Saturday, October 22, 2005
The Union - News - Proposition 73: Wording of abortion measure worries abortion rights advocates
CALIFORNIA - The language, deviating from the more neutral language used in similar statutes elsewhere, raises questions about the measure’s ultimate goal. Is Proposition 73 intended as an appropriate assertion of parental rights, as its sponsors insist? Or, as abortion rights activists claim, does the language hint at a broader agenda to restrict reproductive freedom for all women by declaring that life begins at conception?
