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Sterilization law is the area of law, that concerns a person's purported right to choose or refuse reproductive sterilization and when a given government may limit it. In the United States, it is typically understood to touch on federal and state constitutional law, statutory law, administrative law, and common law.
There have been several deaths in California as a result of illegal abortions, including 35 in 1966 and 1967. California uses its own funds to cover all "medically necessary" abortions sought by low-income women under Medicaid. 88,466 were state-funded in 2010. California has an active abortion rights activist community.
[8] [9] Through Proposition 11, the California Supreme Court ruled in Committee to Defend Reproductive Rights v. Myers in 1981 that the constitutionally protected right to privacy included the right to choose whether to have an abortion, [10] preventing Medi-Cal from restricting abortion coverage. [6]
Proponents of three anti-transgender proposed ballot initiatives have six months to collect more than half a million valid voter signatures.
Previous similar bills have been rejected on at least four other occasions in the state of California and residents voted against a proposal in a ballot in 1992, [6] however a report published by Compassion and Choices collating more recent regional and national independent opinion polls on the right to die issue shows that the US public consistently supports or strongly supports medical aid ...
Voters rolled back reform by passing Proposition 36 and ousting progressive prosecutors in L.A. and the Bay Area. But we shouldn't return to harmful lock-'em-up policies.
In 2022, Congress set up a two-year program to reimburse victims, but that program expired, and Congress shuttered it, saying state agencies can choose to replace benefits using their funds.
2002 – The California State Legislature passed a law that said: "The state may not deny or interfere with a woman's right to choose or obtain an abortion prior to viability of the fetus, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman." [125] [99]