Title: Mabon v. Myers (Certification)
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: S48518
State: Oregon
Issuer: Oregon Supreme Court
Date: November 26, 2001

FILED:  November 26, 2001 
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON

LON T. MABON,
		Petitioner,
	v.
HARDY MYERS,
Attorney General,
State of Oregon,
	Respondent,
        and
ANN JACKSON,
HANNAH DAVIDSON, JEANA FRAZZINI,
STEPHANIE VAN ZUIDEN,
and JANN CARSON,
Intervenors.
(SC S48518)

	En Banc
	On modified ballot title filed November 16, 2001.* 
	No appearance by petitioner or intervenors.
	Holly A. Vance, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, filed the
filing of modified ballot title for respondent.  With her on the
filing were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Michael D.
Reynolds, Solicitor General.
	The modified ballot title is certified.  The appellate
judgment shall issue in accordance with ORS 250.085(9).
	332 Or 633, ___ P3d ___ (2001) (referring ballot title for
modification).
		The court in this ballot title review proceeding
determined that the Attorney General's certified ballot title for
a proposed initiative measure, which the Secretary of State
denominated as Initiative Petition 34 (2002), failed to comply
substantially with statutory standards.  Mabon v. Myers, 332 Or
633, ___ P3d ___ (2001).  Under Oregon Laws 2001, chapter 802,
section 2 (now codified as ORS 250.085(8)), the court referred
the ballot title to the Attorney General for modification.  The
Attorney General has filed a modified ballot title for the
proposed initiative measure, and no party to the ballot title
review proceeding has objected.  See ORS 250.085(9) (setting out
period within which party may object to modified ballot title and
requiring court to certify modified ballot title if no objection
filed).
	The modified ballot title for Initiative Petition 34
(2002) states:
"AMENDS CONSTITUTION.  PROHIBITS:  ABORTION,
PHYSICIAN-AIDED DYING, CERTAIN
PAIN/BIRTH-CONTROL METHODS, 'MORTAL
HARM' 
TO 'INNOCENT' PERSONS
		"RESULT OF 'YES' VOTE:  'Yes' vote prohibits:
abortion; physician aid-in-dying; certain pain-control,
birth-control methods; 'mortal harm' to 'innocent human
life' from fertilization until 'natural death.'
		"RESULT OF 'NO' VOTE:  'No' vote retains current
laws allowing abortion, physician aid-in-dying, pain-control and birth-control methods; rejects 'protecting'
'person' from fertilization until 'natural death.'
		"SUMMARY:  Amends constitution.  Under current
law, abortion permitted before fetus becomes viable
outside womb; after viability, abortion allowed if
women's life endangered; woman may use birth-control
methods effective after fertilization, including IUD's,
morning-after pill, some oral contraceptives; pain
control permitted that may hasten death; competent
terminally-ill patient may choose physician-hastened
death under Death with Dignity Act.  Measure declares
that 'God Almighty,' not man, establishes 'Human
Personhood' at fertilization.  Measure requires
citizens, 'in humility and obedience to Nature's God,'
to 'protect' from 'mortal harm' all 'innocent Human
Life,' 'acknowledging,' 'protecting' 'Human Person'
from fertilization until 'natural death.'  Measure does
not define terms quoted above.  Measure prohibits
abortion, physician aid-in-dying, birth-control methods
taken after conception, pain control that may hasten
death."
	The modified ballot title is certified.  The appellate
judgment shall issue in accordance with ORS 250.085(9).