Pro-Abortion Judge in Franklin County Appoints Herself Parent of All Pregnant Teens
Published July 22nd, 2008 @ 9:11 am. Tags: abortionColumbus, OH (LifeNews.com) — Several states have dealt with the problem of judges routinely approving requests for a judicial bypass so teens can get abortions without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Now, an Ohio judge has admitted she’s never denied a single request from a teen to get around the parental involvement law.
The National Right to Life Committee indicates 37 states have parental consent or notification laws and 29 are currently in effect, including Ohio.
Most have a Supreme Court-mandated judicial bypass for the rare instances where girls may be victimized by their parents.
Hundreds of hearings take place before judges in counties across the state where girls want to opt out of having their parents informed of their decision to have an abortion.
The bypass provision is supposed to be limited to cases when teens could face abuse from parents, but it has become a rubber stamp process where judges are, now admittedly, approving ever request they see.
Judge Kim Browne, of Franklin County, admitted to the Columbus Dispatch newspaper that she has never denied a teen’s request for a secret abortion.
“I don’t think I’m playing God at all,” she told the newspaper. “That is their choice. That’s the decision they are going to have to live with.”
“Many of them will tell me at least one of their parents knows they are pregnant. We get a lot of out-of-town girls who don’t want to go to a judge in their community,” she added.
The newspaper indicates state taxpayers pay for the legal advice teen’s receive and most are represented by attorneys on a list compiled by pro-abortion groups or the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
So the judge claims she isn’t “playing God”, but what else can you say when she not only take on a role which should be left to parents, but allows immature girls who do not fully understand the consequences of their actions to kill unborn children? This story is truly distrubing.
Save the children that are children, not the acorns that might become a child. Instead of wasting your time protesting in front of clinics, you could be out at shelters helping children.