California - Proposition 85

Another win for women's rights : Californians reject parental notification for abortion

As reported in San Francisco Gate:

STATEWIDE
100% of precincts reporting

Yes 3,035,043 45.9%
No 3,577,051 54.1%

Read the proposition as it appeared on the ballot:

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Submitted by liza on 9 November 2006 - 9:46am.
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Words to live by How do we know? I mean, what you're saying is fine. But how do we know that that's actually the law? I mean there are a lot of people who absolutely in very good faith would say that isn't competing harm. They would say that the competing right for the life of the fetus is more important than the possibility of the mother having children in the future herself. See, there are people in good faith on both sides of this argument. And so how do we know that ... your competing harms defense is going to do for this particular woman what a health exception would do? — Justice Stephen Breyer Subscribe Buttons