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On May 31, 2019, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation explaining California's abortion laws, and encouraged women from states seeking to restrict a woman's ability to get an abortion to come to California for an abortion if she needs one. The statement read in part, "California will continue to uphold women's equality and ...
In May 1982, California Attorney General George Deukmejian stated the gestation limit of the 1967 California abortion law was considered unenforceable because of conflicts with the 23-week Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973, but fetuses could be individually examined to determine viability, which was the legal limit.
Ziegler is the author of multiple books on the history of abortion in the United States. [8] Her first, After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate, won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first manuscript in any discipline from Harvard University Press [9] and was reviewed in The Economist. [10] Her second book, Beyond Abortion ...
California has the nation's strongest abortion protections, but as Trump prepares to take the White House again, Democratic lawmakers say not enough has been done to secure reproductive access.
‘As quick as 5 minutes in California or as grueling as 11 hours in Texas’: Research reveals new post-Dobbs map of abortion access driving times Sara Estep May 24, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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The State Legislature amended California's abortion law in 1967 with the Therapeutic Abortion Act, signed by Governor Ronald Reagan in June, which extended the right to an abortion in cases of rape and incest up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. [5] In 1969, the California Supreme Court issued a ruling in People v.
March 28, 2024 at 6:00 AM ... Medication abortion could be offered for only 49 days from the start of a patient's last period, instead of up to 10 weeks as it is today. ... California has also ...