In California, no girl is safe!

In California, no girl is sale. Most parents in the Golden State don't realize it, but they have been stripped of their right and ability to protect even their very young daughters against sexual predators. rapists, and abortionists. That is the effect of the defeat of Proposition 73, the Parents" Right to Know and Child Protection Initiative in California's November 8 special election.

Of course, California, like every other state in our nation, has laws on the book against forcible rape and statutory rape (that is, consensual sex between an adult and a minor who is not a spouse). But a coalition of politicians, abortionists, and the state's pro-abortion Big Media has conspired to subvert the law and give rapists tree rein.

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. There are tens of thousands of cases of statutory rape each year in California, which has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation. But if some 25-year-old predator lures your underage daughter into a sexual relationship and gets her pregnant, he has a very good chance of escaping prosecution in California. All he has to do is get her down to a Planned Parenthood abortion mill, where the baby--excuse me, "product of conception"--can be scraped, burned, or sucked out, without you ever being notified or consulted. What's more, even though the predator has committed a criminal act in having sex with your daughter and the "health provider" is required by law to report such instances of statutory rape, the rapist knows that Planned Parenthood personnel can be trusted to cover for him.

Need proof of Planned Parenthood's complicity in this crime wave? Go to www.YESon73.net and click on their "Shocking Audio Tapes!" page. YES on 73 is the group that spearheaded the recent initiative campaign. They have posted on their website undercover audio recordings of staffers at more than 90 abortion centers throughout California (the vast majority run by Planned Parenthood) assuring a squeaky-voiced 13-year-old girl telephone caller that no one will tell her parents or authorities about her impregnation by her 22-year-old boyfriend.

Here's a snippet from the call to Planned Parenthood of North Highlands:

Girl caller: "I'm just like, my friend told me that since like I'm going to be 14 in March that they would have to tell my parents I'm getting an abortion, but my boyfriend's 22. Is he old enough to take care of it and they wouldn't have to tell anybody?"

Planned Parenthood: "Actually, as long as you're 12 years and older all your records are confidential and nobody can get access to them. So they would not tell your parents." (Emphasis added.) Planned Parenthood in Sunnyvale went even further: "We wouldn't contact your parents regardless of how old you are."

And they don't tell anybody, not even the law enforcement authorities they are mandated to tell. How do they get away with this? Easy: the state's political machinery--legislators, big city mayors, prosecutors, courts--is dominated by militant pro-aborts, who are richly funded by Planned Parenthood's recycled blood money (millions of taxpayer dollars from government-funded abortions).

Most states in our nation have laws on the books that either prohibit tattooing and body piercing of minors, or at least require proof of parental consent for these procedures. Likewise, schools and hospital emergency rooms must obtain parental consent before administering so much as an aspirin to a child. If a teacher wants to take the students on a field trip, again, parental permission is required. Minors cannot legally buy alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, or chewing tobacco. So why is there such a huge disconnect when it comes to abortion for minor girls'? Can any sensible person really believe that having an abortion is less serious, less dangerous, less emotionally and physically traumatic than taking an aspirin or piercing an ear, and therefore, less deserving of parental involvement?

Prop 73 did not even propose to require parental consent for minors to get an abortion, it only required notification of at least one parent at least 48 hours before an abortion can be performed on a daughter age 17 or younger. Thirty-four other states have enacted similar or more stringent parental notification or parental consent laws, with the result that teen pregnancies and teen abortions have dropped dramatically in those states.

But doesn't the fact that California voters--which includes parents--rejected Prop 73 by 53 to 47 percent prove that Californians don't see any need for parental notification? No, it merely shows that most California parents are still uninformed.

Planned Parenthood threw nearly five million dollars into its deceptive NO on 73 campaign and swamped the airwaves with misleading ads. In addition, they had support of the state's Big Media, which provided the equivalent of millions of dollars in sympathetic coverage. By contrast, YES on 73 spent only a little over $700,000. They had mostly hostile media coverage, when they could get it. So, in California, until voters sweep the blood money cabal from power, abortionists and rapists are winners--parents and daughters are losers.