Prop 4

You know, with Prop 8 being everyone's concern, it is overstepping some other important propositions on the California ballot for Nov.

Prop 4 is a about providing a waiting period and parental notification for terminating a minor's pregnancy.

The fact that minors can have abortions now with no one knowing is just insane! An abortion is a a HUGELY emotional/physical proceedure and to think that children can go through this without telling anyone is nuts. I don't think that it needs to be the parents that know (it is preferable though), but the law should at least make it that doctors and healthcare providers try hard to work with the minor in finding someone over the age of 18 that the minor knows and trusts to help them through this process. The person would then be able to help in the after care. Maybe someone over the age of 18 wouldn't want to be named because if something happens during the after care and the minor dies or has major issues, the doc can say they turned the minor over to the care of this over 18 year old and then lawsuits happen (like if the parents then try to sue). The whole situation is horrible.

I am all for more education to minors of cause and effect, consequenses and all that abortion entails. I'm not saying show the mutilated babies, I am just saying more conversations with older women who had abortions and what their feelings are looking back. Etc.

So to me, this can't just sneak past that people think that minors don't need to tell anyone. Someone NEEDS to know. This NEEDS to be law. Unwanted pregnancies are going to happen, abortions are going to happen (and I'm definitely not pro abortion, that's why I tout education!) but I totally think that minors should not be going through something like this by themselves.

If I could just wrap my arms around all those young girls in this situation...