Protecting Privacy, Teen Safety, and Abortion Rights

In the span of four years, California voters three times rejected a ballot initiative that would require doctors to notify a pregnant teen's parent before an abortion. Propositions 73, Proposition 85 and Proposition 4 all proposed to amend the state Constitution to reverse the state Supreme Court ruling in an ACLU lawsuit that teenagers have fundamental rights to decide whether to end an unintended pregnancy.

The defeat of each of these initiatives shows that Californians continue to care more about the health and safety of our young people than about ideology.