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Lord, we pray the day comes when abortion is no longer an option in the U.S. Until that time, we pray our rights as parents to be informed concerning our children be protected.
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Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) is leading 17 states in the filing of an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of an Indiana law that requires parents to be informed when their child is granted court approval for an abortion without their consent.

WDRB reported Cameron argues in the brief for Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky that states have an interest in protecting minors who are considering having an abortion.

As Breitbart News reported on January 2, Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill (R) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a measure signed into law in 2017, but never enacted, that requires parents to be notified when a minor who is granted court approval for an abortion, is about to have the procedure.

“Nothing in the U.S. Constitution prohibits Indiana from requiring parental notification when an unemancipated minor is getting an abortion,” Hill said in a press statement. “Even to get a tattoo, a minor in Indiana needs parental permission. Quite simply, parents have rights and responsibilities in the care and upbringing of a child.”

The law specifically pertains to minors who have already received an exemption from a juvenile court allowing them to have an abortion without parental permission. Under the law, parental notice would still be required, except when the court indicates the child lives with abusive family members or some other reason that would be against the best interests of the child.

“An abortion is a medical procedure that could have implications for a child’s future treatment,” Hill said. “It’s an event that could bear on a child’s emotional needs and mental health, and it’s an event that parents need to know about in order to provide nurturing care and guidance.”

The ACLU, however, challenged the law on behalf of Planned Parenthood shortly after it passed and just before it was about to be enacted.

ACLU attorney Ken Falk argued the law “would impose an undue burden on the recognized constitutional right of young women to obtain an abortion.”

A preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the law by a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is still in place and the court declined the state’s petition for a rehearing of the matter by the full court.

“It is better to send this dispute on its way to the only institution that can give an authoritative answer,” wrote Judge Frank Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan.

(Excerpt from Breitbart. Article by Dr. Susan Berry.)

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Judy Beavers
February 2, 2020

I pray that we have parents that promote and instill in their children the abstinence to save the having to think or consider abortion. We need to turn this culture around. Let your children know their value and worth in Gods eyes. To be different.

Felicia Penner
February 1, 2020

Lord God, give wings to this effort of 17 states to reinstate the duty you gave all parents throughout time, to care and protect our children you give us. We pray that this law would not be overturned but put into effect, and that the other states would follow it’s lead. We ask you to protect our children by your mighty right hand, dear Lord, in these last days. In Jesus name, Amen

Darlene Estlow
January 31, 2020

Father you have given children to parents to care for them. I pray the state would stop interfering with this responsibility in abortion. May the court decide for parents so they can protect and care for their children.

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