Notification Bill

LifeNews

The Senate plans to vote on Thursday on a measure that would help uphold parental involvement laws that require notifying or getting permission from a teenager's parents before she can have an abortion. The bill is designed to prohibit taking teens to other states for secret abortions without parental knowledge.

A leading pro-life group says Senate Democrats are holding up the bill and a vote on the legislation can't proceed unless a cloture vote is taken to end debate.

According to a letter to senators from the National Right to Life Committee obtained by LifeNews.com, "Democratic leadership is currently obstructing the bill by refusing to agree to the motion to proceed, thereby making this cloture vote necessary."

Since a vote to defeat the cloture motion would kill the parental involvement bill, NRLC says that it will score the cloture vote as a pro-life vote in its annual scorecard.

The Child Custody Protection Act would make it a federal crime to take a teen to another state for an abortion that circumvents the parental involvement laws of the girl's home state.

Senator Santorum, along with 38 other Senators, is sponsoring this bill.