California’s Proposition 73--a parental notification amendment that was voted down last year--is back, but this time it’s got a new name.

Now the parental notification measure -- which would require doctors to inform a parent or guardian before performing abortions on girls under 18 -- is back on the Nov. 7 ballot, as Proposition 85. And this time, Democrats and supporters of legal abortion hope the measure -- endorsed by Schwarzenegger in 2005 -- will help boost his opponent, Democratic state Treasurer Phil Angelides.

"I think it is a real issue and it will be able to help us," said Bill Carrick, a senior strategist for the Angelides campaign. "Pro-choice women will know that they can count on Phil, but they can't count on Arnold."

Angelides said of the proposal, “There is now an effort by anti-choice extremists to roll back the clock to a much darker day...The fact is, voters of California rejected a similar measure (last year) and said it was wrong for anti-choice extremists and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to jeopardize teen safety.�

Proposition 85 differs from 73 in that the definition of abortion as causing the “death of the unborn child, a child conceived but not yet born� has been revised.