California Politics
November 9th, 2005 | by Dr. Forbush |Yesterday’s election results say a lot about California politics and they say a lot about elections in general.
For example, in 1987, the California Legislature enacted A.B. 2274, which altered California law to require parental consent or a court order before a minor could obtain an abortion. In 1987 the California Assembly had 44 Democrats and 34 Republicans. And, the California Senate had 24 Democrats, 14 Republicans and 1 Independent. So, it wasn’t like the Republicans took over and suddenly wanted to create more restrictive abortion standards. One could certainly argue that the representatives of the people studied the issue and created a law based on what they believe their constituents wanted.