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California is mobilizing to protect women and their right to abortion

2022-05-03T21:55:10.097Z


Protect tooth and nail the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy and welcome all women who do not have access to it in their State: the...


Protect tooth and nail the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy and welcome all women who do not have access to it in their state: California sounded the general mobilization on Tuesday May 3 after the revelation of a draft decision of the Court supreme going back on this achievement.

"Our daughters, sisters, mothers and grandmothers will not be silenced

," California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom tweeted.

“The world is about to hear their anger.

California will not sit idly by.

We are going to fight like devils

,” he promised, shortly after the publication of the document by the Politico site on Monday evening.

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In the process, the governor and the leaders of the parliament of the most populous and wealthy American state announced

“an amendment to enshrine the right to choose in the Constitution of our State”

.

“We know we cannot trust the Supreme Court to protect reproductive rights, so California will erect a firewall around this right in our Constitution

,” they write.

Certainly, this amendment, which should be put to the vote during the mid-term elections next November, will essentially have a symbolic significance, multiple laws already guaranteeing the right to abortion on Californian soil.

But that is precisely the purpose of this announcement: to let all women residing in states that would hasten to restrict or even ban abortion know that California, a Democratic stronghold, will continue to welcome them.

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“We will not abandon the women and families affected by the regressive and irresponsible policies of other states

,” interim California Senate President Toni Atkins promised at a press conference on Tuesday, committing to this. that “California continues to be a beacon of hope” for them.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, if the Supreme Court decides in a few weeks to reverse the “Roe v.

Wade” of 1973 (according to which the American Constitution guarantees the right of women to have an abortion as long as the fetus is not “viable”), 26 American states would decide “certainly or probably” to prohibit abortion on their territory.

A study recently published in the American Journal of Public Health concludes that nearly one in four women in the United States will have an abortion before they reach the age of 45.

"It's not going to suddenly stop because extremist politicians have issued bans, this need will remain!"

, thundered Jodi Hicks, president of the organization Planned Parenthood in California, which administers about half of the 165 abortion centers in this state.

"It's about dignity, people's health and their trajectory into the future

," she insists, citing the case of destitute and vulnerable young women who will be forced to travel out of state to have an abortion. .

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“We know well that this type of ban disproportionately affects low-income people, people of color (…) We also know that people who want an abortion and who are refused it have four times more more likely than others to end up in poverty

,” Ms. Hicks adds.

Planned Parenthood says it has treated at least 80 out-of-state patients every month in California since last September, when Texas dramatically tightened abortion requirements.

Its Mar Monte branch, which covers northern California and neighboring Nevada, is preparing to accommodate between 250 and 500 additional patients per week if “Roe v.

Wade” is broken.

A new abortion center will be opened in Reno, near the airport and other transport hubs, to facilitate the arrival of women from other states, says Planned Parenthood on its website.

California, which had distinguished itself by its fierce opposition to the ultra-conservative policy of former President Donald Trump, had already adopted in 2014 legislation forcing employers and private insurance to include reimbursement for abortions in their health coverage. .

Source: lefigaro

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