Posted on 06/20/2006 4:59:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
California voters will get a second chance to rule on whether parents should be notified when their daughters seek abortions.
They'll also decide whether tobacco taxes should be raised to pay for a variety of anti-smoking and health care programs.
Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said Tuesday that both initiatives had attracted enough voter signatures to make the November ballot.
They join eight other proposals that previously made the ballot, although a bill moving through the Legislature would move one of those measures, a $9.95 billion high-speed rail bond, to the November 2008 ballot.
The abortion measure would require parents to be notified 48 hours before their minor child had an abortion, unless the parents or a judge waived the requirement. Voters rejected an almost identical measure, Proposition 73, last November with nearly 53 percent of the vote.
The tobacco tax measure would raise cigarette taxes by $2.60 a pack and boost taxes on other tobacco products to raise about $2 billion a year.
The money would be used for emergency medical services, nursing instruction, health insurance for children, anti-smoking programs and enforcement of tobacco laws. It also would be used to research prevention and treatment of certain cancers, heart disease, strokes, asthma and obesity.
The other measures on the ballot include bond measures to pay for transportation improvements, flood control programs, affordable housing, school construction, and water quality and park programs.
There also is a measure to increase penalties for, and monitoring of, sex offenders.
Yes on Parental Notification
No on the tobacco tax
No on any bonds
Its kinda weird. Kids cant drink Coca-Cola out of a machine at school. They cant smoke, but they can have abortions. keep raising those tobacco taxes till you stop people from smoking then you will tax the air they breathe.
You will have to make up that revenue somewhere.
How about we just find the 1 person who doesn't know smoking is bad for them & hand them a pamphlet. Then we don't have to raise any taxes & can save a lot on advertising.
I'm all in favor of the abortion notification thing, but, didn't we vote on this already?
Damn, but I hate it when liberals keep putting the same measure up in front of us time and time again until it barely passes by accident. So I hate to see us doing it.
Parental notification is not being put up by liberals.
Prop 73 should not have failed the first time around..
It was caught up in a crescendo of NOs to all the other measures on the ballot. It was one measure that should have passed but in the Age of Abortion on Demand, enough folks were either turned off by some of the other emasures and didn't vote at all or just voted NO without really seeing what the effect would be.
If they put a few pennies of tax on ass lube, California and New York could balance their budgets.
I read some place that the parental notification measure on the ballot has been reworded and hopefully will pass this tine around.
Many good things to vote FOR this time around, and bad ones to vote AGAINST, like Angelides.
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