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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 ...
Abortion is legal in California up to the point of fetal viability, or after that if necessary to preserve the life or health (including mental health) of the pregnant woman. Nurse-midwives and other non-physician qualified medical personnel with proper training may perform abortion procedures early in pregnancy.
Our coalition will fight all attempts to reinterpret rights or conform state law to what is now known as the nation's most extreme abortion amendment. The California Catholic Conference said that Proposition 1 "opened the door to unregulated, late-term abortions, all at taxpayer expense, redirecting state funding away from solutions for the ...
The abortion rate in California fell sharply for decades in California, going from about 44 legal abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 in 1991 to about 16 per 1,000 women in 2017, Guttmacher ...
The measure cements into the state Constitution current law on abortion, supporters say. Others disagree Column: Would California's abortion ballot measure allow late-term abortions?
"It’s more important than ever to fight like hell for those who need these essential services," Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
The abortion debate most commonly relates to the induced abortion of a pregnancy, which is also how the term "abortion" is used in a legal sense. [nb 1] The terms "elective abortion" and "voluntary abortion" refer to the interruption of pregnancy, before viability, at the request of the woman but not for medical reasons. [39]
Fontana and Beverly Hills are among the cities where local leaders have opposed the construction of abortion clinics. A new state law aims to make them easier to build.