A California state assemblyman has proposed a bill that would force every public or private school to place the phone number of a Planned Parenthood or similar clinic on student identifications.
The bill, AB 624, would take effect July 1, 2010, and require that schools place on every ID for grades 7-12 a sexual assault hotline, a domestic violence hotline, and a “sexual or reproductive health” hotline.
That latter requirement is at issue. “Reproductive health” is a phrase used by pro-choice advocates to reference multiple services, including abortion. Planned Parenthood’s website says its goal is to deliver “vital reproductive health care.” It is the nation’s largest abortion provider. The United Nations’ definition of “reproductive health” includes abortion.
Democratic Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel is the bill’s sponsor.
Liberty Counsel, a religious liberty group, says the bill violates the First Amendment.
“This outrageous California bill proposed by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel is an attack on the First Amendment by forcing every California student to become a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood,” said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “Requiring students to promote the phone number of the largest abortion mill in the nation is repulsive and unconstitutional. When will the California legislators…
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