Prop 4 – WAITING PERIOD AND PARENTAL NOTIFICATION BEFORE TERMINATION OF MINOR’S PREGNANCY

My Summary: From the LA Times summary: “Amend the state Constitution to bar abortions by unemancipated minors until 48 hours after a physician notifies the minor’s parent or legal guardian. Permit notification to certain adult relatives if a doctor reports the parent to law enforcement or a child protective services agency.”

My Opinion: I think this is common sense. A complex and potentially harmful procedure shouldn’t be done on someone’s underage child without the parent even knowing about it. I could go on and on about how I don’t think abortions should be available to minors at all, but that’s not even up for debate. What is being voted on is whether or not parent’s have the right to know if doctor’s are performing operations on their young daughters.

Of course the argument against this is that young pregnant women will fear their parents finding out, and then they will get a coat hanger and shove it up their wee wee and accidentally kill themselves. Or if they’re slightly more intelligent, they’ll find a guy named Smooth in the back of a tattoo parlor who will do it for them. Honestly though, and this might sound harsh, but if someone is stupid enough to do that, in the not too distant future they’ll probably end up getting themselves killed anyways do to sheer stupidity. Let’s see if that ruffles any feathers. (I’m giving it all I got!)

Bottom Line: If I have a daughter some day, and in the unfortunate event she became pregnant and went to try and get an abortion, I at least deserve to know. The government doesn’t get to make decisions for our families.

I am voting YES on Prop 4.

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