The Senate voted tonight to make it a crime to take a pregnant girl across state lines to obtain an abortion without her parents’ knowledge, handing a long-sought victory to the Bush administration and abortion opponents.

The bill would help about three dozen states enforce laws that require minors to notify or obtain the consent of their parents before having an abortion. It would bar people — including clergy and grandparents — from helping a girl travel to another state to avoid parental-involvement laws. Violations could result in a year in prison.

Now this is an interesting one. If a girl “finds herself pregnant,” and she’s in a state that requires parental notification, no one can help her get across state lines into a state without such a requirement. She can go to another state by herself, and that’s okay, no penalty according to the article.

Note the list of people who are barred from helping a girl get across the state lines – grandparents and clergy. Two things: 1. why do they even put clergy in there? How many members of clergy in any denomination would put themselves in a situation of transporting an underage girl across state lines to get an abortion? 2. Read the whole article, and you’ll find no mention of the sperm donor being barred from taking her across state lines. Nothing new here…the thought that a father even exists never enters into the minds of the pro-abortion crowd.