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Friday, September 26, 2008

Field poll: Prop. 4 parental notification on teen abortions - San Jose Mercury News

How would you vote ? Would it not be better to counsel them into getting their parents involved instead of mandating it. Somehow I tend to think that mandating it might push them to termination through unsafe methods which is something we MOST definitely want to avoid.
Also interesting the effect that the largest minority group is having on the law of the land.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10562363?nclick_check=1 --- Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo sees a significant factor at play this year. "If there's a shift going on, it's coming from the Latino voters," DiCamillo said. "Because this is a presidential election, Latino voters will constitute a larger proportion of the turnout than was true two years ago." Latino voters, who are overwhelmingly Catholic, are expected to be 17 percent of the electorate in November. They appear to be favoring the measure 62 percent to 31 percent — a 31-point margin. In 2006, the margin among Latinos was 22 percentage points, DiCamillo said. The initiative would require parental notification, not consent. When a girl younger than 18 asks a doctor for an abortion, the doctor


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