Tomorrow the House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on The Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA), which makes it a federal offense to knowingly transport a minor across a state line with the intent that she obtain an abortion, in circumvention of a state’s parental consent or parental notification law. One of the people testifying is Marcia Carroll. Just two weeks ago her 14-year-old daughter was taken from Pennsylvania to New Jersey for an abortion. Get this: on Christmas Eve the girl told her parents that she was pregnant, and decided that she wanted to keep the baby. Then her 15-year-old boyfriend’s stepfather and grandmother pressured her to have an abortion and then coordinated her transportation to New Jersey and met her at an abortion clinic. The girl was upset and had second thoughts, but the stepfather and grandmother told her they would not take her home if she didn’t have the abortion. She did, and is now, reportedly, suffering intense grief. Stepdad and Granny sound like peaches, no?!
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Jack Fowler is a contributing editor at National Review and a senior philanthropy consultant at American Philanthropic.
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