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waiver of parental notification or expeditious notification to a juvenile judge.
In case of an emergency, prior parent notification would not be required.
After years of passage by the House of Delegates, and defeat by a hostile Senate committee, a true parental notification bill passed both Houses in a carefully constructed, compromise form that fulfilled the constitutional requirements for parental notice laws upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991.
Since the Governor did not see fit to fulfill his campaign pledge to sign the parental notification bill, we are once again committed to legislate only sound, reasonable laws to protect both young girls and the compelling interests of their parents.
This new bill, however adds many new twists. The most telling aspect of this new guise is that legislators previously opposed to genuine parental notification laws are now sponsoring this new counterfeit notification bill. Although the bill is presented as “parental notification,” that title is a misnomer of great proportion.
First, the bill does not apply to all minors, but only to girls under the age of 1(5, a change soundly rejected by the House, the PTA, and manv family advocacy groups in 1992.
Secondly, it would require notice to a guardian, adult family member, “counselor,” or minister over the age of 18. Counselor is defined in the bill in such a way that a profitable abortion clinic copld hire a staff “counselor” to be on duty to acknowledge that a counselor had been^notified.” Clearly, the fox would guard the henhouse.
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