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** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY SEPT. 17 ** The clinic manager and intake worker, left, who wished not to be identified, waits for paperwork from a teenage client at the Choice Medical Group in San Francisco on Friday, Sept. 16, 2005. Among the most hotly contested of the eight ballot initiatives facing California voters in November is a constitutional amendment that would require doctors to give parents or guardians written notice 48 hours before performing an abortion on a minor. Abortion rights groups fear the measure is a first step toward restricting abortion accress in the state. Choice Medical Group says the staff at its six Northern California clinics already encourage pregnant teens to speak with their parents before getting an abortion and that mostdo, but some girls have legitimate reasons for wanting to keep the information to themselves. (AP Photo/ Julie Plasencia)

Abortion rights activist Nadine Block joins a candlelight vigil in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013.

The Rev. Faith Whitmore, new director of the homeless assistance nonprofit group Francis House, backs abortion rights and gay marriage.

Former California Gov. Pete Wilson, right, with Meg Whitman at the GOP convention, was long an outcast in the party for raising taxes and backing abortion rights as governor.