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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — Four years ago,
legislators wrote into state law
that an unmarried, minor girl
had to notify a parent before she
could get an abortion, or she
could get a judge to allow her to
bypass that requirement.
On Wednesday, the Senate
gave preliminary approval to
tracking how many of those
cases get to court and how often
the girls are denied or allowed to
avoid telling their parents before
getting the abortion.
Anti-abortion groups hailed
the bill as a step in tracking a
super-secret process in which
not only the girls’ names are
protected, but the judges presid
ing over the cases are, too.
Joe Krai, legislative director
of Texas Right to Life, which
supports the bill, said the data
would be the public’s only way
to gauge what is happening in
the secret process.
“People want to know,
Texans want to know, how their
judicial bypass is being imple
mented,” Krai said.
Abortion rights groups, how
ever, warned the move could
make judges the targets of anti-
abortion campaigns, disrupting
a process they say should be
devoid of politics.
“This Legislature is a petri
dish of anti-choice,” said Kae
McLaughlin, executive director
of the Texas Abortion and
Reproductive Rights Action
League. “(The judges) will have
to choose between politics and
the young woman’s story who’s
sitting in front of them.”
(The judges) will
have to choose
between politics and
the young woman’s
story who’s sitting in
front of them.
— Kae McLaughlin
pro-choice lobbyist
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Kim
Brimer, R-Fort Worth, said the
state has almost no way to track
comprehensive data on how
often these cases go to court or
whether some judges are rou
tinely granting or refusing
bypasses.
“We’re missing the boat on
courts who may be roadblock
ing,” Brimer said, “or which
may be rubber stamping.” He
said the data could also help
track trends in teen pregnancy.
Under the bill, the Texas
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Supreme Court would set the
rules for gathering and releasing
the information to the public.
Brimer said the names of the
girls and the judges would
remain confidential and that the
information that is released must
not be able to identify a particu
lar judge.
He said the data could be
released in geographic areas
such as appeals courts districts
or even larger. The information
could not be released on a coun-
ty-by-county basis, he said.
Several senators questioned
Brimer’s motives and whether it
was an attempt to curtail the
judicial bypass. Sen. Jeff
Wentworth, R-San Antonio,
tried but failed to amend the bill
to make any release of data on a
statewide basis instead of
regional.
“I’ve heard from judges who
are concerned this will be used
in political campaigns,”
Wentworth said. “I don’t think
that’s appropriate.”
Krai, however, said the confi
dentiality provisions would
make that all but impossible.
“You’d be hard-pressed to
find a judge under these condi
tions,” he said.
The Senate agreed to con
sider the bill on a 21-9 vote
before giving preliminary
approval on a voice vote. A
final vote of approval is expect
ed on Thursday.
Texas Teacher tapes mouths shut
SOUTHLAND, Texas - At least two parents in
the Garza County community of Southland want
the school district to fire a sixth-grade teacher
they say taped shut the mouths of several stu
dents who wouldn't stop talking in class.
“From what I gathered from my son, he and
some other boys were talking and they had been
talking all class period, and the teacher got upset
and began taping students' mouths,” Mary Lea,
mother of an 11-year-old boy, said in a story in
Wednesday's online edition of the Lubbock
/Wanche-Journal.
“With my son and another child, she wrapped
masking tape completely around their head,” Lea
said.
Pam Phillips said the teacher also taped her
son's mouth shut.
Both women said their children have asthma.
“My child can't breathe through his nose,"
Phillips said. “Whenever he has his asthma
attacks, he definitely can't.”
Upset parents went to the Southland school on
Tuesday and spoke with the teacher, Lea said.
"She said to us,'I'm sorry. This will never hap
pen again. I made a mistake,’“ Lea said. “She's
in that classroom with my child, and I want her
gone.”
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