Vote Yes on 4 - Read Why I Changed My Mind

A little over a week ago I shared with you that I had changed my Yes on 4 vote to a No on 4 vote, you can read that here. Since I posted about this on my blog, I have been given new information that I did not have at that time, so I am changing my vote back to Voting Yes on 4- Sarah’s Law.

I want you to look at all the discussion that has been going on and you decide how you should vote. I’ll be voting Yes. Below is the response from the Yes on 4 campaign, regarding Robyn Nordell’s commentary I posted recently.

PROPOSITION 4 RESPONDS TO ROBYN NORDELL AND ROY HANSON’S CALL TO INACTION

Proposition 4 is endorsed by the Family Research Council, Americans United for Life, Bioethics Defense Fund, Life Legal Defense Foundation, The Arlington Group, Pacific Justice Institute, pro-Family lawmakers, and many more with reputable standing. YES on 4 deserves the support of California voters who want to protect minors, enhance parental rights, and decrease teen pregnancies and abortions.

Last spring, Robyn Nordell, along with Roy Hanson, launched a campaign to persuade California conservatives that Proposition 4- Sarah’s Law, should not be supported. Neither Ms. Nordell nor Mr. Hanson is a lawyer, as their ill-founded criticisms of Prop 4 make amply clear. Although they claim to have consulted lawyers, they have never named one who is willing to endorse their analyses.

Mr. Hanson and Mrs. Nordell also make the absurd contention that we should not place Prop 4’s provisions in the constitution. At the same time, they warn us about the dangers of California’s “liberal activist” judges. It is precisely because of those liberal activist judges that Prop 4 must be in the state constitution, rather than simply being a statute that the courts can strike down.

These unfounded criticisms are an argument for doing nothing at all and Californians should instead look to the facts on this case.

Proposition 4-Sarah’s Law is a common sense measure that enables voters from both sides of the aisle to find common ground. In fact, one of our campaign chairs is pro-life and the other is pro-choice. They have come together in support of parental notification by a physician prior to performing an abortion on a minor girl. This common sense initiative protects both parents’ rights and the health and safety of minor girls. Here’s how.

Current Law in California:

* CA law allows doctors to perform chemical and surgical abortions on girls of any age without a parent even being notified. Parents are required to be involved in all major decisions, including medical ones, of their minor child - except for abortion. In fact, children under 18 years can’t get an aspirin from the school nurse, can’t get a body piercing, can’t go to a tanning salon, without parental consent. Minor children cannot go on a school field trip without parental permission, yet a stranger can take a girl from school for an abortion without a parent knowing.

YES on Prop 4 will Protect the Health and Safety of Minor Girls:

· Studies prove notification laws result in reduced teen abortions, pregnancies, & STD’s. 34 other states with notification laws prove pregnant teens do not seek so-called “back-alley abortions” or head to Mexico. When given the opportunity in court, groups opposing YES on 4 could not identify a single case of danger or harm to minor girls.

· Involving families in this serious decision gives them an opportunity to help young girls understand their options. Parents can also provide the medical history of their daughter. Pregnant minors deserve to have the support of loved ones rather than strangers with a financially driven agenda at a facility that stands to profit from abortion. An informed parent can get prompt aftercare for hemorrhage, infection, and other possibly fatal complications that may result. Families are left to cope with the physical, emotional, and psychological aftermath - even if they didn’t know the abortion took place.

Who is Sarah?

· Sarah was a 15-year old Texas girl, when she had a secret abortion. Within days a high fever set in. No one knew why or how seriously ill she was. By the time she was hospitalized and doctors determined she had a deadly infection from a torn cervix, it was too late. Sarah died. Had someone in her family known about the abortion, Sarah’s life could have been saved. “Sarah” identified herself as a 15-year-old single girl when she scheduled her abortion. Texas has since implemented parental notification (Sarah’s real name was not used in order to protect her identity).

Sarah’s Law Protects Minors from Sexual Predators:

· Well over 50% of California teens are being impregnated by adult males. These men are sexual predators, who encourage or coerce young girls to have secret abortions, aided by abortion providers in their cover up of evidence of statutory rape and sexual predation.

· Proof of this collusion is evidenced by the fact that in the past 15 years, no abortion provider in California has reported suspected sexual abuse of a minor resulting in prosecution of the perpetrator.

· Because families don’t know, crimes go unreported, and sexual predators roam free.

The Bottom Line: Prop 4/Sarah’s Law is common sense, mainstream, and non-partisan.

For a copy of our complete response to Roy Hanson’s analyses of Prop 4, contact info@yeson4.net .

Visit www.YESon4.net for more information.