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On November's ballot in CA we will have two very important propositions. The Marriage Amendment and Sarah's Law which is a parental notification law. Please, please, please view this 60 second video and pass it on to everyone you know. Please go to www.FriendsOfSarah.com for more information. Also see National Organization for Marriage California

Researchers Say Notification Laws Not Lowering ID Theft Over the past five years, 43 U.S. states have adopted data breach notification laws, but has all of this legislation actually cut down on identity theft? Not according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University who have published a state-by-state analysis of data supplied by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). "There doesn't seem to be any evidence that the laws actually reduce identity theft," said Sasha Romanosky, a Ph.D student at Carnegie Mellon who is one of the paper's authors. Romanosky's team took a state-by-state look at FTC identity theft complaints filed...

It has officially qualified according to the California Secretary of State Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor’s Pregnancy. Constitutional Amendment. Summary Date: 11/20/07 Qualified: 05/30/08 Signatures Required: 694,354 Proponent: John Smith Amends California Constitution to prohibit abortion for unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor’s parent, legal guardian or, if parental abuse reported, an adult family member. Provides exceptions for medical emergency or parental waiver. Permits courts to waive notice based on clear and convincing evidence of minor’s maturity or best interests. Mandates reporting requirements, including reports from physicians regarding abortions on minors. Authorizes monetary...

WASHINGTON — President Bush and Texas, the state he once led, were on opposite sides of a Supreme Court dispute today over the role of international law and claims of executive power in the case of a Mexican on death row for rape and murder in Houston. The justices engaged in a spirited discussion of who gets the final say in whether Texas courts must give Jose Ernesto Medellin a new hearing because local police never notified Mexican diplomats that he had been arrested, in violation of an international treaty. An international court ruled in 2004 that the convictions of...

Concord, NH (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-abortion state legislator who is sponsoring a measure to repeal the state's law requiring a teenage girl's parents to be notified before she can have an abortion says she thinks she has enough votes to get the bill through the legislature. The state House will vote next week on the legislation from State Rep. Elizabeth Hager, a Republican. Hager indicated she expects the Senate to sign off on the bill as well and for it to get as much as 65 percent of the vote in the 400 member House. She predicts a 15-9 Senate...

He's the owner of one of the largest alternative newspapers in the country, a father of seven and a Vietnam veteran decorated with a pair of Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. He's also a conservative Catholic who attends Mass every day, teaches Latin to home-schooled students and rides the public bus from his Coronado home to his office in Little Italy. But to understand what drives Jim Holman, why he has bankrolled two parental-notification initiatives for minors seeking an abortion in this state, you might want to turn the calendar to 1989. That's when his weekly newspaper, the San...

There are nights when 1st Sgt. Adam Harrell lies awake dreading his job as a harbinger of death for the Marine Corps. He can picture how a widow's face contorts with grief, how parents cringe and weep when he knocks on the door to tell them of a loved one killed in action. Some run and hide at the sight of his dress blue uniform. Others throw their arms around him, hugging and sobbing. In the face of such sorrow, the 5-foot-11 military man feels suddenly small. "Hands down, it's the hardest thing I've ever done," said Harrell, who works...

California voters will get a second chance to rule on whether parents should be notified when their daughters seek abortions. They'll also decide whether tobacco taxes should be raised to pay for a variety of anti-smoking and health care programs. Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said Tuesday that both initiatives had attracted enough voter signatures to make the November ballot. They join eight other proposals that previously made the ballot, although a bill moving through the Legislature would move one of those measures, a $9.95 billion high-speed rail bond, to the November 2008 ballot. The abortion measure would require parents...

The proponents of last year's failed parental-notification initiative are back, pushing a nearly identical measure for this year's November ballot. Buoyed by $2 million from conservative financier and newspaper owner James Holman, the campaign already has collected 700,000 signatures--100,000 more than is needed--to place a measure on the fall ballot. The campaign intends to turn those signatures, and more, in to counties across the state by mid-May, setting up a rematch of last year's heated abortion debate during the fall's gubernatorial election. "We've gathered more than 700,000 signatures and we are planning on qualifying for the November ballot," said campaign...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Backers of a failed special election measure that would have forced doctors to notify parents or guardians before performing abortions on underage girls are circulating petitions to have Californians vote on nearly the same measure next November. Like Proposition 73, the initiative would require a girl under 18 to wait 48 hours after a parent or legal guardian is notified of her intention to get an abortion. Secretary of State Bruce McPherson on Monday cleared supporters to begin gathering signatures. Voters rejected Proposition 73 by 53 percent to 47 percent during the Nov. 8 special election, when...

When President Bush nominated Judge Sam Alito to the Supreme Court, it didn't take long for extremist groups to alight on his partial dissent in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, decided by the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1991, as a pretext to oppose him. Planned Parenthood's Karen Pearl called the opinion "outrageous" and said it proved Judge Alito is "far, far out of the mainstream." Planned Parenthood mostly lost the Casey case, in which a three-judge panel unanimously upheld all but one of Pennsylvania's abortion restrictions. The next year, a 7-2 Supreme Court majority agreed. But by 5-4,...

As recently as October 1, 2005 the plea for the Supreme Court to reinstate the Partial Birth Abortion Act is still being made. The ban on partial abortions would prevent the fetus (usually in its second or third trimester) from being delivered and then executed. The ban was officially signed into law by President Bush in 2003. Recent upheaval about the reinstitution of the ban has resulted from many loopholes in the abortion process. According to Susan B. Anthony List.com, one example of an abortion violation occurred in the state of Minnesota during 2002. The following case was performed only...

I WONDER what grassroots Republicans around New Hampshire must have thought when the Republican speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, Doug Scamman, announced last week that he’d join and sign a Democratic Supreme Court brief to overturn New Hampshire’s 2003 parental notification law — a law passed by a Republican House, a Republican Senate and signed into law by a Republican governor. New Hampshire’s attorney general, Kelly Ayotte, will soon be defending New Hampshire’s new parental notification law before the high court. Since health-of-the-mother issues are resolved within the law (which Speaker Scamman later acknowledged when he reversed...

Compared to other measures on the November special election ballot, Prop. 73 hasn’t attracted much in the way of financial support or opposition. Also (and this is no surprise), Planned Parenthood is the largest donor to date contributing more than $1.1 million to keep parents from being knowing that their minor children are being subjected to an abortion,, an invasive medical procedure. Read More... Craig DeLuz Visit The Home of Uncommon Sense... www.craigdeluz.com

As many of you know, I am working with a coalition of Pro-Family organizations that have come together to help pass Proposition 73 (The Parent’s Right to Know Initiative). The California Parent’s Rights Coalition is made up of the state’s leading advocates for traditional values and religious liberty. However, we still face a significant uphill battle. Read More... Craig DeLuz Visit The Home of Uncommon Sense... www.craigdeluz.com

Casualty Notification OfficersPittsburgh Post-Gazette photo We've likely all envisioned ourselves as the sympathetic military family members behind the front door, opening it to the worst possible news - the loss of a loved one, often a spouse or child. Generally not a word need be said; simply the sight of sharply attired airmen emerging from a vehicle or spit'n polish sailors standing on the front porch tells bereaved family members more than they'd ever want to know. Although these messengers have rehearsed their tragic lines repeatedly, they often never get to utter a syllable before intended recipients break down. Still,...

Initiative Update as of June 7, 2005 Initiatives Qualified forthe Next Statewide Election Ballot     1067. (SA04RF0030, Amdt. #1-S) [REVISED]Termination of Minor's Pregnancy. Waiting Period and Parental Notification. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.Proponents: Paul E. Laubacher and Barbara R. Laubacher (916) 381-5222Amends California Constitution to bar abortion on unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor's parent/legal guardian, except in medical emergency or with parental waiver. Permits judicial waiver of notice based on clear and convincing evidence of minor's maturity or minor's best interests. Physician must report abortions performed on minors and State shall compile statistics. Authorizes monetary damages for violation....

Should minors be required to notify a parent before getting an abortion? Y or N. (Freep this Poll)

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide a long-unsettled issue of abortion law: the standard to be used in judging the constitutionality of a restriction on a women's right to end a pregnancy. The issue arises in the case of Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (docket 04-1144). The case also raises the question whether a parental consent law for minors' abortions must contain a health exception.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Parents would be told when their minor daughters seek abortions under a bill the Legislature passed Friday. A 96-14 vote in the House sent the measure (CS-HB 1659) to Gov. Jeb Bush, who had signed a similar parental notice bill into law in 1999 only to have it blocked by the courts. Lawmakers were widely expected to pass a new parental notice law this session after voters approved a constitutional amendment in November to address the legal obstacles. But the House and Senate developed parental notice bills that had significant differences. The two chambers worked out...

The House this week is expected to pass a controversial abortion-related bill, and its outlook in the Senate has improved significantly in the wake of the GOP’s gains in November. Legislation that would make it illegal in most circumstances for an adult to transport a minor across state lines to avoid certain abortion laws could be enacted this year, according to a House sponsor who has seen similar measures stall in the Senate. “We’ve passed it a number of times through the House,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) said. She added that the increased GOP majority in the Senate is of...

More than an hour into a meeting about a Level 3 sex offender new to Bloomington, one person in the crowd of 180 asked about the offense that resulted in the man's classification. A Bloomington police sergeant started answering at the Wednesday night meeting, but was soon interrupted. "Wrong, wrong, that's wrong," said James Ernest Williams, the Level 3 sex offender, who had arrived at the meeting at Northwestern College of Chiropractic in Bloomington moments earlier, said Bloomington police Cmdr. Kevin Herman, the department's spokesman. Who better to answer the question than the man himself, authorities thought. But things didn't...

In California, a person under the age of 18 cannot get a body piercing, tattoo or get married without parental consent. Yet according to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, public schools are not required to inform parents if their child leaves campus to receive certain confidential medical services that include an abortion, AIDS treatment and psychological analysis. Although he has previously claimed the law is ambiguous, he recently indicated that in his opinion; parents do not have the right to be notified if their children receive these services. As a parent of 3 children and myself a product of the...

Police will notify parents about teen traffic tickets MIDDLETOWN — Police Chief John Pollinger has begun to notify parents of drivers under the age of 18 when they’re found driving at a reckless speed. “What brought it to a head was on Jan. 1, I pulled over a kid on Navesink River Road doing 85 mph in 40 mph zone, 100 yards before McClees Creek,” said Pollinger. “The kid wouldn’t have survived going over the hump at 85. He would’ve been killed.” A year previous, two teens were killed at the same location. Police estimated that the driver was operating...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 - President Bush on Wednesday nominated Alberto R. Gonzales, the White House counsel and a longtime political loyalist, to be his next attorney general. The speed with which Mr. Bush acted, only a day after making public the resignation of John Ashcroft, indicated that the president wants to get his new appointees in place before the start of his second term, 10 weeks from now. The nomination of Mr. Gonzales would also put one of his most trusted aides in a post where past presidents have wanted to have a confidant, as well as someone who can...

www.lifeontheballot.org -Life on the Ballot- Life on the Ballot is supporting the Parents' Right to Know and Child Protection Initiative. This initiative will require that one of the parents or guardian of a minor girl seeking an abortion be notified by the abortion provider before the abortion take place. Signature gathering for this initiative will begin in early Fall 2004. We have 150 days to collect the required 598,015 signatures-- until early  2005. Petitions will be available for signature gathering in early Fall. Check this website for updates. Information is also available in Spanish.   Frequently Asked Questions    ...

Here's my latest poster in the "Freedom Matters" series. The linked URL for this thread opens the LARGE size artwork so you can "copy, paste & print." It's sized for 8.5"x11" paper (you may need to resize it for your printer... the proportion is correct, though).You can print out as many of these as you wish... just no commercial endeavors, please.

TALLAHASSEE - A proposed constitutional amendment concerning abortion won the support of a majority of the Democrats on a conservative House committee Thursday, signaling that the measure will likely pass out of the Legislature by wide margins and end up on the November ballot. Though suspicious of the presidential election-year timing of the issue, centrist Democrats in the more moderate Senate also approve of the measure requiring parents to be notified if their underage daughters get abortions. They cite opinion surveys that show widespread support for putting parental notification in the state Constitution. The state Supreme Court struck down a...

State Senate bill to ensure parental notification when minors seek an abortion failed to make it out of committee last week as a key deadline passed. A vote wasn't even called for. Two Republican swing votes withheld pledges of support, because any abortion-related legislation makes the state GOP leadership queasy. They think the crucial suburban electorate will somehow see 48-hour parental notification as a first step toward outlawing abortion. For this, we have not only gutless GOP leaders to blame, but hard-line "March For Life" protesters who again swarmed Olympia several weeks ago, waving anti-abortion placards with phrases such as...

American Constitutional Research Service Jan. 3, 2004 In a recent case North Florida Women's Health & Counseling Services, Inc. v. State of Florida[decided July 10th, 2003] Senior Justice Shaw delivering the opinion of the Court which struck down Florida’s “Parental Notice of Abortion Act” stated the following: “In the final analysis, we cannot fault the trial court for faithfully applying the controlling law. The court reasoned simply as follows (1) This Court in T.W. held that the Parental Consent Act imposed a significant restriction on a pregnant minor’s right of privacy. (2) The Court in T.W. further held that, in...

Sex-offender net nabs 108 who didn't notify By Chris Conley conley@gomemphis.com August 22, 2003 More than 100 convicted sex offenders in Shelby County who allegedly have failed to register with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have been rounded up over the past three days. The 108 convicted offenders, most of whom have completed probation, now face additional misdemeanor charges that carry a mandatory minimum of 180 days in jail. They have been convicted of a wide range of sexual crimes, including rape, statutory rape, rape of a child, soliciting a child and sexual exploitation of a child. They are among...

The Florida Supreme Court is at it again. This time the subject matter is abortion for minors and the requirement that they let their parents know before they have the surgical procedure done. As is stands now, the majority of justices on the state’s high court don’t believe that a minor should have to let their parents know. It’s a matter of their right to privacy, don’t you know. Bebe Anderson, a staff lawyer for the Center for Reproductive Rights (and we can only hope that she doesn’t procreate), said that for all intensive purposes the issue is said and...

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean said he would veto parental notification for abortions, citing the case of a 12-year-old girl he once met who had been impregnated by her father; Dean said most children bring their parents with them to a clinic voluntarily anyway, thus eliminating the need for a law requiring parental notification.

Most underage girls would stop seeking birth-control products from Planned Parenthood clinics if there was a law requiring that their parents be notified, says a study released yesterday. As a result, parental-notification laws "would likely increase unintended pregnancies, abortions and out-of-wedlock births," said researchers Diane M. Reddy and Raymond Fleming, both of the psychology department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in the Journal of the American Medical Association....Virtually all the girls queried for the study said they would continue to be sexually active regardless of whether they visited a family-planning clinic. The federal Title X family-planning program specifies that the...

If you think your phone rings off the hook now, just wait until mid-June, when Lane County tests its telephone warning system. As many as 130,000 telephones will ring within minutes of each other as the county pushes the limits of its Community Emergency Notification System, a sort of reverse 911 that calls citizens when there's an emergency, instead of the other way around. In December 1999, Lane County became the first county in the nation to acquire the type of system developed by Intrado of Boulder, Colo. The computer-based system allows emergency dispatchers to ring all the telephones within...