Sacramento Bee Opposes Parental Notification Measure
California voters during last year's special election "understood that a constitutional amendment cannot impose trusting, supportive parent-teen relationships and communication, so they rejected Proposition 73," which would have required parental notification before a minor could receive an abortion, a Sacramento Bee editorial states.
The Bee "encouraged voters to oppose last year's measure," and it does "the same with Proposition 85," a similar measure on November's ballot that "would put abortion in the California Constitution for the first time."
California has made "great strides in reducing teen pregnancies -- and that is where people on all sides of the abortion debate should be able to find common ground," according to the editorial (Sacramento Bee, 9/12).