Thank you, Mr. Comartin. I am aware of the fact that there are these other requirements, including consent. My point is simple. Other than the transition law, I don't understand how it is that we will be protecting 14- and 15-year-olds. At the end of the day, whether there's attorney general consent or indeed consent of parents in a particular community, how are we advancing protection of 14- and 15-year-olds with regard to a decision that quite frankly they're not capable of making, notwithstanding these other protections or however you would refer to them?
I think it's a philosophical issue, and I think it is a section of the bill that somebody is going to use, and at the end of the day they're going to use it in such a way that a child who is 14 or 15 years old, who is not even close to making these kinds of decisions, is going to be violated. Those are my concerns, and I think we're going to see it happen.
Obviously I support this bill; I support the passage of the bill with or without it. I'm asking the committee at large to remove that section. That's the point I'd like to make.