT HER PUBLIC SCHOOL ON HOW TO HAVE AN ABORTION. THE GOVERNMENT WILL PAY FOR THE ABORTION. A SCHOOL EMPLOYEE CAN LEGALLY DRIVE YOUR DAUGHTER TO AND FROM THE ABORTION CLINIC:nope: . YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS AS A PARENT IN THE EVENT THAT YOUR DAUGHTER HAS AN ABORTION.:banghead: **

There is a Parental notification initiative that will hopefully get on the ballot. They are gathering signatures for this initiative. If you live in California or know of someone who lives in California please click on the link below.****

parentalnotification.org/PNIupdate.cfm
 
I hope I voted correctly. In Texas, parental notification is required, not consent. A parental consent bill was in the legislature in 2003 but I believe it was one of the bills that was left hanging when the Democrats went MIA (they went out-of-state to make sure there wasn’t a quorum so a lot of things didn’t get to a vote). They don’t meet again until this year.

I always wondered about this. We are talking about minors here. If you, as a parent, are “notified” that your daughter intends to procure an abortion, why would you let her out of the house after that?
 
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I hope I voted correctly. In Texas, parental notification is required, not consent. A parental consent bill was in the legislature in 2003 but I believe it was one of the bills that was left hanging when the Democrats went MIA (they went out-of-state to make sure there wasn’t a quorum so a lot of things didn’t get to a vote). They don’t meet again until this year.

I always wondered about this. We are talking about minors here. If you, as a parent, are “notified” that your daughter intends to procure an abortion, why would you let her out of the house after that?
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There’s an idea! The initiative they’re trying in pass in California requires that the parents of the pregnant girl get 24 or 48 hour notice, I can’t remember. I wonder if the parents of these girls could forcibly keep their daughters in the house after being notified and then claim that they were trying to protect their daughters and GRANDCHILDREN?

Grandparents and Fathers of the unborn need to have a voice when it comes to their genetic offspring.
 
****When a Parent Doesn’t Know ****

**Mother Not Told of Thirteen-Year Old’s Abortion **

**BY ANNE KNIGHT **

**On Friday morning, July 30, **2004, Diana Lopez, a divorced mother of four young children, was awakened by a phone call. The call was from a staff member at the middle school that her two oldest children attend, Memorial Academy in San Diego. Lopez recounted that the staff member told her that her 13-year-old daughter had been taken to the hospital because she was bleeding. Lopez states that when she asked what had happened to her daughter, the staff member’s response was that they didn’t know and that her daughter’s boyfriend’s mother had come to take her to the hospital.

Lopez’s 14-year-old daughter then called Lopez, revealing that her 13-year-old sister was about to get an abortion at Planned Parenthood. “I just started screaming,” Lopez recalled. Lopez spoke to the staff member again and asked what she should do and how she could find her daughter. Lopez said that the staff member replied that she didn’t know what to do and suggested that Lopez contact the police.

Lopez says that she was not aware that her daughter was pregnant. She later learned that the mother of her 13-year-old daughter’s boyfriend (also 13) had orchestrated the abortion. On the morning that the school called her, the boyfriend’s mother had arranged to pick up Lopez’s 13-year-old daughter at the school and take her to Planned Parenthood for the abortion. The 13-year-old was then four months pregnant and had had laminaria inserted. As she walked with her older sister to school that morning, she began experiencing severe cramps and bleeding. Upon arriving at the school office, her older sister asked to use the phone, intending to call the boyfriend’s mother.

The 14-year-old told the school that her 13-year-old sister was to be taken to Planned Parenthood that day by the boyfriend’s mother for an abortion. Lopez asserts that, because of the 14-year-old’s explanation to school staff, the school was aware that the 13-year-old was scheduled to have an abortion at Planned Parenthood before they called her.

While a school nurse offered to check the 13-year-old, the 14-year-old called the boyfriend’s mother, who soon arrived at the school. According to Lopez, the boyfriend’s mother told the school that she was going to take the 13-year-old to the hospital. Lopez said that the school did not ask the boyfriend’s mother for identification or check to see if Lopez had listed her as an emergency contact person. Lopez says that the boyfriend’s mother is not authorized to pick up her children in case of an emergency at the school.

Since Lopez doesn’t have a car, she asked a school staff member to take her to the clinic where her daughter was. Her 14-year-old had learned that this was the Planned Parenthood surgical abortion mill on First and Grape streets, in downtown San Diego. After being dropped off there, Lopez demanded that the abortion be stopped.

According to Lopez, the receptionist replied that the clinic couldn’t release any information to her because it was a confidential matter; nothing could be done, and Lopez just needed to wait until her daughter came out from the surgery. Lopez’s stunned response: “What? She’s only 13 and I’m her mother! I want to be there with her!” Lopez also spoke to a supervisor, who, she said, threatened to call the police when Lopez got into a heated discussion with the boyfriend’s mother.

Lopez said that Planned Parenthood sent her daughter home with painkillers, antibiotics, and birth control pills but did not speak with Lopez regarding aftercare instructions. Lopez insists that had she known her daughter was pregnant, she would have urged her to have the baby. Help other families avoid such a tragedy. Support the Parents’ Right to Know initiative. Call (866) 828-8355, email Janet@ParentsRight2Know.org or visit website www.ParentsRight2Know.org.
 
Florida voters amended our constitution in November of 2004 and added a provision requiring parental notification to have an abortion.
ARTICLE X SECTION 22. Parental notice of termination of a minor’s pregnancy.–The Legislature shall not limit or deny the privacy right guaranteed to a minor under the United States Constitution as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court. Notwithstanding a minor’s right of privacy provided in Section 23 of Article I, the Legislature is authorized to require by general law for notification to a parent or guardian of a minor before the termination of the minor’s pregnancy. The Legislature shall provide exceptions to such requirement for notification and shall create a process for judicial waiver of the notification.
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I’m not happy about the judicial waiver though. I’ve read judicial waiver decisions from other states with similar laws. In one case, a teenage girl who wanted to have an abortion but didn’t want to notify her parents was asked a serious of questions in court either by the judge or her attorney. The questions were of the nature of,
“Do you want to have an abortion?”
“Do you know what an abortion is?”
“Do you understand that possible complications that might arise from having an abortion?”
To each of these questions she answered, “yeah” or “sure”. The judge found that based on these answers, she was mature enough to get the abortion and waived the parental notification requirement. This exception will swallow the rule.
 
As far as I know, Maryland does not require any parental censent, but it doesn require parental notification. That can be bypassed by notifying a grandparent or sibling, or getting a note from a doctor. …oh…but no pepto bismol or tylenol unless there is a SIGNED note from the parents saying it’s ok. A phone call will not do :mad: in that case…dispicable
 
I live in Washington, one of the most retarded states in the Union. No parental consent of any kind is needed.
 
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