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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Monday, October 17, 2005

Prop 73

On the "Adding to the Teen Birth Rate Initiative":
In states without parental involvement laws, researchers found 61 percent of girls under 18 discuss their abortion decision with a parent, according to reports compiled by UCSF's Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy. But a third or more do not, fearing physical harm, other abuse or being tossed out of the house.

Gerald Wheeler, a 17-year-old Santa Rosan, predicts some teens would run away rather than confide in parents.

"Kids would be so afraid, ... it could lead to illegal abortions," he said. "It could harm your body forever."