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Please, please stop making this about abortion. It's not about abortion, never was, never will be.

Since the Supreme Court has handed much authority over abortion back to the states, a governor's views on abortion ARE relevant -- especially the governor of the most populous state in the union.

I'm sorry you don't like it, but the slaughter goes on and a lot of people DO care about those babies.

There are a lot of life-related issues that can and will come up. The governor signs a budget every year that contains money for the ongoing killing. There are a whole slew of new life issues, that the Democrats can hand him to make things even worse. His views on the topic are very, very relevant.

Yea keep arguing your California abortion issue nonsense...

http://www.cacatholic.org/respect4life/abortionlaw.html

In the 1981 California Supreme Court decision, Committee to Defend Reproductive Rights v. Myers, the Medi-Cal ban on funding of abortions (because of the federal ban on Medicare funding) was ruled unconstitutional because California's privacy law was not as narrow as that of the U.S. constitution. The justices in that decision found that the restriction (of not being able to afford to pay for an abortion) to be "an obstacle" to the exercising of the expressed constitutional right. The 1997 Supreme Court decision on parental consent for abortion, American Academy of Pediatrics v. Lungren, also found that a minor's right to privacy superseded her parent's rights as guardians.

............Women, including minors, who can not afford to pay for an abortion can request Medi-Cal services, thereby requiring taxpayers to subsidize her decision...........

For more than 30 years abortions have been legal in California. Before 1973 there was an attempt to regulate access to an abortion, but after the passage of the "privacy amendment" and the Roe v. Wade decision, "abortion-on-demand" was allowed in California. NOW AS OF SEPTEMBER 5, 2002, "ABORTION-ON-DEMAND" AS A RIGHT IS AFFIRMED IN CALIFORNIA's STATUTE BOOKS.

From a recent CA Field Poll........... for what it's worth.

Field Poll Looks At Abortion Issues
July 30 (AP) — A poll released today says about two-thirds of California voters want to see existing abortion laws left alone or made easier to get.
The Field Poll released this morning says that 30 years after the Supreme Court's landmark abortion ruling, nearly half of California voters want no changes in the existing law.
Another 21 percent would like to see abortion laws relaxed.
In 1991, 33 percent of those polled supported making abortions easier to obtain. Conversely, 22 percent of voters wanted to make abortions tougher to get when polled in 1991, compared with 26 percent in the newest poll.
The breakdown along party lines showed 25 percent of Democrats polled said they would like to see abortions made easier to obtain, compared with eight percent of Republicans who responded.
Of those polled, 47 percent of Republicans felt abortions should be harder to obtain, compared with 15 percent of Democrats.