California - Prop 73, another attack on liberty

In California's next election, there's a proposition on the ballot to require young pregnant women's paren't be notified before they get an abortion.

At first blush, perhaps this seems like a not so bad idea, but it's an insidious attack on a woman's right to choose. Once again, like the 3rd trimester abortion ban (an evil bit of legisltation if there ever was one), it's not the issue of what these nutters are writing on the prop, but it's the very specific wording within the legislation the erodes a woman's right to choose. Besides, it's only got to get in the way of girls who have accidentally gotten pregnant but are afraid to tell their parents. And where will that lead? Back alley abortions again.. Sick, primitive, inhumane, and degrading. What kind of people would try to do something like this. Sad, insecure, vindictive little people.

They are framing their legislation with wording that is granting the civil rights of a citizen to a fetus, which is not a citizen, it is just a growth inside of a citizen. But they are doing this to take away a person's ability to govern their own body. We need some guideline of when we consider a person to be a citizen or an individual human being at the very least. Because - think about it - the brain of a 1st or 2nd trimester fetus is very undeveloped. A dog, or a cat, heck, even a frog's brain is more developed, is capable of more reasoning, is more self aware, is more sentient and intelligent, that that of a 1st or 2nd trimester fetus. So - the only way they are going to be able to justify granting civil rights to a 1st or 2nd trimester fetus is if dogs, cats, pigs, chickens, cows, sheep, frogs, mice, rats, you name it are also all granted the civil rights of a citizen.