Comments on: Bringing democracy to Amerikkka http://sfbayview.com/2008/bringing-democracy-to-amerikkka/ Black liberation news and views Thu, 24 May 2012 07:13:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Spike Kahn http://sfbayview.com/2008/bringing-democracy-to-amerikkka/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Spike Kahn Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:48:58 +0000 http://www.sfbayview.com/?p=515#comment-117 There is another state proposition on the ballot that would endanger our young women and MUST be defeated. Please Vote NO on Prop 4, which would put one more restriction on the rights of young women's freedom of choice. By targeting young women, Prop 4 would force women under 18 from having an abortion, even in cases of rape or incest by a family member, unless they could get one of their parents to sign a release. Even if it were their father who abused them in the first place! No one likes to think that if their daughter were pregnant, she wouldn't even tell her parents, and would run and have an abortion. And your daughter, if she has a good relationship with you, would tell you, and you would decide together what to do. But not every young woman has a good, loving family. Many young women have parents on drugs/alcohol, or who are absent, and these girls have to fend for themselves. If they were abused and became pregnant, not only would they have to figure out for themselves what to do and where to go, but even if they found a safe place, they still would be forced to have an unwanted child while they are still children themselves, if they couldn't get their parent's to agree. And, in the case of rape or incest by that parent, they'd have a reminder of the abuse everyday for the rest of their lives. Please vote NO on Prop 4, and give our young women a chance to improve their situations. Thank you. There is another state proposition on the ballot that would endanger our young women and MUST be defeated. Please Vote NO on Prop 4, which would put one more restriction on the rights of young women’s freedom of choice. By targeting young women, Prop 4 would force women under 18 from having an abortion, even in cases of rape or incest by a family member, unless they could get one of their parents to sign a release. Even if it were their father who abused them in the first place! No one likes to think that if their daughter were pregnant, she wouldn’t even tell her parents, and would run and have an abortion. And your daughter, if she has a good relationship with you, would tell you, and you would decide together what to do. But not every young woman has a good, loving family. Many young women have parents on drugs/alcohol, or who are absent, and these girls have to fend for themselves. If they were abused and became pregnant, not only would they have to figure out for themselves what to do and where to go, but even if they found a safe place, they still would be forced to have an unwanted child while they are still children themselves, if they couldn’t get their parent’s to agree. And, in the case of rape or incest by that parent, they’d have a reminder of the abuse everyday for the rest of their lives.

Please vote NO on Prop 4, and give our young women a chance to improve their situations. Thank you.

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