In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I have people like Planned Parenthood intentionally not following the law, that's where the state will be involved.
In addition the bill would expand an existing law 'conscience clause' that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.
Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.
Remember that before 'Roe v. Wade' was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that's what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.
The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.
Abortion is child mortality.
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.