By Kristen Welker, Alexandra Marquez and Sally Bronston -
NBC News
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's Political Action Committee will have a new abortion TV ad this week targeting "Trump Republicans" in Tennessee.
The Democracy Campaign ad, which was shared earlier with NBC News'
Meet the Press
, shows a young woman handcuffed in a hospital bed screaming for help, while a narrator tells viewers: "Republicans Trump administration wants to criminalize young women who travel to receive the reproductive care they need. Don't let them take the women of Tennessee hostage."
[Trump defends in vitro fertilization after Republican troubles over the court ruling in Alabama]
"These guys are not only restricting the rights, the self-determination of a young woman to have a child, but they are also determining her destiny as far as her future in life is concerned by saying that they can't even travel (to get an abortion )," Newsom said on
Meet the Press.
The Democracy Campaign plans to advertise in Tennessee for two bills active in the state legislature, one in the House and one in the Senate, that would criminalize "abortion trafficking" or helping minors obtain abortion. procedure without parental consent.
The bills propose that any violation of the laws, which would criminalize "recruiting, harboring or transporting a pregnant minor in the state, for the purpose of concealing an abortion from the parents of said minor" would be a class C felony, which would be punishable by a minimum of six years in prison.
"These travel restrictions [are] modeled after a version that passed in Idaho and is now being proposed in Tennessee, Oklahoma and Mississippi," according to Newsom.
[Woman plans to take her frozen embryos out of Texas for fear that the same thing will happen in Alabama]
"This is how serious this moment is and we need to be even more aggressive
," he added.
The announcement comes just a week after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos are babies, jeopardizing
in vitro
fertilization and other forms of fertilization care in the state.
Gavin Newsom.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
"It's not just a war on travel. It's not just a war on reproductive health, it's also a war on women in the broadest sense," Newsom said.
The Democracy Campaign plans to run similar ads in other states where abortion travel restrictions are being considered, including Oklahoma, Mississippi and Alabama.