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11/07/2005

Shocking phone tapes prove the dangers young girls face when seeking secret abortions in California
Parents need Prop 73 to protect their young daughters

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 7 /Christian Wire Service/ -- In a Tuesday, November 8, special election, California's voters will vote on Proposition 73, the Parents' Right to Know and Child Protection initiative.

Shocking tapes now online at www.YESon73.net -- more than 90 audio tape recordings and transcripts of telephone calls to California abortion clinics provide graphic proof that many abortion clinics are willing to perform a secret abortion on a 13-year-old girl impregnated by a 22-year-old man without informing a parent or guardian.

These recordings and transcripts are available at www.YESon73.net. And much worse, almost all of the abortion clinic staff assure the 13-year-old girl that they will NOT report her 22-year-old "boyfriend", even though she is a victim of sexual molestation and statutory rape. The abortion clinic staff shockingly state their willingness to provide a secret abortion and thus conceal her sexual abuse and exploitation and to then provide confidential post-abortion birth control -- and send her right back into the hands of her abuser!

A study of 46,000 pregnant school-age girls in California found that 71 percent of the fathers were adults, with an average age of 22.6 years. Thousands of minor girls seek abortions in California each month. Current state law lets abortion clinics perform taxpayer-funded abortions on young girls, with the girls' parents never knowing about this dangerous invasion of their family's life and privacy by strangers.

Proposition 73 asks voters to restore to California families the right to have at least one parent notified by a doctor at least 48 hours before an abortion can be performed on a daughter age 17 or younger. Prop 73 only requires parental notification, not consent, and does not have any other effect on the legal status of abortion or abortion funding in California. Similar laws have benefited families in more than 30 states, where they have been in effect for many years.

Also at www.YESon73.net are audio tapes and transcripts of two aggrieved parents calling the Roger Hedgecock radio show on KOGO, San Diego on Friday, October 21st, sadly describing the terrible harm their young daughters suffered after secret abortions were performed on them.