Calif. pro-lifers change strategy for 3rd parental notification vote

[The Straight Story]

ELECTION 08: Calif. pro-lifers change strategy for 3rd parental notification vote

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP)--Unless she has a parent's permission, a teenage girl in California can't go on a school field trip, can't get a body piercing, can't go to the tanning salon and can't even get an aspirin from the school nurse.

She can, though, get an abortion -- without her parents even knowing.

California pro-lifers hope to change that Nov. 4, when voters will consider a constitutional amendment known as Proposition 4 that would require an abortion doctor to notify a parent -- or another adult family member -- 48 hours before performing an abortion on a teen girl. The proposal also has a judicial bypass allowing a judge to grant permission.

Proposition 4 is considerably weaker than some laws in other states -- it requires notification, and not permission -- but it nevertheless would be a significant step forward for the pro-life movement in a state where parental notification proposals suffered close defeats in 2005 and 2006. It's been dubbed "Sarah's Law" in memory of a 15-year-old Texas girl who died in the hospital four days after her cervix was torn during an abortion her parents knew nothing about. Hospital officials said had she been admitted immediately, instead of four days after the procedure, she would have survived.

http://www.baptistpress.com/BPnews.asp?ID=28877

[GodlessBiker]

1. I tell ya. If an Amendment goes down to defeat, they should have to wait 5 years before putting it

or a similar Amendment on the ballot again. This yearly fiddling with the Constitution over the same issues is ridiculous.

[catzies]

2. This is the 3rd time rich conservative out-of-staters have tried this in CA

The voters rejected it twice already.

But they keep trying and we have to spend money & waste resources on this crap every time they try. :mad: