No means no means NO, dammit!

As if they didn’t get the message when Californians voted down Propositions 73 and 85, anti-choice groups in California have put yet another parental-notification proposition on the ballot.
Prop. 4 , also known as “Child and Teen Safety and Stop Predators Act: Sarah’s Law” (they’ve picked an even more hysterical-sounding name for it this time), seeks to amend the state constitution so that a doctor must inform a family member who is 18 or older 48 hours before a minor is scheduled to have an abortion. As always, the law would hypothetically allow for exemptions in the case of female minors who have the resources to obtain a court exemption without the parents finding out.
As a nineteen-year-old who has lived through both prop. 73 and 85, I am utterly disgusted at this. I can remember being sickened and confused when a Prop. 73 pamphlet came in my mailbox that had a story of a woman whose daughter had an abortion behind her back and said that the mother should have been legally able to force her13-year-old to give birth instead. My own mother said that the pamphlet was trash and that I shouldn’t worry and just throw it away. I was so upset that I kept it. I still have it.*

I remember when Prop. 85 came around, and they had the audacity to put up “Yes on 85! Protect our children!” signs at my high school. They wanted to put our lives, bodies, and futures at the whim of possibly abusive parents, and they called it protecting us? I cried, I worried, I asked people to vote no. I even taped “NO” over the “YES” on the signs at school and wrote notes on them saying that if they were good parents, they would already know that their daughters would trust them enough to come to them for help. I did everything I could at the time, and that didn’t include voting. What made me the most angry about Prop. 85 was that I was a teenaged minor female myself at the time, and I didn’t even have the power to vote on laws that affected my life that much!
This feels like my third slap on the face. I wish I could be surprised that my state is doing this again, but I’m not. It’s the exact same law with a much more misleading and fear-mongering title. But one thing has changed.
This time I can vote “No” on it.
*I scanned the pamphlet.