House to vote on The Teen Endangerment Act today

The House is set to vote today on The Teen Endangerment & Grandmother Incarceration Act, which passed the Senate in July.
The Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (personally, I like our name better) would make it a federal crime to bring a minor across state lines to get an abortion. So even if a grandmother, aunt, or other caring adult is in a teen girl’s life—forget it. Jail for you!
According to NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Act “would impose an impossibly complex patchwork of parental-involvement laws on women and doctors across the country with the goal to curb young women’s access to private, confidential health services.�

The bill proposes a variety of new mandates on women, families, and doctors. Among other things:
(1) The bill forces doctors to learn and enforce 49 other states’ laws, under the threat of fines and prison sentences.
(2) In many cases, CIANA forces young women to comply with two states’ parental-involvement mandates.
(3) In some cases CIANA requires a doctor to notify a young woman’s parents in person, in another state, before abortion services can be provided.
(4) In some cases, even if a parent travels with his or her daughter to obtain abortion care, the doctor must still give “notice� to the parent and wait 24 hours before providing the care.

Uh huh. This is about protecting teens? My ass.
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