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Strengthening Families, Protecting Life and Promoting Health > Protecting Innocent Human Life > Parental Consent
We call on the Legislature to require parental consent for any form of medical care to minors. We urge electoral defeat of judges who through judicial activism seek to nullify the Parental Consent Law by granting bypasses to minor girls seeking abortions. We support the addition of a legislative requirement for the reporting of judicial bypasses to parental consent on an annual basis to the Department of State Health Services and such reports shall be made available to the public. Further, we encourage the Congress to remove confidentiality mandates for minors from family planning service programs operating under Title X of the Public Health Services Act and Medicaid.
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This plank grossly overshoots any reasonable proposal.

"any form of medical care" is ridiculous: it would require explicit parental endorsement of any act of emergency care, first aid, and simple nurse care at schools.

The rest of this plank is terribly misguided: Our quest to limit abortion must be based on conservative principles. It must not use Democrat tactics like increasing government interference, changing the operation of our justice system, or interfere with parental or patient confidentiality.

The main point of this plank is to address the abortion issue, so it is redundant with the main abortion plank.

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We urge change of the Internal Revenue Code to allow a religious organization to address issues without fear losing its tax-exempt status. We call for repeal of requirements that religious organizations send government any personal information about their contributors.
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This plank is delusional.

Religious organizations generally have 501(c)(3) status. 501(c)(3)s may engage in issue advocacy. This is specifically allowed under current tax law. What they may not do is participate in "any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office" (link) or engage in a substantial amount of lobbying (link).

Churches are not required to file IRS Form 990. In fact, they are generally exempt from tax-related filings.

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