PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release — November 7, 2005
Contact:
Maria Elena Kennedy, 866-828-8355; Albin Rhomberg, 916- 421-8194,
916-662-1852; J.T. Finn, 310-378-0067; all with www.YesOn73.net
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 - 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.
