Hello everyone.
Evelyn here,
The following is from this week AGNews the newsletter of the Florida's Attorney General Charlies Crist. I place it here as the informative message that it is and not as an personal endorsement.
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Over the past week, the Attorney General’s Office has won two court
rulings that will go a long way to ensuring that important decisions
continue to be made by those in the best position to make them.
First, late last Friday a federal court ruled that the 2005 Florida
Parental Notification of Abortion Act is constitutional and can be
implemented as intended by the Legislature and the people of Florida.
The law was enacted just months after the voters approved a
constitutional amendment to require that parents or guardians be
notified whenever an underage girl planned to have an abortion. The
amendment and the implementing law are based on a very simple premise:
If parents must be notified when their children have their tonsils
removed, they certainly should be notified when a daughter is
considering an abortion.
Recognizing that Florida’s constitution grants certain legal
protections to minors, the amendment dealt solely with notification,
not approval. It means parents should be allowed to play their proper
and traditional role by advising their daughter based on their
assessment of what is in her best interests.
Under the amendment, parents can help a girl evaluate the medical
risks and the physical and psychological consequences of her decision,
as well as the quality of the medical care she would receive. All of
these are important considerations.
In upholding the validity of the law, the federal court allows Florida
parents to help their daughters with this life-altering decision. And
it allows the will of the people of Florida to be carried out.
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Evelyn out.
