Tennessee is one of over a dozen states that currently protect unborn babies from abortions. But that doesn’t stop people from taking teens to other state for secret abortions without their parents knowing.
A new measure a Tennessee committee signed off on would put a stop to that concerning practice. Here’s more details:
The Tennessee House Health Committee passed legislation that would make it a criminal offense for an adult who is not the parent or guardian of a minor child to assist the minor with concealing or obtaining an abortion.
Before House Bill 1895 (HB1895) was introduced, Representative John Ray Clemmons (D-Nashville-District 55) requested that the final vote be taken by a roll call.
The legislation was then presented by Representative Jason Zachary (R-Knoxville-District 14), who stated that this is a “parental rights bill.”
The bill passed with 16 representatives voting in favor and 7 voting against.
Voting against HB1895 were Representatives Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville-District 51), John Ray Clemmons (D-Nashville-District 55), Yusuf Hakeem (D-Chattanooga-District 28), Caleb Hemmer (D-Nashville-District 59), Darren Jernigan (D-Old Hickory-District 60), Bo Mitchell (D-Nashville-District 50), and Sam Whitson (R-Franklin-District 65).
The bill will move on to the House Finance, Ways, and Means Subcommittee but the legislation has not yet appeared on their calendar upon publication of this article.
Leading pro-life group Tennessee Right to Life told LifeNews it supports the legislation:
The Underage Abortion Trafficking Act, HB1895 sponsored by Representative Jason Zachary, (R-Knoxville) seeks to protect pregnant underage girls and their parents. The proposal would make it unlawful for any adult to recruit, harbor or transport an underage pregnant girl for an abortion procedure or procure abortion chemicals in order to conceal it from her parents or guardian.
Under current Tennessee law, there would be no way to punish this activity.
The importance of this legislation has become even more urgent as the abortion industry has come up with ways to get around the laws in pro-life states like Tennessee. Recently, Planned Parenthood was caught admitting that they assist underage girls (or adults associated with them) to skirt state laws and transport pregnant girls without the knowledge or consent of their parents (see here).
Although aborting children is a crime under most circumstances in Tennessee. That is not the case in neighboring states like Illinois and Virginia. The abortion industry is funneling minor girls into these states for surgical or chemical procedures without their parents’ knowledge.
This law would make that a crime of unlawful abortion trafficking of a minor, a Class C felony. It would also create civil liability for this action.
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Parents have a right to be involved with their daughters’ well-being. The abortion industry has no right to transport or obtain dangerous chemicals for underage girls while keeping their parents in the dark.
Does this sort of thing happen to teenagers? The answer is clearly yes.
Last month, the Planned Parenthood abortion business and other abortion clinic representatives were caught on camera admitting that they take teens to other states for secret abortions without their parents’ consent.
The new Project Veritas expose’ shows Emily, Kansas Planned Parenthood Managing Director admitting, “We do help people get to these places.”
And in another clip, the undercover journalists asks if he needs any documentation about his relationship to a teen exploited for an abortion, and the abortion clinic staffer says no.
PV Journalist: “I don’t have to provide any documentation that I’m related [to the minor], right?”
Nurse, Maple Women’s Health Center, Dallas, Texas: “No.”
“In Part Two of our investigation into the nation’s largest abortion provider, undercover camera has further revealed Planned Parenthood’s nationwide scheme to traffic minors across state lines for secret abortions,” Project Veritas tells LifeNews. “An investigative journalist met with healthcare workers at various clinics in Texas, as well as Planned Parenthood employees in California and Kansas, to further investigate the elaborate lengths the abortion giant will go to facilitate, and help conceal, abortions for minors.”
“As revealed in Part One, Planned Parenthood’s abortion-trafficking services include setting up hotels, arranging inter-state transport, providing doctor’s notes to the child’s school, and even paying for the abortion are all common services they offer to minors without parental knowledge. In Part Two, Texas nurses revealed to our journalist that Planned Parenthood is the go-to collaborator when minors in abortion-outlawed Texas desire to terminate a pregnancy without parental consent,” it added.
In this new video, one Planned Parenthood staff admits they the abortion business does secret abortions on teens in a way “parents won’t find out.”
In addition, Emily, a Planned Parenthood Managing Director in Kansas, confirms to Project Veritas that her clinic frequently sees out of state patients and the organization also helps arrange transport for these abortions: “We mostly see Texas and Oklahoma patients. If you want to go further, you got to go to Illinois. You got to go to Colorado. I think the latest one is Washington, DC, and we do help people get to these places.”
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