California steps into the post-Roe future

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Golden State, along with a number of Democratic strongholds, has been working to shore up its abortion protections in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

But no other state has created such a comprehensive strategy — a legislative bill package with more than a dozen proposals, new funding to expand abortion access and a proposed November ballot measure that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.

"ABORTION STAYS LEGAL IN CA," Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted Friday morning, lamenting that "This is not the America we know."

The Supreme Court decision, on a 5-4 vote, clears the way for more than half the states in the country to swiftly ban the procedure, a move that puts great pressure on states where abortion will still be legal. California wants to be an abortion haven for pregnant people living under new laws hostile to abortion.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-steps-into-the-post-roe-future/ar-AAYQ715

[FirstLight]

1. I'm already offering any friends to come here if they need to...

Got an air mattress and an extra room.

Makes me think we're gonna end up having a "undergraound railroad" for abortion, reproduction AND LGBT rights....

What also has me chafed is that they do this shit when the rest of us are up to the gills with SURVIVAL as inflation and gas and everything else is going to shit and all we can collectively do is try to live our little lives...I personally dont have the "oomph" to protest or do any activism.
(and it's not for lack of wanting to, but PHYSICALLY and Financially being UNABLE to)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I am proud of my state's actions to preserve a woman's right to an abortion!

Bravo to Governor Newsom!

[regnaD kciN]

3. A California constitutional amendment...

…won’t mean shit if Republicans take over Congress and the White House (which, as we all now know, they can do without winning in 2024 as long as they hold Congressional majorities) and pass a federal law banning it nationwide.