Posted on 06/27/2022 5:28:24 PM PDT by Morgana
California voters will decide in November whether to guarantee the right to an abortion in their state constitution, a question sure to boost turnout on both sides of the debate during a pivotal midterm election year as Democrats try to keep control of Congress after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The court’s ruling on Friday lets states decide for themselves whether to allow abortion. California is controlled by Democrats who support abortion rights, so access to the procedure won’t be threatened anytime soon.
But the legal right to an abortion in California is based upon the “right to privacy” in the state constitution. The Supreme Court’s ruling declared that a right to privacy does not guarantee the right to an abortion. California Democrats fear this ruling could leave the state’s abortion laws vulnerable to challenge in state courts.
To address that, state lawmakers on Monday agreed to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot this year that would leave no doubt about the status of abortion in California.
“While for now we may feel safe here in California, we cannot rest on our laurels,” said Assembly member Sabrina Cervantes, a Democrat from Riverside. “It is only a matter of time before this will directly affect you and the people you love.”
The amendment would declare that the state “shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives.”
It would become law only if a majority of voters approve it this November. Of California’s likely voters, 76% oppose overturning Roe v. Wade, according to a poll conducted in May by the Public Policy Institute of California.
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it is not a constitutional matter...it is a legislative matter.
I would love if Californians voted it down.
California is vulnerable to earthquakes, volcanoes, and tidal waves; at least that.
Probably time for any good people still residing there to start drifting out of the state without making any commotion.
Same here, that would be a riot. A REAL RIOT.
PLLLEEASE take all the murderesses from here in Texas. CA is already a hell-hole I am so glad I left.
It will be a magnet for people who think abortion is birth control.
I disagree with abortion and the baby killers will report to God eventually. In the meantime at least we have restored the 10th Amendment to some degree.
I’m surprised that California didn’t already have abortion on demand up to birth and 30 days afterwards.
CA can make it a CA constitutional issue if they take the steps the CA Constitution requires.
I believe CA has a right to privacy in the State Constitution. That may put the analysis on a different footing than if it were like the US Constitution.
I remember when CA voters approved a state Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage and a judge struck it down like it was nothing.
This is just crumbs from the state’s oligarchs to make Californians think they have a say in the process.
So the name of the amendment should be “Let’s kill babies “?
I understand. California is due to become a mecca for the abortion industry if they don’t act fast.
“And if you kill the fetus, a time will come when even infants will be killed…The mother will get frightened after the baby will be born…and the doctor will say her life depends upon the murder of the baby. And you have a word, mental hygiene, whatever you want you can subsume under mental hygiene…“
- Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Yep Judges will takeover abortion everywhere
Nope. Per the 10th amendment, those items not covered in the constitution are reserved for the states or local level. Putting it on a ballot is DEMOCRACY in action. It doesn’t need to be decided by the legislature.
>>I understand. California is due to become a mecca for the abortion industry if they don’t act fast.<<
Sadly that is a done deal. I listen to one of the most influential AM personalities in Texas and he and the Texas DA said it is very much within the realm of possibility that companies that subsidize abortion tourism could be charged and fined under Texas law.
This whole thing is going to be wild but thank GOD Texas and 23 other states support the sanctity of life.
“shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives.”
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So if I rape someone, and ‘refuse to use contraceptives’, that is constitutional?
Good something else to vote no on. The legislative sure put that out quick😱🤮
As they get to murder an unborn baby, they don't give a damn if it is Constitutional or not, Bob. That is the important thing to them, murdering a baby. Then get a sexual thrill from killing.
They’ll make abortions mandatory! Don;t doubt me!
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