With a wave of conservative states enacting tough new limits on abortions, Gov. Gavin Newsom invited women from across the nation to come to California to “fully exercise their reproductive rights.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks to reporters at a Capitol news conference in Sacramento in February.
On Friday, Newsom signed a proclamation “welcoming women to California” for the procedure and reaffirming the right of women to terminate a pregnancy, a protection enshrined in the state’s Constitution. The governor also joined with fellow Democratic Govs. Kate Brown of Oregon and Jay Inslee of Washington to urge states to pass laws protecting abortion rights.
“In the absence of federal leadership on this issue, states must step up and put in place their own protections — both in statute and in their state constitutions, and through the expansion of family planning and education — to defend everya wave of new legislative efforts pushing back against the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe vs.
The new state abortion restrictions are the latest in the nation's longstanding political clash over the issue. Advocates on both sides anticipate that the U.S. Supreme Court, with the recent appointments of conservative justices by President Trump, will move toward a possible overturning of Roe vs. Wade.The state first legalized abortion in 1967, years before the Roe vs.
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