5 (2 votes) Article opinions: ,x factor gym;1 posts The AP/San Jose Mercury News on Sunday profiled Jim Holman, publisher of the alternative weekly newspaper the San Diego Reader, who has contributed $2.6 million in cash and loans to support Proposition 85 -- a statewide ballot measure that would require doctors to notify parents or guardians before performing an abortion on a minor (Hoffman, AP/San Jose Mercury News, 10/29). The measure would require unmarried girls younger than age 18 to inform a parent or legal guardian of their intention to have an abortion 48 hours before undergoing the procedure. The initiative is similar to Proposition 73, which failed in November 2005, but it eliminates language that defines abortion as resulting in the "death of an unborn child,trx xmount,...