California voters on Tuesday "narrowly" rejected an abortion-related ballot initiative that would have required health care providers to notify parents or guardians of unmarried minors seeking abortion, the Contra Costa Times reports (Steffens, Contra Costa Times, 11/9). The initiative failed 52.6% to 47.4% with 99.6% of precincts reporting, according to the California secretary of state's Web site (Secretary of State Web site, 11/9). The initiative, known as Proposition 73, also would have changed the legal definition of the procedure from a "medical treatment intended to induce the termination of a pregnancy" to causing the death of "a child conceived but not yet born" (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 11/8). "What the vote came down to is whether or not folks saw this as an issue related to abortion or an issue related to parents' rights," Craig DeLuz -- a spokesperson for the California Parents Rights Coalition, which backed the measure -- said (Lucas, San Francisco Chronicle, 11/9).