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on parental consent for abortion, American Academy of Pediatrics v. Lungren, also found that a minor's right to privacy superseded her parent's rights as guardians.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.
In other words, to make abortion illegal in California:
1. California constitution needs to be amended. 2. Roe v. Wade needs to be overturned.
3. The majority of the California legislators must be pro-life
4. California must elect a pro-life governor.
Now I get it. Electing a pro-life governor will make the difference.
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