Abortion Waiting Period and Parental Notification Ballot Prop Is Back Again

If the proponents of the proposed “Parental Notification, Child and Teen Safety, and Stop Predators Act”  has been submitted to the California Attorney General for preparation of title and summary. This is one of the first steps towards this proposed law landing on the ballot for the 2012 election.  If it makes it to the ballot, and it it will, it will be the 4th time in 7 years that this law has been put in front of California voters.

You can go back and read what we had to say about the 2008 version known as Prop 4.

We have not run our full analysis of the law yet but we predict it will be almost identical to the previous versions.  Once again they are pushing their agenda under the guise of “stopping predators.”  The logic is that if a minor is impregnated by a sexual abuser, the abuser will take the child to a doctor and force her to get an abortion.  Once again, we lay down the gauntlet for anyone to present evidence that this law will prevent this.   We will gladly give you the space to blog about it.

But you can’t blame the proponents of the measure for trying, it’s a tried and true way to get conservative voters out to the polls. And even though they’re  0 for 3, it’s been fairly close every time.  Look at the numbers (From Ballotpedia):

California Proposition 4
		Votes	Percentage
Yes		6,071,863	48.0
NO		6,570,777	52.0%
Total votes		12,642,640	100%

Pretty consistent all the way around, even with the relatively higher voter turnout of the 2008 election.  Analysis on the law coming your way when we feel like it.