Dave Camp: “I think that schools are an inappropriate place to dispense morning-after pills, so I rise in support of the Coburn…”

“I think that schools are an inappropriate place to dispense morning-after pills, so I rise in support of the Coburn motion to instruct. I think more importantly, not only current law allows this to be done without parent's consent, this is done without parent's knowledge. I think to have in place a law that says, all parents are bad parents. If parents know that their daughter is expecting a child, that would be bad for their daughter. I think we definitely need to make this change, and I think that is probably why a majority of the Senators supported this change when this issue came up in the Senate. Mr. Speaker, I think that the motion to instruct is a start, because parents should be the first to know if their daughter is pregnant, not the last. There are so many things parents should and would want to do, and I do not think we can have in Federal law a situation where we just assume the worst about every parent in this country. That is why I strongly support this motion to instruct, and I urge everyone to vote for it.”