Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “this legislation, and I am proud to be a cosponsor of it today, the Ros-Lehtinen Abraham legislation, is extraordinarily…”

“this legislation, and I am proud to be a cosponsor of it today, the Ros-Lehtinen Abraham legislation, is extraordinarily important and I think it is fitting and just that we adopt it today and, hopefully, with a very, very large bipartisan margin. Poll after poll after poll shows that the overwhelming majority of the American people support the right of the parents to be notified if their children are going to have abortions. And as the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Mrs. Myrick) has stated, 20 States have adopted laws to require parents to be notified. But an industry has developed, in effect, to void, to evade, to dodge those laws passed by the sovereign will of the people of 20 States who have said we want there to be parental notification. So what we are saying is, no, no, they should not be able to, by subterfuge, by plan, evade and dodge those laws. We are saying no, no, they cannot create an industry that, in effect, even in writing, in publications such as the phone books, the yellow pages, an industry that says evade the law, dodge the law in one State, come across the border, and the law will not apply. That is something that is very serious. Obviously, the underlying topic that is dealt with here is very serious as well. If there is a child with a problem, the parent should know about that child's problem, to work with that child in finding the most just, the most humane solution precisely for that child.”