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CA girls: Prop 4
How many times are we going to have vote down a propostition on parental notification??
I am scared that prop 4 isnt getting the publicity that it should and that it is going to sneak passed the voters this election. Very scared. It is actually polling postive right now.
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Re: CA girls: Prop 4
I need to read up on these props.
This is an issue where my husband and I disagree, so this ought to be interesting.
What are your thoughts on parental notification? I'm torn, and this is definitely an area where I'm open to persuasion.
I'm not in CA, but I have thoughts anyway!
About 12 years ago, there was an initiative on the ballot here in WA that would have made workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation illegal. Being that we're a pretty blue state, any other year it would have passed.
However, the same month there was a gun-control initiative on the ballot, and that brought out all the gun nuts. (I use that phrase lovingly, as I am a pro-gun rights person myself.) Needless to say, the aforementioned initiative failed.
This may happen for you CA girls in regards to Prop 4. It wouldn't explain why the polls are down now, but I suppose you'll know one way or another by November 5.
We also had a parental notification initiative and it did not pass. I did a lot of long, hard thinking about it, and I cam back to this: it's a slippery slope bewteen parental notification and overturning Roe vs. Wade. I'm normally not a fan of the slippery slope argument, but look what the last 8 years have brought us; in 2008, many of us are actually fearful that it could be overturned. 12 years ago, I never, ever would have considered the possibility.
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My HUGE issue with parental notification is that there are many kids that are not lucky enough to have a good relatioship with their parents or even lucky enough to have GOOD parents. By forcing kids to tell theri parents that they are pregnant and need/want to have an abortion, you could be putting these kids at risk, not only at the hands of their parents but at the hands of themselves.
?The last thing a 15 year old scared pregnant girl needs is to have to go to court to defend her right to have an abortion without telling her parents.?
This is exactly the issue! Spot on analysis. And also, what about cases of rape by a parent, a sibling, an uncle, or a family friend? Aye. A hornet's nest. This prop. is horrible and it needs to be rejected (again!).