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California will decide in November whether to elevate the right to abortion to the local Constitution

2022-06-28T02:49:55.904Z


The State of New Mexico joins others defending the right of women to terminate pregnancy Californians will be able to decide at the polls whether they want to bring the defense of abortion to the local constitution. The state Congress voted this Monday for the proposal to be on the ballot in the November legislative elections, an election that has been revolutionized since the US Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade in a controversial ruling on Friday. The court ruling has left the coun


Californians will be able to decide at the polls whether they want to bring the defense of abortion to the local constitution.

The state Congress voted this Monday for the proposal to be on the ballot in the November legislative elections, an election that has been revolutionized since the US Supreme Court repealed

Roe v. Wade

in a controversial ruling on Friday.

The court ruling has left the country with a weekend full of street protests in various cities and the promise of several Democratic politicians, including the governor of New Mexico, to defend access to a right that will be taken from millions of women .

Local Senator Toni Atkins was the one who proposed putting the constitutional amendment on the ballot.

Abortion is protected by local laws thanks to the right to privacy.

The ruling of the conservative majority on Friday, however, determined that this right does not guarantee access to an abortion.

For this reason, the Democrats believe that the Republicans and other conservative groups may subject the local regulations to several judicial disputes in the coming months.

Raising the right to the local constitution would further protect women's choice over their bodies.

Atkins's suggested amendment will declare that the state "shall not deny or interfere with an individual's reproductive freedom or any of his or her most intimate decisions."

This includes, of course, "the fundamental right to have an abortion and the fundamental right to take or not take contraception."

"We have to do everything possible to tell the rest of the world that California is a State that protects the reproductive rights of all," said Congresswoman Buffy Wicks, who has confessed in the Assembly that she had an abortion when she was 25 years old in order to develop her career.

Likewise, the State of Vermont, in the east of the country and also a progressive enclave, will ask voters in the legislative elections if abortion should be given constitutional protection.

Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a series of executive orders aimed at strengthening abortion rights in California.

On Friday, after the controversial ruling that came out of Washington, the Democratic president announced a law that protects health centers and abortion clinics from civil lawsuits filed by third parties in states that criminalize the interruption of pregnancy.

Newsom's measure is intended to provide security to thousands of women who will arrive in California from other states to exercise a right that has been endorsed by

Roe v. Wade

since 1973. A study by the University of California at Los Angeles estimates that between 8,000 and 16,000 patients from other states each year.

The state budget also gives the authorities 200 million dollars to guarantee access to this right.

Resources can be allocated to women who cannot pay for the procedure, support for health personnel and the construction of a website with all the information related to the subject.

“California will not turn over patients who come here for abortions or reproductive care.

We will not cooperate with investigations or politicians from other states who attempt to extradite physicians who provide this service," Newsom said in a message on social media issued Monday.

New Mexico Joins Sanctuary States

The Mississippi clinic that lost the Supreme Court abortion case announced Friday that it will open a new facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

This region, controlled by the Democrats, has been added this Monday to the list of blue regions that promise to give guarantees to women seeking abortions.

Minnesota and Massachusetts have enacted similar laws after the Court's ruling.

The governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, has signed an executive order this morning that protects the patients and the abortion clinics of the entity.

The rule also establishes the protection of clinics, doctors and nurses, who will not be extradited to be prosecuted in States that, like Texas, severely punish the interruption of pregnancy.

“As long as I am governor, abortion will continue to be legal, safe and accessible in New Mexico,” said Lujan, who is running for office in the November elections and is in the midst of a fundraising campaign.

With the threat of the Supreme Court hanging over

Roe v. Wade

, Lujan Grisham prepared the defense of this right by repealing an old local law prior to the emblematic federal regulation that would have criminalized doctors and health workers who performed abortions in New Mexico.

“The [Supreme] ruling will destroy lives and the livelihood of several families,” the president said on Friday.

“Make no mistake, this is a war against women.

The objective is not to protect life, but to diminish it, control women and relegate them to being second class citizens”.

Source: elparis

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