[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 91 (Thursday, June 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H4830]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            SUPPORT H.R. 1218, CHILD CUSTODY PROTECTION ACT

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, at my alma mater, Southwest High 
School in Miami, a student with a headache did not receive an over-the-
counter aspirin to relieve her pain because the school nurse did not 
have a signed parental medical waiver; a teenager who wanted to pierce 
her ears was not able to because she did not have a parental consent 
form; and a school field trip accompanied by teachers and chaperones 
left behind a student because he failed to get a parent's signature. 
How ironic is it that friends and peers of these same teenagers are 
undergoing dangerous life-altering and potentially fatal medical 
procedures without parental consent or even notification.
  Yesterday, the Committee on the Judiciary approved my bill, H.R. 
1218, the Child Custody Protection Act, which will prevent nonparental 
adults who deliberately circumvent State parental consent or 
notification laws so that someone else's daughter or perhaps the 
teenager whom they have raped could obtain an abortion.
  Young girls face complications and perhaps even death from botched 
abortions that their parents may never know about. This bill will put 
an end to the exploitation of young, immature, vulnerable girls. I hope 
the House will soon favorably vote on the Child Custody Protection Act.

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