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****Attention all Californians! Is your bishop/diocese backing the Parents’ Right to Know and Child Protection ballot initiative?
I live in the diocese of Orange and my family and I sometimes attend Mass at different parishes in the Los Angeles and Orange County dioceses. I have not heard or seen any support for this new pro-life initiative and I am wondering why. Has anyone else in California experienced this in their diocese and if so what do you think the reason is?
**700,000 Signatures In — 200,000 More Needed **
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**Six Weeks to Go **
**By Tuesday, March 1, **the Parents’ Right to Know and Child Protection ballot initiative will have collected about 700,000 signatures from California registered voters.
The initiative — headed for the June, 2006 state ballot — will require that a physician notify a parent or guardian of an under-18 daughter at least 48 hours before performing an abortion on her.
At the present rate of signature gathering — over 50,000 a week — initiative backers should reach 900,000 signatures by March 31.
The Parents’ Right to Know initiative was written as a constitutional amendment initiative to put it beyond the reach of the California supreme court which upheld California’s parental consent law in 1996 and then blocked it in 1997.
The number of valid signatures required to qualify a constitutional amendment initiative like Parents’ Right to Know for the ballot is 598,105. Because of wrong addresses and other errors, organizers of the signature campaign need to collect about 900,000 total signatures by Monday, April 4, to be turned in by the Thursday, April 14 deadline.
More than three million petition sheets have been distributed throughout California.
Thousands of individual volunteers and churches have signed and distributed tens of thousands of petition sheets before and after services and Masses and at prayer groups, rallies, and social events. Response from Christian churches, large and small, and from Catholic parishes has been surprisingly strong and encouraging.
Bishop John Steinbock of the Fresno diocese kindly helped by giving permission to all the pastors of his 86 parishes to allow signature gathering in their parishes for Parents’ Right to Know.
Large ads and hundreds of thousands of thousands of petitions have been inserted in Catholic diocesan papers. These include twice in the Sacramento diocese’s Catholic Herald, published by Bishop William Weigand; twice in the Oakland diocese’s Catholic Voice, published by Bishop Allen Vigneron; once in the San Jose diocese’s Valley Catholic, published by Bishop Patrick McGrath; and twice in the San Diego diocese’s Southern Cross, published by Bishop Robert Brom.
losangelesmission.com/ed/articles/2005/0503prk.htm
I live in the diocese of Orange and my family and I sometimes attend Mass at different parishes in the Los Angeles and Orange County dioceses. I have not heard or seen any support for this new pro-life initiative and I am wondering why. Has anyone else in California experienced this in their diocese and if so what do you think the reason is?
**700,000 Signatures In — 200,000 More Needed **
**
**Six Weeks to Go **
**By Tuesday, March 1, **the Parents’ Right to Know and Child Protection ballot initiative will have collected about 700,000 signatures from California registered voters.
The initiative — headed for the June, 2006 state ballot — will require that a physician notify a parent or guardian of an under-18 daughter at least 48 hours before performing an abortion on her.
At the present rate of signature gathering — over 50,000 a week — initiative backers should reach 900,000 signatures by March 31.
The Parents’ Right to Know initiative was written as a constitutional amendment initiative to put it beyond the reach of the California supreme court which upheld California’s parental consent law in 1996 and then blocked it in 1997.
The number of valid signatures required to qualify a constitutional amendment initiative like Parents’ Right to Know for the ballot is 598,105. Because of wrong addresses and other errors, organizers of the signature campaign need to collect about 900,000 total signatures by Monday, April 4, to be turned in by the Thursday, April 14 deadline.
More than three million petition sheets have been distributed throughout California.
Thousands of individual volunteers and churches have signed and distributed tens of thousands of petition sheets before and after services and Masses and at prayer groups, rallies, and social events. Response from Christian churches, large and small, and from Catholic parishes has been surprisingly strong and encouraging.
Bishop John Steinbock of the Fresno diocese kindly helped by giving permission to all the pastors of his 86 parishes to allow signature gathering in their parishes for Parents’ Right to Know.
Large ads and hundreds of thousands of thousands of petitions have been inserted in Catholic diocesan papers. These include twice in the Sacramento diocese’s Catholic Herald, published by Bishop William Weigand; twice in the Oakland diocese’s Catholic Voice, published by Bishop Allen Vigneron; once in the San Jose diocese’s Valley Catholic, published by Bishop Patrick McGrath; and twice in the San Diego diocese’s Southern Cross, published by Bishop Robert Brom.
losangelesmission.com/ed/articles/2005/0503prk.htm