{"id":895,"date":"2005-11-02T05:31:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T05:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:26","slug":"no_on_propositi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"“No” on Proposition 73"},"content":{"rendered":"

So over the next few days, I’ll go through my thoughts on the California initiatives.<\/p>\n

I’ll start with what is, for me, the most difficult decision – Proposition 73<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The gist of the proposition would require that pregnant minor girls would have to have parental consent to get an abortion, or lacking that, consent from a juvenile court.<\/p>\n

A tough one for me. <\/p>\n

I have no daughters, only sons. I’ve paid for some abortions in my time, and while I’m not tormented by those memories, neither am I exuberant about them. Personally, I subscribe to the “legal, safe, and rare” formulation where abortion is concerned.
\nBut – to set out something which I think closely parallels abortion (although abortion is to me far more complex, because it represents the intersection with three sets of rights – the woman’s, the to-be-born fetus’, and the father’s) – I also believe strongly in the individual right to own guns. And in the notion that that right may be limited by reasonable regulations.<\/p>\n

One of the reasonable regulations on gun ownership says that minors may not buy guns, or in many states, possess them without an adult’s presence.<\/p>\n

I don’t think that’s a bad thing. And yes, I know about the idyllic days when kids would bring their 30-30 to school on the opening day of deer season.<\/p>\n

Similarly, I’m a strong supporter of some core right to abortion – probably not including late-term abortions. But I’m troubled at the idea that a girl who cannot get her ears pierced (or here in L.A., her bellybutton pierced) without Mon or Dad signing off can go to a clinic and have an abortion with no adult supervision or involvement except by the abortion provider.<\/p>\n

So I was spinning around this issue pretty tightly, until TG and I discussed it. She hates initiative law in general (she works with lawyers, and thinks that we ought to leave it to the pros – riiiiight).<\/p>\n

But she made the telling point on this to me when she said “I’d support this if the Legislature passed it. But it just doesn’t seem to rise to the level of the kind of issue we ought to be passing in initiative law.”<\/p>\n

She’s right.<\/p>\n

So I’ll be voting – more than a bit reluctantly – “No” on Proposition 73.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal comes out against California Proposition 73, which would limit abortions for minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}