Wade that would amend the state constitution to guarantee access to abortion procedures and birth control, was passed by California voters on Tuesday. The amendment guarantees the right to abortion and contraception. It was part of a robust legislative package backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to ...
AbortionSpontaneousAbortionTherapeuticAmericasBirthPIP: The impact of the reformed California abortion law, passed in November 1967, is investigated. The law allows interruption of pregnancy in the presence of substantial risk of grave impairment to the mental or physical health of the mother. Septic ...
Abortion is now illegal in 14 states after theU.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. But doctors and pharmacists in California whomail abortion pillsto patients in those states will be shielded from prosecution or fines. The law bans bounty hunters or bail agents from apprehending...
" said UCLA law professor Cary Franklin, an expert in constitutional law and reproductive rights who has testified before the California legislature in support of the amendment. "If they said 'no' on abortion, they're probably going to say ...
The California Legislative Women’s Caucus & Future of Abortion Council introduced alengthy package of 17 billsearlier in 2023 on “Reproductive Justice & Abortion Rights.” These are the 10 bills signed into law by Gov. Newsom: AB 254 (Bauer-Kahan) Adds CMIA/HIPAA protections for data collect...
Newsom and his Democratic allies in the state Legislature worked quickly to get this law passed. But some Republicans questioned the need for it. Last year, Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs signed an executive order barring local prosecutors from bringing abortion-related charges. Still, Democrat...
Tuesday's rallies were in response to the recent anti-abortion legislation in several conservative states, the most notable being Alabama. Last week, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey approved the most stringent abortion law in the nation."This is happening right now in our world, on our watch," West...
Cat Duffy, a policy analyst at the National Health Law Program, said the intention of collecting this data “is not one of scientific exploration.” “It’s to create a culture of fear, which will spread, not just to abortion seekers, but pregnant people as well, who will be afraid o...
Bauer is an abortion opponent who supports some limited exceptions, “but nobody’s willing to throw (in) any kind of compromise ... it’s either a yes or no vote.” The reproductive-rights question in Vermont came after Legislature passed a law in 2019 guaranteeing reproductive ...
The California Legislature this week passed about a dozen bills in what proponents call a "historic" legislative package to protect and expand abortion access in the state, as its Democratic leaders seek to make California a "reproductive