One of the proponents of last month's failed Proposition 73, requiring parental notification before a pregnant teenager's abortion, is attempting to put the issue back on the ballot-- but this time, without one of the November measure's most controversial provisions.

On Wednesday, the Attorney General's office received a request for a new initiative from Paul Laubacher, a proponent of Prop 73. The initiative, defeated on November 8 by 52.9% of the voters (results still unofficial), would have required doctors to notify a parent or legal guardian before performing an abortion on a minor teenage girl.

The new proposal does the exact same thing. In fact, the proposed initiative submitted this week is almost word-for-word the same as Prop 73... with one glaring change.

The new proposal no longer defines the abortion procedure.

Pro-choice advocates mounted a campaign against Prop 73 based, in part, on the measure's definition of an abortion as causing "the death of the unborn child, a child conceived but not yet born." They argued that the initiative was an attempt to insert a pro-life definition of the procedure into the state Constitution as a foothold for future challenges to existing abortion rights laws.

The new version drops all of the former language defining abortion, now simply saying it is "the use of any means to terminate the pregnancy of an unemancipated minor, except for the purpose of producing a live birth."

It's unclear how much the allegations over the old language actually influenced the "no on 73" vote... and whether the concept of parental notification, in general, would actually win in another statewide campaign.