Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I call up amendment No. 292. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Florida [Mr. Rubio] proposes an amendment numbered 292. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To express the sense of the Senate to enact the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act) At the end of title V, add the following: SEC. 5__. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING CHILD INTERSTATE ABORTIONS. (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that-- (1) laws requiring parental notification or consent prior to an abortion, or in the alternative judicial waiver, are in effect in more than half of the States, but these laws are often circumvented by interstate activity in which minors travel or are transported across State lines to avoid laws requiring parental involvement; (2) abortion providers use targeted advertising to minors across State lines, using avoidance of parental notification requirements as a selling point; (3) when an abortion provider performs an abortion on a minor without parental notification, the provider is likely to lack the complete medical history of the minor, and parents of the minor are unaware of the need to watch for complications that may develop after the abortion when the minor is sent back to her State of residence, far from the provider; and (4) parental notification and parental consent laws are supported by overwhelming majorities of the public in the United States.…”