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Reagan signed a bill allowing abortion-no your kidding right?

[Torie]

No, I am not kidding.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Constitutional law, science and medicine have dramatically changed since Ronald Reagan was Governor of California. But a major law involving fundamental reproductive rights remains frozen in time. California’s Therapeutic Abortion Act appears in our statute books exactly as Governor Reagan signed it in 1967.

A progressive measure 35 years ago, the Therapeutic Abortion Act now is archaic, confusing, and unconstitutional. A lawyer researching the Health and Safety Code today would read that abortion is legal only if a hospital committee determines that the pregnancy will gravely impair a woman’s physical or mental health or a District Attorney concludes that the pregnancy probably resulted from rape or incest. Health and Safety Code Sections 123405, 123407.