White House Promotes 'AbortionFinder' Tool Helping Minors Skirt Parental Notification
By Philip Wegmann - RCP Staff
The memo came from Health and Human Services, and the White House passed it along on official letterhead. “Know Your Rights: Reproductive Health Care,” read the title of the document that represents the latest effort by the Biden administration to make good on the president’s post-Roe promise to “do all in my power to protect a woman’s right” to an abortion.
The memo in question points the public to AbortionFinder.org, an online tool that provides pregnant women information on where they can terminate their pregnancy. The website also directs minors “15 or younger,” RealClearPolitics was first to report, to resources for bypassing parental notification laws.
“Some states require people under 18 to involve a parent or guardian when getting an abortion,” a pop-up window announces to minors seeking an abortion. “If you need to avoid involving a parent or guardian, contact the If/When/How Judicial Bypass (JB) Helpline for information about getting a judicial bypass.”
That hotline and the accompanying online Abortion Finder are products of Power to Decide, a pro-abortion nonprofit funded, in part, by federal grants from the Department of Health and Human Services. And for now, the White House is leaning on allied outside organizations like these to preserve access to abortion.
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