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Juvenile

Nov. 15, 2005

Uprooted Cross a Symbol of Fraying Morality

Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - Last Tuesday was a red-letter day for a blue state. Proposition 73 simply required physicians to notify a parent or legal guardian before performing an abortion on an "unemancipated minor," the legal term for your little girl. The measure delivered dead on arrival. As Los Angeles Times editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez saw it, a minor must be accompanied by a parent to see an R-rated movie, but not to have her baby destroyed.

        
Forum Column

By William J. Becker Jr.
        
        Last Tuesday was a red-letter day for a blue state. Proposition 73 simply required physicians to notify a parent or legal guardian before performing an abortion on an "unemancipated minor," the legal term for your little girl. The me...

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