My hero!/s
Posted on 11/06/2022 12:56:09 AM PDT by Morgana
SACRAMENTO – As states across the country continue to impose archaic and dangerous laws to outlaw abortion and criminalize patients and providers, Governor Gavin Newsom today granted a posthumous pardon to Laura Miner, a courageous provider of reproductive health services in California from 1934 to 1948, and lifted up the state’s continued work to expand and protect reproductive rights and health care access for all.
Laura Miner dedicated her career to providing safe and accessible elective abortions at a time when punitive restrictions forced women to seek unregulated and often medically risky abortions. She was respected in the medical community as a highly skilled practitioner and served patients in need on a sliding scale. In 1949, Miner was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for the felony crimes of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion.
“In California, we’re never going back to a time when women were forced to seek basic health care in back rooms and underground clinics,” said Governor Newsom. “Laura Miner’s story is a powerful reminder of the generations of people who fought for reproductive freedom in this country, and the risks that so many Americans now face in a post-Roe world. Miner paid a price for taking a stand, and today we’re taking a step to right this injustice and reaffirm California’s commitment to defending the hard-won progress made by countless advocates and health care providers over the decades.”
A copy of the pardon certificate granted today can be found here.
“This pardon is a reaffirmation of California’s commitment to uphold reproductive rights and to protect those who seek or provide abortion care,” said First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom. “As a woman and a mother, I’m so grateful for Laura Miner’s courage and dedication to providing women safe reproductive care in the face of tremendous personal risk. Now, more than 70 years after Ms. Miner was unjustly convicted, we must channel her strength and resolve as we fight to protect and guarantee in the U.S. a woman’s very basic right to make decisions about her own body and future.”
“Laura Miner was a hero ahead of her time who willingly traded her own freedom to save countless women – women who risked everything to make their own healthcare decisions and, in a very basic sense, choose their own future,” said Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego). “Laura’s bravery deserved to be commended, not prosecuted, and I’m grateful that we have evolved enough to be able to pardon her today. Laura’s story of subversive care eerily foreshadows what we may see as courts and statehouses across the country roll back our reproductive rights. We remember her, and the generations of women who had no option but to seek care in the shadows, as we continue the work to ensure that California is a beacon of reproductive justice and access for all.”
California now protects and regulates safe reproductive health care for all, and the state continues to enact nation-leading laws and policies to make this essential care more affordable and accessible. With this act of clemency, Governor Newsom is acknowledging the inherent injustice of Miner’s conviction and her important contributions to the people of California.
“Thank you Governor Newsom for not just taking steps to improve access to essential health care like abortion today, but righting the injustices towards providers in the past,” said Jodi Hicks, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California. “The action today is a stark reminder of the reality that now is before us in this post-Dobbs world and the risk providers take every day to make sure patients get the care they want and need. We are grateful for Governor Newsom’s commitment to continue to move our state forward towards a more equitable and just future – one where people are able to get the care they want, when they want, and where they want, free from fear of legal persecution.”
Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Governor Newsom and the Legislature have taken action to advance California’s leadership on reproductive freedom with new measures to further protect patients and providers from legal retaliation, assist women in other states seeking abortion care, and expand reproductive health care access and affordability:
Launched abortion.ca.gov to provide people inside and outside of California with information about their legal rights, where to find providers, financial assistance and more. Allocated more than $200 million to cover uninsured care, support health care facilities, providers and patients, bolster security and more. Signed legislation to help protect patients and providers in California from civil liability for providing, aiding or receiving abortion care in the state. Eliminated copays for abortion care services and signed into law a package to further strengthen access and protect patients and providers. Signed legislative measures to ensure that pregnancy loss is not criminalized, safeguard the privacy of medical records and prohibit law enforcement and corporations from cooperating with out-of-state entities regarding lawful abortions in California. Signed an executive order preventing medical records, patient data and other information from being shared by state agencies in response to inquiries or investigations brought by other states or individuals within those states looking to restrict abortion access, and declining to extradite any person in California sought by another state for lawful abortion services provided in California. Launched a new Multi-State Commitment to defend access to reproductive health care and protect patients and providers.
This is the Governor’s second posthumous pardon. In 2020, he granted his first posthumous pardon to Bayard Rustin, a humanitarian and influential civil rights leader. To date, Governor Newsom has granted a total of 130 pardons, 123 commutations and 35 reprieves. Additional information on executive clemency can be found here. ###
California Über Alles California Über Alles Über Alles California Über Alles California
Zen fascists will control you Hundred percent natural You will jog for the master race And always wear the happy face Close your eyes, can't happen here Big Bro' on white horse is near The hippies won't come back, you say Mellow out or you will pay Mellow out or you will pay
California Über Alles California Über Alles Über Alles California Über Alles California
Now it is 1984 Knock-knock at your front door It's the suede denim secret police They have come for your uncool niece Come quietly to the camp You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp Don't you worry, it's only a shower For your clothes, here's a pretty flower Die on organic poison gas Serpent's egg's already hatched You will croak, you little clown When you mess with President Newsom When you mess with President Newsom
California Über Alles California Über Alles Über Alles California Über Alles California
Newsom is a disgusting, deplorable character. He was the Rosa Parks of “gay marriage,” and now he thinks his road to the White House runs through America’s abortion clinics. It’s truly sick and evil. The man is Satanic.
Still trying to wrap my head around
this being called ‘healthcare’ when
there’s murder involved.
Scumbag.
He is, having launched “abortion.ca.gov.”
Homosexuality and abortion are acts of selfish people who think only of their own pleasure.
[A copy of the pardon certificate granted today can be found here.]
Hey Newsome: Let us know if that pardon certificate works on Almighty God in the afterlife.
Pilate washed his hands and said: “I am innocent of this man’s blood” - I doubt that worked either.
I’ll take “utterly meaningless gestures” for $100, Alex.
CC
She served two of the four years. Earlier she ratted out her boss, who ran a network of abortionists and he went to jail. Then she took up business as a "chiropractor" in Hollywood and made a ton of a money off of Hollywood stars. Pretending to give back in to the poor was a charade. She was certainly not "respected" in the medical community, she was notorius and open about what she did and how she collected the money (and expensive furs and jewelry) from Hollywood stars.
Well, since the boy Governor is in the mood to pardon people, remember, that in the past, he has pardoned criminals because they might be deported. So, how about it Governor? Can you find it in your heart to fully pardon David DePape? He is here illegally, like other illegals who have committed crimes who you fully pardoned so that they wouldn’t be deported.
That came true.
Biafra became a green and joined the zen fascists.
The problem,Governor Hair Gel,is that that murderous whore is very,*very* probably rotting in hell as I type!
“reproductive health services”
Exactly.......abortion has absolutely NOTHING to do with reproduction.........other than killing it.
It’s one of the greatest falsehoods ever perpetrated on the American people ever........the other being that covid shots are safe and actually work.
Sorry girls;
but that 'blob of tissue' inside you is NOT part of your body,
as any DNA test will PROVE.
It is another Human Being, the life of which you have NO 'right' to end.
Yeah somehow this isn’t the pardon I’d be working on at this point in my existence.
Still trying to wrap my head around
this being called ‘healthcare’ when
there’s murder involved.
**********
It sure ain’t “healthcare” for the little innocent baby being murdered.
It’s not “healthcare” nor is there such a thing as “reproductive rights”
They are just kinder, gentler terms to cover up what they really mean
Just like “affirmative action” and “diversity” are dog whistles for discrimination against Whites, Asians and Jews
As courageous as the exterminaters at Dachau or the incinerators at Auschwitz.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.