And when they don't?...
I will post this once on abortion and will not be responding to it.
You wrote: "First off JMC813, the Governor has nothing to do with abortion law and couldn't do a damn thing about it if they wanted to."
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/sfaa/california.html
In California, the following restrictions on abortion were in effect as of December 2003:
California does not have any of the major types of abortion restrictions—such as waiting periods, mandated parental involvement or limitations on publicly funded abortions—often found in other states.
http://www.californiaprolife.org/legislation/taxpayer.html
Unborn Children Exterminated at the Expense of Taxpayers-- 1998:
Approximately 110,295, which includes 54,885 fee-for-service abortions, plus approximately 55,410 non-fee-for-service abortions which occur in Medi-Cal funded Prepaid Health Plans and other managed care programs.
Tax Dollars:
$34,519,905, which includes $17,176,575 for fee-for-service abortions, plus approximately $17,343,330 for abortions in the other plans.
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Policies of the Federal Government and the Other States
The federal government pays for abortions only when necessary to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest.
It was the policy in twenty-seven states to fund abortions only when the life of the mother was endangered until the Clinton administration through threats and law suits forced funding for other exceptions in several of the states. (AL, AZ, AR, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MI, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, ND, OH, OK, RI, SC, SD, TX, UT)
Eight other states choose to fund abortions only when the life of the mother is endangered or when the baby has been conceived by rape or incest-- several also fund when the baby might be born with handicaps or for other exceptions. (CO, IA, NC, PA, TN, VA, WI, WY)
Eight states pay for abortions by order of their state courts. (California has been so ordered, but subsequently moved into the next category.) (CT, IL, MA, MN, NJ, NM, WV, VT)
Seven states and the District of Columbia fully fund abortions by legislative decision. Since 1990 the California Legislature put California in this group by voting to fund abortion on demand. (AK, CA, HI, MD, NY, OR, WA)
There are a number of things the governor can do to stop state-funded abortions. Just because the republicans in California or New Jersey or the other states that provide taxpayer-funded abortions don't have the intestinal fortitude (read: guts) to do anything to stop it doesn't mean there's nothing that they can do.