{"id":225464,"date":"2020-06-11T18:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T23:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=225464"},"modified":"2020-06-11T20:07:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T01:07:18","slug":"austin-city-council-taxpayer-minors-secret-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/austin-city-council-taxpayer-minors-secret-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin City Council uses taxpayer dollars to fund group helping minors get secret abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, the Austin City Council in Austin, Texas, unanimously passed a measure to provide taxpayer funding to an organization that circumvents state law to allow abortionists to commit abortions on teenage girls without parental consent.<\/p>\n

It is illegal for a minor to undergo an abortion without parental consent in Texas, and it is also illegal<\/em> as of September 2, 2019, (through Senate Bill 22<\/a>) for a Texas state government entity to enter a transaction that would support an abortionist or abortion business. This law was born after the Austin City Council gave Planned Parenthood a government-owned building for just $1 a year in rent for 20 years.<\/p>\n

Now, the Council has approved a contract which provides up to $150,000 to Jane’s Due Process, an organization which helps underage girls to obtain abortions, skirting state laws.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Want to help fight human trafficking? Pass parental consent laws for underage girls seeking abortion.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Texas Values, a statewide pro-life organization, testified<\/a> before the council on the matter.\u00a0Mary Elizabeth Castle, Policy Advisor for Texas Values, told the Council:<\/p>\n

[Austin] City Council has again exercised political posturing to see how far they can go before they can break the recently passed law SB 22 that bans contracts between government entities and abortion providers. At a time when many lives are being lost to COVID-19 and people are losing their jobs due to the financial crisis, the city of Austin chooses to give money to an organization that persuades little girls to end lives and to get abortions behind their parents’ backs.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jane’s Due Process believes parental consent laws are a “major barrier<\/a>” for teenage girls, but in reality, parental consent can help protect minors from sexual abusers. Planned Parenthood, which received essentially free rent from the city for two decades, is also well-known for aiding and abetting sexual abusers<\/a> and traffickers by neglecting to report potential statutory rape as required by law.<\/p>\n