The Assembly Judiciary Committee will hear testimony on AB405 on Friday April 10. The meeting starts at 8am and parental notification is second on the agenda putting us at around 9am. If you are near Carson City, please come to the hearing and sign in in favor of AB405. If you are in Las Vegas, if you can please take time to stop by the Grant Sawyer Building and register your support. If you want to watch online, click here: http://nvleg.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?event_id=4498
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AB405 Parental Notification Lives Another Day – Keep up the Pressure
Although the AP reported on April 7 that AB405 – Parental Notification for Underage Girls Seeking an Abortion – would go to an interim study (dead for two years), heroic efforts led by Assemblyman Ira Hansen resurrected the bill. The Republican Assembly Caucus should be thanked for recognizing that the time has come for Nevada to protect teens, pre-teens and their parents.
On April 8, AB405 was re-referred from HHS to Judiciary.
A hearing will occur in the Assembly Judiciary Committee, Friday, April 10. All bills must be voted out of committee by midnight that very same day. This is a very quick turn around and it is imperative that all parents, grandparents and citizens who see the benefit of parental involvement in abortions sought by girls under the age of 18, call, email and/or visit the legislators listed below.
ACTION –> CALL, EMAIL, VISIT THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
YOUR MESSAGE: Thank you for giving AB405 a hearing. Please vote for a parent’s right to know about their underage daughter’s abortion. [As you develop your personal message, remember this is a bipartisan issue that does not cut pro-life/pro-choice. This is about parents fulfilling their parental rights and responsibilities]
Chair Ira Hansen, 775-684-8851 Ira.Hansen@asm.state.nv.us (Be sure to thank him for saving the bill and taking it into his committee)
Erv Nelson, 775-684-8833 Erv.Nelson@asm.state.nv.us
Michele Fiore775-684-8829 Michele.Fiore@asm.state.nv.us
David Gardner 775-684-8549 David.Gardner@asm.state.nv.us
Brent Jones 775-684-8573 Brent.Jones@asm.state.nv.us
P.K. O’Neill 775-684-8825 PK.Oneill@asm.state.nv.us
Victoria Seaman 775-684-8847 Victoria.Seaman@asm.state.nv.us
Jim Wheeler 775-684-8843 Jim.Wheeler@asm.state.nv.us
Elliot Anderson 775-684-8835 Elliot.Anderson@asm.state.nv.us
Nelson Araujo 775-684-8599 Nelson.Araujo@asm.state.nv.us
Olivia Diaz 775-684-8553 Olivia.Diaz@asm.state.nv.us
James Ohrenschall 775-684-8819 James.Ohrenschall@asm.state.nv.us
Tyrone Thompson 775-684-8569 Tyrone.Thompson@asm.state.nv.us
Where Does Governor Brian Sandoval Stand on Parental Notification?
Many have asked where our pro-choice governor stands on parental notification for underage girls seeking secret abortions. Governor Brian Sandoval supports parental notification laws like AB405. From 2013: https://web.archive.org/…/htt…//www.briansandoval.com/issues
“Abortion: I am pro-choice; I oppose partial-birth abortion, late term abortion and federal funding for abortion. I support parental notification prior to a minor receiving an abortion and am against transporting minors across state lines for abortions.”
Should a parent be involved…what’s your opinion?
The Lack of Parental Involvement: Real Consequence
The personal experiences of Dawn Ravenell, Rachel Ely, Myoshi Callahan, Holly Trimble, and Teresa Wibblesman Fangman are a testament to the very real tragedy that a decision made without the benefit of parental involvement can become for a teenager who is confronted with the frightening and stressful fact of an unexpected pregnancy. Their experiences illustrate all too well some of the physical, emotional, and psychological dangers to the adolescent who makes the abortion decision without any parental involvement.
Dawn Ravenell, a 13-year-old girl from Queens, New York, died tragically in 1985 after undergoing a legal abortion. According to the abortion clinic records, Dawn awoke from the anesthesia during the middle of the abortion Continue reading
Parental Involvement Laws – State by State
What are the laws in other states concerning a minor girl seeking an abortion?
Where the Bill Stands Today…Your Action Necessary
Nevada girls of any age can obtain an abortion without a parent or guardian EVER KNOWING. Can you imagine a 13 year old girl undergoing a surgical procedure involving anesthetics without those who know her medical history EVER KNOWING? Nevada currently protects predators, not the most innocent among us…young girls.
AB405 is a commonsense bill that recognizes that a parent or guardian should be involved when a girl under 18 is considering an abortion, just like in any other medical or surgical decision. If enacted, one parent or guardian would have to be notified by the abortion provider prior to an underage girl’s abortion. No consent is required. Bypasses are written into the law for medical emergencies and the rare situations where physical abuse by parent is feared. The bill is written to withstand judicial challenge.
Unbelievably, there are those in the legislature who would side AGAINST parents and AGAINST their underage daughters. Whose side are they on? Sexual predators? Abortionists? Human traffickers?
James Oscarson, Chair of Assembly HHS Committee: Mr. Oscarson has the SOLE decision as to whether this bill is EVER heard. If it is not heard and voted out of his committee by this upcoming Friday April 10, it is DEAD for another 2 years. How many secret abortions will happen in the next two years? How many lives will be changed irreversibly?
Email James.Oscarson@asm.state.nv.us this weekend with the following message:
Subject Line: GIVE AB405 a Hearing and Vote
Message: Protect parents and underage girls. Do not let AB405 die without a hearing and vote. Nevada parents should be involved in their underage child’s medical decisions.
- Parents have their daughter’s best interest and more importantly their medical history…no one else does
- Abortion is a surgical procedure. A parent must give CONSENT to all other surgical procedures performed on a child living under their roof. Why should abortion be different?
- This is a common sense law. There is judicial bypass for those RARE occasions when parents are abusive
- This is a means to protect girls from predatory sex abusers and human traffickers
- A child under 18 does not have the ability to weigh the future consequences of decisions. As such, underage children have commonsense parental involvement regulations regarding tattoos and piercings, and in the State of Nevada are prohibited from using a tanning bed. Notification for a surgical procedure is the very least we can do to protect Nevada’s young girls
- A child under 18 cannot miss school without parental involvement, yet she can get a surgical abortion
- Parents should be involved in ALL medical decisions – including abortions
- Nevada is rightly concerned with the proliferation of sex trafficking especially among its youngest victims. Why protect the abusers and human traffickers and allow them to cover up their crimes?
Parental Notification…Why Is It Important?
In Nevada, a girl under age 18 can’t get a cavity filled, or an aspirin dispensed by the school nurse without a parent knowing, but a doctor can perform an abortion on a young girl without informing a parent. Abortion is a surgical procedure involving anesthesia and having the potential to cause life-long and sometimes life-ending consequences. Why is parental involvement imperative?
- Parental notification laws provide commonsense protection for teen and pre-teen girls.
- It is an undisputed fact that adolescents develop physically before fully maturing psychologically. They simply cannot make decisions that fully consider future consequences AND rarely know their full medical history. In fact, what physician would consider an unemancipated underage girl capable of giving true informed consent?
- A teen’s parent is her biggest advocate and her best protector.
- A teen’s parent has important medical information about the teen – often information the teen doesn’t know or won’t remember during a crisis.
- A majority of Americans support parental involvement. A 2011 Gallup poll found 71% of Americans – including 72% of women and 61% of Democrats – favor PARENTAL CONSENT laws, higher standard than Nevada is considering.
- On a daily basis, older men exploit young girls and use secret abortions to cover up their crimes.
- States which have laws protecting parental rights have experienced real reductions in pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases among young girls.
- Why should parents expect profit-making abortion clinics to have their daughter’s best interest at heart.
- A middle school or high school girl can’t get an over the counter medication like tylenol or benadryl at school without parental PERMISSION, yet she can get a surgical abortion without a parent KNOWING about it.
- How can a parent provide proper and necessary medical care, if they are completely unaware of the procedure and the need for concern?
The History of Parental Notification for Underage Girls Seeking Abortion in Nevada
In 1985, the Nevada Legislature passed NRS442.255 Parental Notification for underage girl seeking an abortion by a vote of 51-18. Upon enactment, it was immediately challenged by Planned Parenthood and the Reno Abortionist. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found it unconstitutional in Glick v McKay in 1991. The Attorney General of Nevada, Frankie Sue Del Papa did not choose to challenge the ruling.
In 1995, the Nevada Legislature tried unsuccessfully to fix the statute, but in the midst of heated abortion politics, the attempt fails.
In 1997, Supreme Court handed down Lambert v Wickland that upheld a similar notification bill. In the case, the Supreme Court mentions the faulty reasoning in Glick.
On March 17, 2015, the 78th Nevada Legislature introduced Speaker John Hambrick bill, AB405, a simple bill that removes the old NRS442.255 and inserts new language that achieves the same end – involving a parent in a surgical or medical decision.
- AB405 requires one parent or guardian to be notified 48 hours before an abortion on girls under 18.
- AB405 provides for a judicial bypass – to be achieved within 5 judicial days – in the rare event that the parent or guardian is deemed a potential physical risk.
- AB405 retains the same emergency medical bypass existent in current Nevada law for all other surgical and medical events that applies to ALL underage children – boys and girls alike. In an emergency, she will get emergency treatment.
- AB405 protects the privacy of all girls and their families.
The Abortion Industry and Planned Parenthood challenged this law in 1985. They have fought parental involvement laws in every state for the last thirty years. Let’s hope they will recognize that parents are their children’s best advocates rather than continue to beat the drum that parents are more dangerous than child predators and human traffickers?
Download and read AB405. Don’t believe the lies.
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