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Posted on 08/02/2008 1:02:49 PM PDT by wagglebee
Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Abortion advocates in California are going after a state ballot proposition that would allow parental notification on abortions. They are saying the measure's ballot summary should be changed because the teen the law is named after was married at the time of the abortion that killed her.
Named for a 15-year-old girl who died just four days after a legal abortion left her with a torn cervix and fatal infection, Sarah's Law, if approved, will protect the health and safety of young girls.
The California Secretary of State qualified Sarah's Law for the November ballot after backers submitted enough signatures for it and named it Proposition 4.
But California Planned Parenthood advocates have sued state officials saying Sarah was in a common-law marriage with a man from Texas at the time of her death.
The abortion business filed the lawsuit Friday in Sacramento County Superior Court asking that Sarah's story be removed from the ballot materials voters will receive saying it is misleading.
"If you can't believe the 'Sarah' story, there's a lot in the ballot argument you can't believe," Ana Sandoval, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood, told the Los Angeles Times.
Yet Erica Little, a representative of the group backing the parental notification measure, told the Times that it doesn't matter if Sarah was married or not at the time of her death.
Little maintains that teenage girls lack the capacity to make major health decisions on their own and should have parental involvement to learn about the risks and alternatives.
"However, she was still 15 and was not equipped to make medical decisions on her own, whether she was living with the father of her child or not," Little said.
"We will modify the way we present 'Sarah' to be accurate with the information," Little said. "But we don't think the use of her story is marred."
Physicians in Sarah's case said that, had an adult family member been aware that she had undergone an abortion, her life likely could have been spared by prompt medical attention.
A poll last week found California voters are not familiar with the statewide initiatives that will appear on the ballot when voters go to the polls in November.
Of those voters who know about the notification proposal, the poll shows a plurality say they would support it.
The Field Poll found 48 percent of the registered voters polled in the survey would support the parental notification measure while 39 percent would oppose it. Another 13 percent are undecided.
Proponents submitted more than 1.2 million signatures on petitions seeking a third vote on adult involvement in minors' abortions, after Propositions 73 and 85 were narrowly defeated in 2005 and 2006.
If approved, the measure would require an abortion practitioner to notify a parent or other adult family member before performing an abortion on a minor girl under the age of 18.
That's a change from the previous proposals, which required only that parents be notified about the potential law.
Supporters hope it will help the measure get more votes, but some pro-life advocates are not supporting the revised initiative because they don't think anyone other than a girl's parents should be told about her abortion. They say the revised measure would keep parents in the dark while a family member who may not know the girl or her parents well would be notified instead.
Related web sites:
Friends of Sarah - http://www.friendsofsarah.com
And this isn't even on the list of Big Abortion's priorities.
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Whaaa???
How long does it take for a "relationship" to be considered a common-law marriage in Texas?? This was a 15-year old girl!
Of course, abortionists probably want to define a common-law marriage as 24 hours long...
A 15 year old is smart enough and wise enough to find a competent and ethical abortionist, and care for herself after the surgery,...but...her parents are too dumb to know how to use a school voucher or tax credit wisely.
The **only** choice the Liberal/Marxists believe in is the choice to choose death. In every other aspect of our lives their aim to be the controlling tyrants.
7 years is the normal time I think, I guess she was 8 when she moved in with this guy then.
I wonder how old the husband of this dead 15 year old girl was?
So?....The girl dead from abortion is in a common law marriage, but the girls at the FLDS ranch ( who would never feed the abortuary business) are victims of child abuse? Really ?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“But California Planned Parenthood advocates have sued state officials saying Sarah was in a common-law marriage with a man from Texas at the time of her death.”
I don’t think so.
A 15 year-old can’t have entered into a common law marriage.
In Texas, persons under the age of 16 require a court order to be married.
A common law marriage, by definition, isn’t formed through the intervention of courts.
Ҥ 2.401. PROOF OF INFORMAL MARRIAGE...
(c) A person under 18 years of age may not:
(1) be a party to an informal marriage; or
(2) execute a declaration of informal marriage under
Section 2.402.”
One more lie by the baby murderers.
Thank you for doing that bit of research. I wondered how that would be possible.
How could a 15 yo girl be common law married?
If the pro-baby killers are going to go after this proposition on a ridiculous red herring technicality, then CA pro-lifers might as well go for the hail mary. Do what SD did and push for an outright ban on abortions then in the state. It’ll juxtapose their stand against the pro-abortion stand. If it gets defeated, fine, then you take down abortion piece by piece. But I would rather see the measure get defeated as a whole then to fight for a piece and see that get defeated and then you’re back to square one.
Which is why CA pro-lifers should just go for the whole ball of wax.
Great comment! It really takes a lot of mental contortions to be a liberal, doesn't it.....I'll never understand their mindset.
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