Posted on 05/07/2022 3:07:16 PM PDT by Morgana
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Democrats have accelerated their plan to make the nation´s most populous state a sanctuary for women seeking abortions, propelled by the release this week of an early draft of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that has ignited a surge of activism among the state´s vast network of providers and advocacy groups.
The draft - which could change when a final ruling is issued, likely next month - would end nearly 50 years of federal abortion protections. Just hours after a leaked copy was published, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state´s top legislative leaders said they would seek voter approval to make abortions a constitutional right in California, a move designed to shield the state from future court rulings and a potential federal abortion ban should Republicans win control of Congress.
On Thursday, Democrats in the state Legislature fast-tracked a bill that would block other states´ laws from imposing civil or criminal penalties on people who provide or aid abortions in California, setting up another likely prolonged legal fight over state sovereignty.
The California Legislative Women´s Caucus has asked Newsom for $20 million to help pay for women from other states where abortion would be outlawed to come to California for the procedure - a sum the governor could announce in his revised budget proposal next week.
In just 48 hours after the draft ruling became public, California´s only statewide nonprofit that helps women travel to and within the state to get abortions raised $25,000 - a quarter of its normal annual spending - while fielding a flood of calls from people volunteering to give free rides or a place to stay to women looking to end their pregnancies.
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Just after a future census:
You killed 50 babies too many, so we are taking a Congressional seat away.
Secede.
And they are hardly the only state that will maintain liberal abortion laws.
That will or should conflict with the Mexican population. But maybe not as they might prefer white and black babies murdered by their parents.
And if I were in Congress I would vote against a federal ban. That this is none of the federal government’s business is the whole point of the Alito opinion
Can’t everybody just stop using that incredibly stupid phrase “leans in”?
It is at least a little bit helpful because it tells me the author is a young idiot and not worth reading.
Your optimism is very uplifting.
Exactly. It will simply go back to the States, where it should have remained in the first place. Some states will keep abortion legal, even ‘on demand’, others will restrict it.
If you don’t like your particular State’s laws, you can move to a state more to your liking.
Some of the ‘absolutists’ on both sides of this thing seem to want another civil war over it.
AB 2223 would allow infanticide up to 30 days after birth. Pur evil.
I’m personally more tired of ‘deep dive’...
One could only hope?
I mean geez, I have spent years wishing and hoping Cancerfornia would just literally break off and float out past Hawaii, so yeah. /s
whatever california does, it does as a decision of state, as is desired, when the abortion issue is returned to the 50 states, and no longer a federal issue.
California, Oregon and Washington could do as they threatened in the early months of the Civil War, and form a Pacific Republic called Pacifica (Use bear as a symbol). A New Nation founded on Abortion and Liberal thought. Maybe change it to “The Peoples Socialistic Republic of the Pacific” and add Western Canada and Hawaii as well. A good fit.
This is actually great news if more libs move from conservative states to liberal dumps.
It will help create a cleaner separation between conservatives and liberals, thus making any future secession easier.
I hope they have the mother of all earthquakes
“Some of the ‘absolutists’ on both sides of this thing seem to want another civil war over it.”
When Barry Goldwater ran for President many, if not most, conservatives believed that the national government had limited powers and it shouldn’t be dictating individual behavior.
When Goldwater, Buckley and Reagan opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Bills it was on those grounds. The national government was granting itself power that they believed it shouldn’t have.
Today we have competing factions that aren’t worried much about excessive government power. They just want the national government to enforce their moral vision. The old limited government idea vanished long ago.
The sooner we get back to the founding Federalist idea of how our nation should work, the better.
Too many people today don’t even know what it meant or means. They just want what they want when they want it.
Good. All the lefties that moved to conservative states can move back home now.
Abortion refuge? That’s like calling the nazi death camps resorts...
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