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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California's Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that the state constitution protects abortion, but the new proposal from Democrats would actually add an amendment to specifically list the procedure as a right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1972, California voters added a right to privacy to the constitution. One year later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that the U.S. Constitution's implied right to privacy protects a woman's right to choose an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Keller, president of the California Family Council, which opposes abortion, said the proposed amendment would be \"redundant\" because of the California court's previous rulings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it just shows how this is a fixation for the Democrats in Sacramento that crowds out a lot of focus on other issues that are really concerning,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case from Mississippi over that state's ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. California's Democratic leaders and abortion-rights activists were alarmed last month by the leak of a draft court opinion that declared abortion has no \"sound basis in precedent.\" That opinion could change when the court issues a final ruling later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Recent events have shown us that we must take every measure imaginable to ensure the right to abortion remains possible in California,\" said Jodi Hicks, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California. \"No judge, or politician, should be able to rob people of their power to control their own bodies, their own lives, their own futures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constitutional amendment is among 13 proposed laws California Democrats have put forward this year designed to make California a sanctuary for pregnant people who live in states where abortion could soon be outlawed or severely restricted if the high court strikes down Roe. All the proposals have passed at least one legislative chamber, putting them on track to be signed into law later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment requires two-thirds approval in the Senate and Assembly, a threshold that should be easy for Democrats to meet because they control both by wide margins. Lawmakers have to act quickly, however, because the deadline to put the issue on the fall ballot is June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update Friday: The decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was announced on June 24, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>California guarantees the right to abortion in statute and the state constitution. Our state’s abortion laws are the strongest in the United States. Both officials and abortion providers have made it very clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917111/even-without-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-still-legal-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">abortion access in California will not change\u003c/a> because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Read more about the overturning of Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early May, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913033/heres-what-could-happen-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned\">a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> signaled that the high court was planning to overturn Roe v. Wade — the 1973 decision that guarantees at least some degree of abortion access in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, in the coming weeks — sometime in June — the court will announce its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/19-1392.html\">a case from Mississippi that weighs whether bans on abortion before fetal viability are constitutional\u003c/a>. If a majority of justices support that proposition, as appears more than likely, the court will effectively reverse nearly 50 years of legal standing, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913033/heres-what-could-happen-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned\">giving individual states the power to ban any and all abortion procedures\u003c/a> if they see fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jump to: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Want to share your own story?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the leaked draft was published, KQED Forum host \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889084/women-who-have-had-abortions-reflect-on-a-world-without-roe\">Marisa Lagos spoke with the following advocates and academics \u003c/a>about the monumental implications of a post-Roe world:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Renee Bracey Sherman\u003c/strong>, founder and executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wetestify.org/\">We Testify\u003c/a>, an organization dedicated to the leadership and representation of those who have abortions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rana E. Barar\u003c/strong>, senior program manager at UCSF researching long-term effects on women who have had abortions\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Carol King\u003c/strong>, longtime feminist advocate and former national board member, National Organization for Women (NOW), and former executive director, Michigan Abortion Rights Action League (now NARAL Pro-Choice America)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And because people seek abortions for a wide range of reasons, many Forum listeners also called into the show to share their thoughts and their own experiences. We're grateful to them for doing so. (\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#share\">Want to share your own story?\u003c/a>)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for highlights of the conversation, or \u003ca href=\"#listeners\">jump to listener stories\u003c/a>. You can also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13912860/roe-v-wade-where-to-donate-abortion-reproductive-rights-supreme-court\">learn about ways to support abortion access\u003c/a>, within California and further afield, in this \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13912860/roe-v-wade-where-to-donate-abortion-reproductive-rights-supreme-court\">guide from KQED Arts and Culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These interviews have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Building 'a culture of love and support'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renee Bracey Sherman:\u003c/strong> [We Testify] was founded back in 2016, the summer right before the election — because we knew that no matter who became president, abortion access was still going to be under attack across the states, across the country.[aside postID=\"news_11913295\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We knew that we needed to change the conversation and really build a culture of love and support for people who have abortions — and particularly elevating the voices of people of color who've had abortions, queer folks, undocumented folks, formerly incarcerated folks [...] \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of us who have abortions, to make sure that our voices were part of the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had my abortion at age 19. I'm a biracial Black woman, and I actually didn't know any other Black women who had abortions other than the rapper Lil' Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sharing my story publicly, I met so many other people of color who've had abortions. And then, of course, so many other people in my family who shared their abortion stories. And four years after I shared my abortion story, my mother told me that she also had an abortion before me. And so her ability to access abortion care in the early 1980s made it so that \u003cem>my\u003c/em> life was possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, my parents would talk to me about all of my options, and I knew that abortion was a valid option. I'd heard my mom say it to one of my friends at one point, so I knew what I needed to do — and I wanted an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was actually a really easy decision for me, because I knew I did not want to be pregnant, I did not want to parent, and that if I continued this pregnancy, I would be stuck in this relationship and not able to do all of the things that put me on the path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916163\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11916163\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55685_011_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55685_011_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55685_011_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55685_011_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55685_011_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55685_011_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Priyanka Patel holds a sign that says 'Abortion Is a Civil Right' during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, as part of a nationwide response against the leaked draft of the Supreme Court's decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Renee Bracey Sherman\"]'Whatever health care you get, you should be having a loving and supported and respected experience, and that should be the norm, not the exception.'[/pullquote]My abortion: I mean, I say it's some of the best health care I've ever had in my life, because the nurses, the clinic staff were so kind and welcoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was really amazing. And now not everybody's experience is that way, right? Because I work with some storytellers who've had not-so-great experiences — particularly if someone's pressuring them \u003cem>not\u003c/em> to have an abortion. And so they don't feel supported. Or I've worked with storytellers who are trans and nonbinary, and maybe don't have their gender identity represented — or recognized and respected — at the clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever health care you get, you should be having a loving and supported and respected experience, and that should be the norm, not the exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When someone decides to share their abortion story with the world … it is the most beautiful thing. They are stepping into a space, into a culture, that tells them that everything about their experience, their voice, everything that they did, does not deserve to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's just so beautiful to hear brave folks sharing their stories and saying, \"Yeah, I did this and I don't want to feel alone any more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'An act of love'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rana E. Barar:\u003c/strong> I had an abortion when I was 40 and my kids were 10 and 14 at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, it was really about my existing children and about the amount of attention I wanted to be able to give them as they entered their tween and teen years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A colleague of mine at UCSF, Jen Kerns, said something really profound that resonated with me. She said, \"You know, for many people seeking abortions, it's an act of love for themselves and for their existing children.\" And I think that's very much true for moms who have abortions. And it certainly was for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spent more than a decade working on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/15/1098347992/a-landmark-study-tracks-the-lasting-effect-of-having-an-abortion-or-being-denied\">The Turnaway Study, where we followed a thousand women across the United States for five years\u003c/a>. They either had abortions or were turned away because they were past the gestational limit of the clinic where they sought care. And we followed them for five years with interviews every six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We found that there were serious consequences for women and their children of being denied a wanted abortion. For example, people who are in violent relationships and seek abortion because they do not want to be tethered to that abusive partner are more likely to stay in violent relationships, or to stay and continue to have violence in their lives if they are turned away from a wanted abortion. People who are turned away are more likely to have to live in poverty for at least five years after the abortion.[aside postID=\"news_11909017\"]I think women experience a range of emotions about abortion. Mine was a very uncomplicated decision for me and my partner. And I don't have regret about it, but I do have mixed feelings about it. I think just like any other life event, people experience a range of emotions — and that those emotions reduce the intensity over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are a range of feelings about all kinds of decisions ... legislating how people feel about things is impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'I still remember how frightened I was'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carol King: \u003c/strong>I was the first person in my family to go to college. [In 1968] my father had died the year before, and I got pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the most terrifying time of my life, and I still remember how frightened I was. I went to a doctor and had my very first gynecological examination when he told me I was pregnant. I left his office in shock and disbelief — and a little bit of denial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stigma attached to single motherhood and unplanned pregnancies and unwed motherhood at that time — well, we've lost some of that, thankfully. But at the time, in 1968, it was horrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started bleeding, and I was told that I should stay in bed and take it easy and that would help me save the pregnancy. Which I did the exact opposite. I was in the dormitory on the fifth floor, and I ran around from one staircase to the other ... I did that, hoping that that would sort of end the pregnancy for me. I begged my roommate to kick me in the stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody would do that. But fortunately for me, I had a spontaneous abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These women on my [college dorm room] floor came and sat with me as I sat on the toilet in the dormitory and sat with me, talked to me, held my hand and hugged me when I start crying and supported me until I had a miscarriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have never been so frightened in my life. I have never before or since thought of suicide. But it was what I considered to be an option at that time. Fortunately, I didn't need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55674_GettyImages-1240412755-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holds large sign saying 'you can't stop abortion' along with other protesters with supreme court building in background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55674_GettyImages-1240412755-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55674_GettyImages-1240412755-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55674_GettyImages-1240412755-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55674_GettyImages-1240412755-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55674_GettyImages-1240412755-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abortion-rights supporters rally in front of the US Supreme Court on May 2, 2022, after a draft opinion was released indicating that the court is likely to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed federal protections for abortion. \u003ccite>(Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>'Women are the best placed to know the circumstances of their lives'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Renee Bracey Sherman:\u003c/strong> People tend to feel complicated feelings about, as Rana mentioned, everything that was surrounding their abortion decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe not having wanted to be pregnant at all, or maybe having wanted to parent, but because our nation has no paid parental leave across the nation, no universal child care, no universal basic income. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic\">Diapers aren't even covered on WIC.\u003c/a> They feel pressured to make a decision that if they had maybe more money, they would make a different decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then also there are those of us who, no matter how much money we had, we simply didn't \u003cem>want\u003c/em> to be pregnant. And all of that is OK. We need to make space for us to be able to talk about it and see that it is not the place of the government to make that decision for us.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Renee Bracey Sherman\"]'Women are the best placed to know the circumstances of their lives.'[/pullquote]Women are the best placed to know the circumstances of their lives. All the reasons that women give for wanting an abortion play out in the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just think about how many families would be or not be in the way that they are, if abortion was not accessible. As The Turnaway Study shows, people who are denied abortions end up having children ... most go on to [be] parents and do go [on] to love their children. That is what is really important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, it's still not the life that they would have chosen for themselves or for their children — especially in a country that does not have any sort of social safety nets to speak of for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"listeners\">\u003c/a>Forum listeners share their stories\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listener comments have been lightly edited for length and clarity. Some listeners chose to remain anonymous.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm of Korean descent and got an abortion in September, around the time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1033202132/texas-abortion-ban-what-happens-next\">the Texas law\u003c/a> [that banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy] went in. And it was a very considered decision, the toughest decision of my life. But I made the decision that was right for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My period was late by one week and the abortion [was] a couple of weeks later. It was just a “yolk” at the time, and it was just suctioned out of me. And the doctor who did the procedure at a clinic, [did] it through UCSF, was just like, \"This is one of the safest procedures in the world.\" The whole procedure took about a few hours because that also included time to take muscle relaxants, and really make a considered decision about it. They asked me several times, \"Are you sure?\" And I said yes. And my partner held my hand, and it was suctioned out of me, and it was way less painful than getting an IUD inserted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what this really tells me with this Roe v. Wade situation is that the vested effort to control women — they don't freaking care about women, or even the subsequent children that we could potentially have, because the country doesn't even support families. So it's just a form of legislative rape, in my opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Joyce, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is actually not about me. This is about my mom in 1970 in Ohio, before Roe v. Wade was passed to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was a 19-year-old college student who was with my dad and she got pregnant and needed to have an abortion. She reached out to a friend whose mother put her in touch with a \"sympathetic psychiatrist\" who she had to then present suicidal ideation [to] as a means to seek an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only way ... was to convince a psychiatrist that it was in her best interest to end the pregnancy, and the psychiatrist put her in touch with an OB-GYN who did perform the procedure in a really safe way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think if Roe v. Wade is overturned, we're looking at an even worse outcome than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Erin, Marin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913452\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of women marchers hold signs reading 'demand reproductive justice now' and 'women are not breeders' and 'my body my choice'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march on Market Street in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, during a rally for abortion rights following a leaked draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although I haven't had an abortion myself, I've had four miscarriages, and the one at 16 weeks was kind of unbearable for a few days. Because abortions are so restrictive, I couldn't access the medical care I wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can go to Planned Parenthood, but there's waiting lists and stuff. And they couldn't just get me in the next day. And that's not their fault. That's the way it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think people think abortion is more convenient than it is. It's not convenient. It's not accessible. And even for people who want to have kids, it would be nice [for it] to be less restrictive so you can get [the procedure done at] any doctor's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Emily, Fairfield\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a woman who's had two abortions when I was very young, let's make this about what it's really about: body sovereignty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really implore you to fight back against this crazy narrative that this is about having an abortion or not having an abortion. It is unequivocally not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make the discussion about what it really is: body sovereignty and the right to choose. By buying into this other narrative, you're simply strengthening the anti-choice movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Anonymous\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to keep talking about abortion openly to end the shame. 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I chose to have children after I was in a secure and loving relationship 20 years later, and I have no regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Anonymous\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913108\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold a sign that says 'There's Blood on Your Gavels' during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was 15 years old — this was way before Roe versus Wade — I got pregnant. My mother — and she was so supportive and loving — knew what this meant to me as a 15-year-old. Of course, there were no safe legal abortions in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a friend — God love her friend, who just passed away about a month ago — who knew a doctor in Juarez, Mexico. So, I flew there with her friend. Her friend was so kind and loving with me and took me to this doctor that she knew ... in a dark back alley at about 10:30 at night. And she took me into this small little clinic. The lights, it was dark, but they were shining right on the bed. And this doctor had on a white coat, and he performed an abortion. And I lived. And that was terrifying for me. It was traumatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through: having an unsafe, illegal abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— \u003ca href=\"https://lee.house.gov/\">Representative Barbara Lee\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was 24, I was a fundamentalist Christian missionary and I was told I couldn't have sex until I was married. And that was very hard at 24. I didn't want to admit, though, that I was going to have sex, because that would have sinned against God. So instead of using contraceptives, we just went ahead and had sex. And of course I got pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I [was] determined to have an abortion. I'm still childless. I really wanted to have kids in my life, and yet I don't for a second — one second — feel badly about this abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was absolutely the right choice for me, for the guy I was with, for my family in the background. Like, what would they have done to deal with it? It just was not a good time to have a baby. It would have been horrible for that child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Removing the guilt is so crucial, which is why I'm so glad we're telling our stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Elizabeth, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had an abortion at the age of 26. I was a practicing drug addict and alcoholic. There was no way I could have taken care of a baby. I couldn't take care of myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did go on to change my life and completely turn it around and eventually have a family. But I never regretted that decision at all. And I have been able to counsel my son, who just became 20. He just became physically, intimately active last year. I was able to counsel him with his girlfriend on protection, and we’re very open about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I just imagine that so many of those stories would change, if this right that we currently have is taken away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Hunter, Sebastopol\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11917008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/abortionillustration-02.png\" alt=\"An illustration showing four figures, three of which are embracing each other. Their faces show a range of emotions. A large lily flower is in the foreground.\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/abortionillustration-02.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/abortionillustration-02-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/abortionillustration-02-160x107.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"share\">\u003c/a>Share your voice with us\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you're looking for a space to share your thoughts, or tell your own story about abortion, KQED Public Radio's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/perspectives\">\u003cem>Perspectives\u003c/em>\u003c/a> series — our morning series that lets listeners have their say in their own words — wants to hear from you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you feel about living in a nation without Roe v. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Women are the best placed to know the circumstances of their lives. All the reasons that women give for wanting an abortion play out in the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just think about how many families would be or not be in the way that they are, if abortion was not accessible. As The Turnaway Study shows, people who are denied abortions end up having children ... most go on to [be] parents and do go [on] to love their children. That is what is really important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, it's still not the life that they would have chosen for themselves or for their children — especially in a country that does not have any sort of social safety nets to speak of for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"listeners\">\u003c/a>Forum listeners share their stories\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listener comments have been lightly edited for length and clarity. Some listeners chose to remain anonymous.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm of Korean descent and got an abortion in September, around the time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1033202132/texas-abortion-ban-what-happens-next\">the Texas law\u003c/a> [that banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy] went in. And it was a very considered decision, the toughest decision of my life. But I made the decision that was right for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My period was late by one week and the abortion [was] a couple of weeks later. It was just a “yolk” at the time, and it was just suctioned out of me. And the doctor who did the procedure at a clinic, [did] it through UCSF, was just like, \"This is one of the safest procedures in the world.\" The whole procedure took about a few hours because that also included time to take muscle relaxants, and really make a considered decision about it. They asked me several times, \"Are you sure?\" And I said yes. And my partner held my hand, and it was suctioned out of me, and it was way less painful than getting an IUD inserted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what this really tells me with this Roe v. Wade situation is that the vested effort to control women — they don't freaking care about women, or even the subsequent children that we could potentially have, because the country doesn't even support families. So it's just a form of legislative rape, in my opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Joyce, Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is actually not about me. This is about my mom in 1970 in Ohio, before Roe v. Wade was passed to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was a 19-year-old college student who was with my dad and she got pregnant and needed to have an abortion. She reached out to a friend whose mother put her in touch with a \"sympathetic psychiatrist\" who she had to then present suicidal ideation [to] as a means to seek an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only way ... was to convince a psychiatrist that it was in her best interest to end the pregnancy, and the psychiatrist put her in touch with an OB-GYN who did perform the procedure in a really safe way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think if Roe v. Wade is overturned, we're looking at an even worse outcome than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Erin, Marin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913452\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of women marchers hold signs reading 'demand reproductive justice now' and 'women are not breeders' and 'my body my choice'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march on Market Street in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, during a rally for abortion rights following a leaked draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although I haven't had an abortion myself, I've had four miscarriages, and the one at 16 weeks was kind of unbearable for a few days. Because abortions are so restrictive, I couldn't access the medical care I wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can go to Planned Parenthood, but there's waiting lists and stuff. And they couldn't just get me in the next day. And that's not their fault. That's the way it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think people think abortion is more convenient than it is. It's not convenient. It's not accessible. And even for people who want to have kids, it would be nice [for it] to be less restrictive so you can get [the procedure done at] any doctor's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Emily, Fairfield\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a woman who's had two abortions when I was very young, let's make this about what it's really about: body sovereignty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I really implore you to fight back against this crazy narrative that this is about having an abortion or not having an abortion. It is unequivocally not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make the discussion about what it really is: body sovereignty and the right to choose. By buying into this other narrative, you're simply strengthening the anti-choice movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Anonymous\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to keep talking about abortion openly to end the shame. The anti-abortion movement thrives on secrecy, stigma and making you feel alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Noelle\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1972, weeks prior to my 18th birthday and high school graduation, I was unknowingly drugged by a fellow classmate while on a first date. He drove me to a familiar field near a winery and took advantage of my inability to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly eight weeks later, via the county health department, I was able to secure an abortion. But due to the political climate of blaming the victim, I refused to name my assailant. As a result, I found the female staff who were able to explain that I'd been drugged more compassionate than the male doctors who treated me with disdain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were stories shared by other women in the post-surgery room that still stick with [me] — including several with large families who did not have the ability to support another child. I chose to have children after I was in a secure and loving relationship 20 years later, and I have no regrets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>— Anonymous\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913108\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold a sign that says 'There's Blood on Your Gavels' during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I was 15 years old — this was way before Roe versus Wade — I got pregnant. My mother — and she was so supportive and loving — knew what this meant to me as a 15-year-old. Of course, there were no safe legal abortions in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a friend — God love her friend, who just passed away about a month ago — who knew a doctor in Juarez, Mexico. So, I flew there with her friend. Her friend was so kind and loving with me and took me to this doctor that she knew ... in a dark back alley at about 10:30 at night. And she took me into this small little clinic. The lights, it was dark, but they were shining right on the bed. And this doctor had on a white coat, and he performed an abortion. And I lived. And that was terrifying for me. It was traumatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through: having an unsafe, illegal abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While half the states in the U.S. plan to ban or restrict abortion care if and when the Supreme Court overturns \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roe v. Wade\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, California is positioning itself to be an abortion sanctuary and preparing to welcome patients from around the country.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state’s Democratic \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafabcouncil.org/post/california-future-of-abortion-council-announces-support-for-package-of-legislation\">Legislature is considering 13 bills\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that would: reduce the costs of abortion, make abortions easier to access, and protect people in the state who have an abortion, or who help provide one, from law enforcement action. The governor is pledging $125 million in state funds to back these efforts.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The goal is to really enshrine and ensure that California is a reproductive freedom state for all,” said Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the 46\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">th\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> anniversary of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roe\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in 2019, Wicks became the first woman to tell her own abortion story on the floor of the California Assembly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was 26 years old, in between jobs and in between homes,” she said in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/buffywicks/status/1113547847595483136?s=21&t=vWMzbvJxYEkuQZhNuRIIVA\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the 2019 speech\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “Staying on a friend’s couch, unemployed and facing an unplanned pregnancy was a vulnerable time in my life.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wicks went on to work for Barack Obama for six years, then later won her seat in California’s Legislature. She’s now 44 and has two young daughters.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“For me, having an abortion was an empowering decision, one that I have never regretted,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her personal reproductive health needs have continued to influence her work. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/BuffyWicks/status/1466580538643288065\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One day last September\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, she was preparing lunch at her kitchen counter, chopping lettuce, carrots and avocado, when she felt a sudden wave of severe cramping in her abdomen. Then she started bleeding — a lot. She rushed to her doctor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Turns out, I was pregnant and having a miscarriage. And [my doctor] said, ‘We need to do an emergency abortion procedure, a D and C,'” Wicks said, referring to the medical procedure that is used for both abortion and miscarriage.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This was all happening right after Texas banned abortions after 6 weeks and allowed members of the public to sue physicians who performed them. Wicks asked her doctor if she would have been able to get the procedure she’d just received if she lived in Texas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The doctor told her, legally, it was permitted because the pregnancy wasn’t viable. But in reality, the chilling effect of the law was making doctors too scared to perform these procedures. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wicks asked herself what she would have done: Stay home and deal with the potential health implications? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Friday June 24:\u003c/strong> The Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, announced today, overturns Roe v. Wade and eliminates the constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California guarantees the right to abortion in statute and the state constitution. Our state’s abortion laws are the strongest in the United States. Both officials and abortion providers have made it very clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917111/even-without-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-still-legal-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">abortion access in California will not change\u003c/a> because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Read more about the overturning of Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\">a draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion\u003c/a> leaked to Politico suggested that the court’s conservative majority is on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed the federal constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the impact on abortion access would be most immediately felt in those \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913033\">states where leaders have already made clear their intention to restrict abortion, or ban it altogether\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities of color and queer people in those states — specifically transgender people — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096365879/roe-wade-abortion-transgender-scotus-marriage-contraceptives-privacy-rights\">would be especially affected if Roe v. Wade is revoked, advocates say\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We see reproductive rights and abortion rights [as] central to the queer community and not something separate from the queer community,\" said Rebecca Rolfe, executive director of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaked draft opinion and the legal argument it's based on also are raising deep concern about future effects on other rights Americans hold — including marriage equality, access to contraception and interracial marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#legality\">Why does the SCOTUS draft opinion potentially affect other rights beyond abortion?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, President Joe Biden said he believed the reasoning contained in the draft opinion \"would mean that every other decision related to the notion of privacy is thrown into question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rebecca Rolfe, executive director, San Francisco LGBT Community Center\"]'We see reproductive rights and abortion rights [as] central to the queer community and not something separate from the queer community.'[/pullquote]Such a decision, Biden said, could threaten \"a whole range of rights ... and the idea we're letting the states make those decisions, localities make those decisions would be a fundamental shift in what we've done.\" Biden specifically said he was concerned about challenges to contraception and the legality of same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom echoed these fears on Wednesday, at an appearance at a Planned Parenthood office in Los Angeles. Newsom said the Supreme Court was \"poised to roll back constitutionally protected rights, and don’t think for a second — don’t think for a second — this is where they stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are coming after you,\" said Newsom. \"You think for a second same-sex marriage is safe in the United States? If privacy is not constitutionally protected, this opens up a panoply of issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"legality\">\u003c/a>How overturning Roe v. Wade could affect LGBTQ+ rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Why do people fear that the overturning of Roe v. Wade could have knock-on effects for other rights, including same-sex marriage?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR political correspondent \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/supreme-court-abortion-roe-wade-2022-05-05#democrats-warn-that-an-end-to-roe-could-threaten-other-freedoms-heres-why\">Danielle Kurtzleben explains\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A central idea in Roe is that abortion is an \"unenumerated right,\" meaning the Constitution protects it even if it doesn't explicitly say so. It's also protected by the 14th Amendment, which the Supreme Court has used to protect peoples' right to privacy in other forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his draft opinion, Justice Samuel Alito argues that when the 14th Amendment was passed back in 1868, American law did not recognize abortion as a fundamental right, and therefore the right to access one is not protected.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So as legal historian Mary Ziegler told NPR, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/supreme-court-abortion-roe-wade-2022-05-05#democrats-warn-that-an-end-to-roe-could-threaten-other-freedoms-heres-why\">Justice Alito's logic could be carried over to other rights Americans hold\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1868, when the 14th Amendment was written, neither same-sex nor interracial couples could legally marry — and birth control was criminalized. So the logic, says Ziegler, is \"if that's how we determine where our constitutional rights begin and end, there's no reason that would stop with abortion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the draft opinion he authored, Alito wrote that \"nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.\" But as NPR's Kurtzleben points out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/supreme-court-abortion-roe-wade-2022-05-05#democrats-warn-that-an-end-to-roe-could-threaten-other-freedoms-heres-why\">that doesn't mean that the Supreme Court can't change its mind in the future\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of women marchers hold signs reading 'demand reproductive justice now' and 'women are not breeders' and 'my body my choice'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march on Market Street in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, during a rally for abortion rights following a leaked draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>LGBTQ+ organizers in California mobilize\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court could potentially start questioning the historical validity of other rulings using Alito's logic, said Samuel Garrett-Pate, managing director of external affairs for Equality California, an LGBTQ+ civil rights group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Samuel Garrett-Pate, managing director, Equality California\"]'To ... be told by a justice on the Supreme Court that our existence isn't deeply rooted in history ... because in his ahistorical view, we have not existed throughout history — it's devastating.'[/pullquote]He points to rulings like \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/14-556\">Obergefell v. 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Both rulings are partially based on an interpretation of the 14th Amendment and could be under threat if justices base future decisions on what rights they believe are rooted in history, he adds, referencing Justice Alito's conclusion that the right to an abortion \"is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To ... be told by a justice on the Supreme Court that our existence isn't deeply rooted in history, that our right to exist is somehow less important than everyone else's — because in his ahistorical view, we have not existed throughout history — it's devastating,\" Garrett-Pate said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alito's leaked draft opinion has fueled organizing efforts across the state, Garrett-Pate said, and not just to protect abortion rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equality California is working with a coalition that includes Planned Parenthood's state affiliates to push \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913011/california-will-fight-like-hell-to-protect-abortion-rights-if-roe-v-wade-overturned-newsom-says\">an amendment to the state's constitution that would protect the right to abortion in California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This organizing is in tandem, Garrett-Pate said, with the work his organization is doing in support of SB 107, a bill co-sponsored by State Sen. 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Garrett-Pate said he has very little faith that the judicial system will protect transgender kids and their families — especially after the draft of the Supreme Court's opinion leaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we can't count on the legitimacy of the court in protecting civil rights for all people, in protecting equality and liberty and justice and privacy, all fundamental rights that are protected by the Constitution,\" he said, \"then we need to do the work here in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco LGBT Community Center's Rebecca Rolfe echoes this sentiment and argues that the draft ruling is part of a longer trend in the judicial system where landmark civil rights cases and legislation are being weakened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen that with the erosion of voting rights and the impact that has on BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and people of color] voters and marginalized and low-income voters,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why, she adds, initiatives to protect abortion rights that come after the draft ruling must be in solidarity with other organizing efforts to defend other rights that could be imperiled by future judicial decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no attack on one set of civil rights that doesn't attack all civil rights,\" she said. \"We certainly see that in the LGBTQ community, that reproductive rights are LGBT rights, that voting rights are LGBT rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED's Danielle Venton, NPR and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That bill arose partly in response to legislation introduced by Republican state lawmakers across the country that propose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908500/nations-trans-kids-would-be-offered-place-of-refuge-in-california-with-new-bill\">making it a felony for parents to consent to gender-affirming care for their transgender children\u003c/a>. In March, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a directive calling for child abuse investigations of parents who seek gender-affirming medical care for their transgender children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a Texas judge temporarily blocked Abbott's directive, the state's attorney general later announced it would appeal that decision. Garrett-Pate said he has very little faith that the judicial system will protect transgender kids and their families — especially after the draft of the Supreme Court's opinion leaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we can't count on the legitimacy of the court in protecting civil rights for all people, in protecting equality and liberty and justice and privacy, all fundamental rights that are protected by the Constitution,\" he said, \"then we need to do the work here in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco LGBT Community Center's Rebecca Rolfe echoes this sentiment and argues that the draft ruling is part of a longer trend in the judicial system where landmark civil rights cases and legislation are being weakened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen that with the erosion of voting rights and the impact that has on BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and people of color] voters and marginalized and low-income voters,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why, she adds, initiatives to protect abortion rights that come after the draft ruling must be in solidarity with other organizing efforts to defend other rights that could be imperiled by future judicial decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no attack on one set of civil rights that doesn't attack all civil rights,\" she said. \"We certainly see that in the LGBTQ community, that reproductive rights are LGBT rights, that voting rights are LGBT rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED's Danielle Venton, NPR and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Is same-sex marriage next? Is interracial marriage next? If women’s rights are at stake, then everyone’s rights are at stake,” said Jordan Elliott, a 23-year-old San Francisco resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11913033,news_11913011,news_11912134\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Michelle Whitney, also a 23-year-old San Francisco resident, questioned why abortion rights was a focus for the government when there are other issues of major concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we focusing on this?\" asked Whitney. \"There are so many other things that need to be worked on: climate change, the poor, I don't even know where to begin. But the fact that we're attacking women's rights is just ridiculous in my eyes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the march began, protesters gathered outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building on Golden Gate Avenue, where politicians like California Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco Mayor London Breed also expressed their opposition to the draft opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials are pushing to make California a “sanctuary” for out-of-state patients seeking abortion, including helping cover the cost of the procedure, transportation, lodging, child care, food and lost wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11913113\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing sun glasses holds a sign that reads \"Abortion is a Civil Right\" among a crowd of people.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12.jpg 1172w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Priyanka Patel holds a sign that says 'Abortion Is a Civil Right' during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shannon Olivieri Hovis, director of NARAL Pro-Choice California, told KQED in an interview earlier Tuesday how overturning Roe v. Wade could affect California and have larger implications for women and pregnant people around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality is that if the right to legal abortion falls in more than half of the United States, millions and millions of women and pregnant people are going to find themselves in need of care and they are going to be searching and seeking out states like ours that can provide these safe havens for them to access that care,\" said Hovis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says 'There's Blood on Your Gavels' during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Hovis, California already has seen a significant increase in out-of-state patients seeking abortion — and those who cannot afford to travel outside states with abortion restrictions may be forced to carry a pregnancy to term against their will. She says the state must ramp up providing practical, direct support to patients seeking abortion care by fixing cost barriers, ensuring that California's provider shortage is addressed and having legal protections in place for anybody who would help somebody access abortion care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been able to provide care for Californians,\" she said. \"And now we have to be prepared to provide care for anyone throughout the country who may need to access care within our state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic leaders of the state Legislature \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913011/california-will-fight-like-hell-to-protect-abortion-rights-if-roe-v-wade-overturned-newsom-says\">have announced plans to introduce an amendment\u003c/a> “to enshrine the right to choose in our state constitution so that there is no doubt as to the right to abortion in this state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55732_087_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55732_087_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55732_087_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55732_087_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55732_087_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55732_087_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march on Market Street in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, during a rally for abortion rights. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laura Jiménez, head of the nonprofit California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, told KQED in an interview Tuesday that the Supreme Court potentially overturning the constitutional right to an abortion would increase the wait times for Californians seeking access to care as well as intensify the need for more funding and providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Roe v. Wade is overturned, that would make California the closest no-ban state within driving distance for as many as 1.4 million people, a nearly 3,000% increase from current levels, \u003ca href=\"https://states.guttmacher.org/#california\">according to reproductive justice organization the Guttmacher Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nyajal Taylor, 21, marches from the Federal Building to Market Street in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, during a rally for abortion rights. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Jiménez, keeping the Latino population informed is a major focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once you hear that this draft of a decision is out there, people start to get scared and don't even try to seek the services they need,\" said Jiménez. \"So I think that having the correct information provided to folks in Spanish and English and other languages that other communities need is really important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913105\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-10-1-scaled-e1651632494388.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11913105\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-10-1-800x532.jpg\" alt='A woman holds a sign that reads \"We need parents by choice\" in a crowd of people.' width=\"800\" height=\"532\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says 'We Need Parents by Choice' during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jiménez says California Latinas for Reproductive Justice is coordinating efforts with their partners at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, who have been working in the Rio Grande Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Along all those western border checkpoints, folks that are maybe Latino, maybe undocumented, will have difficulty even attempting to get to another place for an abortion,\" said Jiménez. \"That's important because it has implications on what we're doing with immigration law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED's Spencer Whitney, Keith Mizuguchi, Natalia Navarro, Alex Emslie and Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"I can understand the safety and feeling of comfort that comes with living in a state like California,” said Caroline Hannon, a 31-year-old San Francisco resident who has worked in organizing efforts to make abortions more widely available across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it's not enough to just rest on that comfort and allow people all over the country to really be slammed back to the dark ages with [the] reversal of Roe v. Wade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-8-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Others at Tuesday's protest shared their anxiety about what legal precedents the high court's draft opinion could establish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s to come? Is same-sex marriage next? Is interracial marriage next? If women’s rights are at stake, then everyone’s rights are at stake,” said Jordan Elliott, a 23-year-old San Francisco resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Michelle Whitney, also a 23-year-old San Francisco resident, questioned why abortion rights was a focus for the government when there are other issues of major concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we focusing on this?\" asked Whitney. \"There are so many other things that need to be worked on: climate change, the poor, I don't even know where to begin. But the fact that we're attacking women's rights is just ridiculous in my eyes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the march began, protesters gathered outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building on Golden Gate Avenue, where politicians like California Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco Mayor London Breed also expressed their opposition to the draft opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials are pushing to make California a “sanctuary” for out-of-state patients seeking abortion, including helping cover the cost of the procedure, transportation, lodging, child care, food and lost wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11913113\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing sun glasses holds a sign that reads \"Abortion is a Civil Right\" among a crowd of people.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-12.jpg 1172w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Priyanka Patel holds a sign that says 'Abortion Is a Civil Right' during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shannon Olivieri Hovis, director of NARAL Pro-Choice California, told KQED in an interview earlier Tuesday how overturning Roe v. Wade could affect California and have larger implications for women and pregnant people around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality is that if the right to legal abortion falls in more than half of the United States, millions and millions of women and pregnant people are going to find themselves in need of care and they are going to be searching and seeking out states like ours that can provide these safe havens for them to access that care,\" said Hovis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says 'There's Blood on Your Gavels' during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Hovis, California already has seen a significant increase in out-of-state patients seeking abortion — and those who cannot afford to travel outside states with abortion restrictions may be forced to carry a pregnancy to term against their will. She says the state must ramp up providing practical, direct support to patients seeking abortion care by fixing cost barriers, ensuring that California's provider shortage is addressed and having legal protections in place for anybody who would help somebody access abortion care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been able to provide care for Californians,\" she said. \"And now we have to be prepared to provide care for anyone throughout the country who may need to access care within our state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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Wade is overturned, that would make California the closest no-ban state within driving distance for as many as 1.4 million people, a nearly 3,000% increase from current levels, \u003ca href=\"https://states.guttmacher.org/#california\">according to reproductive justice organization the Guttmacher Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55716_056_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nyajal Taylor, 21, marches from the Federal Building to Market Street in San Francisco on May 3, 2022, during a rally for abortion rights. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Jiménez, keeping the Latino population informed is a major focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once you hear that this draft of a decision is out there, people start to get scared and don't even try to seek the services they need,\" said Jiménez. \"So I think that having the correct information provided to folks in Spanish and English and other languages that other communities need is really important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913105\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-10-1-scaled-e1651632494388.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11913105\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-10-1-800x532.jpg\" alt='A woman holds a sign that reads \"We need parents by choice\" in a crowd of people.' width=\"800\" height=\"532\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says 'We Need Parents by Choice' during a rally for abortion rights outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on May 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jiménez says California Latinas for Reproductive Justice is coordinating efforts with their partners at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, who have been working in the Rio Grande Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Along all those western border checkpoints, folks that are maybe Latino, maybe undocumented, will have difficulty even attempting to get to another place for an abortion,\" said Jiménez. \"That's important because it has implications on what we're doing with immigration law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED's Spencer Whitney, Keith Mizuguchi, Natalia Navarro, Alex Emslie and Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>KQED update Friday, June 24: The decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was announced on June 24, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>California guarantees the right to abortion in statute and the state constitution. Our state’s abortion laws are the strongest in the United States. Both officials and abortion providers have made it very clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917111/even-without-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-still-legal-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">abortion access in California will not change\u003c/a> because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Read more about the overturning of Roe v. 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Additionally, some states have laws — not currently in effect — banning abortion after six to eight weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913039\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1168px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913039\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1168\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Map.png 1168w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Map-800x462.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Map-1020x589.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Map-160x92.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1168px) 100vw, 1168px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the United States, with the following states highlighted: Arkansas, Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. \u003ccite>(Source: Guttmacher Institute (as of April 19.) 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Other laws express the intent of states to crack down on abortion if permitted by the Supreme Court.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=news_11912134 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/GettyImages-1145542990-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>States that continue to allow abortion could see an influx of patients seeking care. \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For example, after Texas enacted its roughly six-week ban on abortion last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/1081570852/the-consequences-of-texas-restrictive-abortion-law\">some residents began to get abortions out of state\u003c/a>. In the final four months of last year, Planned Parenthood clinics in states near Texas reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/new-planned-parenthood-data-highlight-the-far-reaching-impact-of-texas-abortion-ban\">a nearly 800% increase in abortion patients from Texas\u003c/a> compared to the same period in the prior year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Women of color will bear the brunt of further abortion restrictions. \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to The Associated Press, \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/minority-women-affected-abortion-banned-limited-82599673\">in conservative states that already limit access to abortions Black and Hispanic women have abortions at higher rates than white women\u003c/a>. Women of color who are low income could also have a harder time traveling out of state for an abortion, the AP said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Limits on abortion access can lead to negative long-term health effects.\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A major study from the University of California, San Francisco found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.ansirh.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/the_harms_of_denying_a_woman_a_wanted_abortion_4-16-2020.pdf\">women are harmed by being denied abortions\u003c/a>. The women surveyed who gave birth had economic hardships that lasted for several years, were more likely to raise the child alone, and were at higher risk of developing serious health problems than those who had had abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1088238619/legislation-abortion-bans\">\u003cstrong>Some blue states are already taking steps \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>to enshrine the right to abortion in state law.\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>From Colorado to New Jersey, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1088238619/legislation-abortion-bans\">Democratic governors have signed laws protecting reproductive rights\u003c/a> and announced their intention to be able to provide abortion services to people who live in states where the procedure is restricted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. 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Both officials and abortion providers have made it very clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917111/even-without-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-still-legal-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">abortion access in California will not change\u003c/a> because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Read more about the overturning of Roe v. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update Friday, June 24: The decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was announced on June 24, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>California guarantees the right to abortion in statute and the state constitution. Our state’s abortion laws are the strongest in the United States. Both officials and abortion providers have made it very clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917111/even-without-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-still-legal-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">abortion access in California will not change\u003c/a> because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Read more about the overturning of Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California abortion clinics are building new facilities closer to transit hubs and training more staff. A package of a dozen abortion rights bills moving through the Legislature could expand the number of providers, provide financial assistance to patients traveling to California to terminate their pregnancies, and legally protect the doctors who treat them.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jodi Hicks, president and CEO, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California\"]‘People from across the country are already looking to California as a haven state, as a beacon to provide them the care they need.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As new restrictions rapidly sweep the country in anticipation of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this summer that may dramatically scale back or even end the constitutional right to abortion, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/\">California is preparing to step into the void\u003c/a> — and welcome a possible surge of patients losing access in dozens of other states. Politico released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\">draft majority opinion\u003c/a> written by Justice Samuel Alito that calls for overturning Roe v. Wade and the constitutional abortion rights that were maintained under the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the draft opinion, Alito wrote, “We hold that \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Casey\u003c/em> must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Casey\u003c/em> now chiefly rely – the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, justices can change, and have changed, their votes on major decisions where multiple drafts have been created. The Supreme Court’s decision will not be final until it is published, more than likely sometime in the next two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the leaked draft opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed its authenticity and directed the Supreme Court marshal to investigate how such a leak occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096123185/supreme-court-john-roberts-roe-wade\">said Roberts in a statement\u003c/a>. “The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People from across the country are already looking to California as a haven state, as a beacon to provide them the care they need,” Jodi Hicks, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said during a recent online program. “It is our moral imperative that we continue to provide the leadership that people are looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood, which operates about half of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ansirh.org/abortion-facility-database\">165 abortion clinics in California\u003c/a>, reports that it has treated at least 80 out-of-state patients per month on average since September, when Texas adopted a law allowing residents to seek civil damages against anyone who aids an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move turbocharged a political and cultural battle that has all but cut off abortion access in the most conservative parts of the country in recent years and sent advocates in liberal states scrambling to build a bulwark for reproductive rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to secure an injunction against the Texas law while courts consider the legality of the novel attempt to circumvent Roe v. Wade — the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that protected the right to an abortion without excessive government restriction — clinics in the state shut down to avoid a deluge of lawsuits. \u003ca href=\"https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2022/03/07/about-1-400-texans-seeking-out-of-state-abortions-per-month--ut-austin-study-says-\">Thousands of patients are now seeking abortions elsewhere\u003c/a>, overwhelming neighboring Oklahoma and New Mexico and pushing some people further afield to more friendly states, including California.[aside postID=\"news_11909017,arts_13911818,forum_2010101888660\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“The need right now of expanding access is pretty clear to all of us,” state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins told reporters last month. The San Diego Democrat is carrying \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1375\">Senate Bill 1375\u003c/a>, which would allow some nurse practitioners to independently perform first-trimester abortions without a doctor’s supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting ready for more patients\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sue Dunlap, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, said she has been preparing for years for the moment when the organization would have to become a haven for patients from all over the country who have nowhere else to turn for an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has included expanding and reorganizing its network of facilities — so that they are near airports and bus and train stations — and of supportive emergency rooms and medical providers. Dunlap said she worked with UCLA’s law school to establish a \u003ca href=\"https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF06954\">new center for the study of reproductive health law and policy\u003c/a>. Planned Parenthood Los Angeles also collaborates with medical schools across the country on abortion training, particularly in states where those opportunities might not otherwise exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunlap declined to provide data on how many out-of-state patients the organization serves, arguing that the numbers would not fully reflect the situation because of the secrecy and fear surrounding abortion. But she noted that Los Angeles, as a center of tourism and commerce, has long been a \u003ca href=\"https://online.ucpress.edu/ch/article/99/1/10/120152/Abortion-and-the-Law-in-CaliforniaLessons-for\">destination for people seeking abortions\u003c/a> — even before it was legal, when patients often crossed the border to Mexico for the procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Angeles is a place that people identify with ideas of freedoms,” Dunlap said. “Los Angeles is also a place that, when you don’t know where to go, you come here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who do come “are almost always in incredibly desperate situations,” she added, and many have more challenging circumstances and complications than in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunlap mentioned a pregnant woman from Texas who was diagnosed with breast cancer, necessitating a double mastectomy. Though the woman did not want to terminate her pregnancy, Dunlap said, she had to travel to one of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles’s clinics in recent months because she could not get an abortion in her own state — and could not get the double mastectomy if she were pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which covers Northern and Central California and Northern Nevada, said it treated 66 out-of-state patients at its California clinics between September and March, including 22 patients from Texas. One of them was a college student who was prepared to use her scholarship money to fly to California until it provided her with a voucher, according to an anonymous patient testimony shared by the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Oklahoma and other states on the verge of shutting down abortion access as well, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte President and CEO Stacy Cross said the organization is preparing to take on between 250 and 500 more patients per week in its network of facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medication abortion is now available at all of its sites. Clinics are hiring more staff and making sure any medical providers who are licensed to perform abortions have the necessary training, even if they specialize in one of the other services Planned Parenthood offers, so they can schedule more appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next month, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte plans to break ground on a new, larger facility in Reno that is closer to the airport. Cross wants to add a second site in northern Nevada for what she anticipates will soon be more patients coming from Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work is personal for Cross: Both of her grandmothers died from a lack of access to reproductive care — one from an illegal abortion and the other in childbirth, delivering her ninth child at age 47, she said. She worries that Californians don’t fully understand how quickly and fully abortion access could shut down across the country if the Supreme Court reverses the Roe decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I even say those words out loud, it sends a chill down my back. It’s horrific to think about,” Cross said. But California has done an amazing job preparing: “We fill the gaps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Divide deepens between red and blue states\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those gaps are almost certain to widen in the months to come. Spurred on by the success of the Texas law, anti-abortion legislators across America are racing to advance new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a one-week stretch this month, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/desantis-signs-abortion-ban-florida/index.html\">ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy\u003c/a>; GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma signed a bill making it \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-oklahoma-law-87880e9f3c7bde2ae634cb2f02839e6e\">a felony to perform an abortion in the state\u003c/a>, punishable by up to 10 years in prison; and Republican legislators in Kentucky overrode a governor’s veto on a measure to impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-general-assembly/2022/04/15/new-kentucky-abortion-law-ky-only-state-without-abortion-services/7330408001/\">broad new requirements on abortion providers\u003c/a> that they say make it impossible for them to continue operating. A federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-business-health-kentucky-legislature-eda1b6c68c636e753be8032c715bde45?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP\">temporarily blocked the Kentucky law\u003c/a> on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many of the policies are currently unconstitutional, conservative states are laying the groundwork in anticipation that the Supreme Court will soon uphold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/01/us/abortion-mississippi-supreme-court\">Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy\u003c/a>. A decision on that case is expected by June, and some experts believe the justices will take the opportunity to overturn the Roe ruling altogether, which would trigger \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2021/10/26-states-are-certain-or-likely-ban-abortion-without-roe-heres-which-ones-and-why\">near or complete bans on abortion in about half of states\u003c/a>, including Arizona, which neighbors California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberal states are responding with their own measures to protect the right to abortion in law, and to increase access to accommodate a potential influx of patients from beyond their borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Vermont voters will decide whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2022-02-08/proposed-constitutional-amendment-protecting-reproductive-liberty-heads-to-vt-voters\">amend the state constitution\u003c/a> to enshrine reproductive autonomy, while Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is trying to circumvent her state’s Republican-controlled Legislature by asking the state Supreme Court to \u003ca href=\"https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/04/07/michigan-abortion-law-ban-gretchen-whitmer-supreme-court/9485031002/\">overturn a pre-Roe abortion ban\u003c/a> that is still on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon recently approved a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/idaho-abortion-ban-oregon-reproductive-funding/283-4c696054-7b49-48ea-b7e2-a9639d47d47e\">$15 million fund that could provide financial assistance to patients\u003c/a>, including those from outside the state, who need help paying for abortion fees and other costs. Washington adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/washington-state-governor-signs-bill-that-prohibits-texas-style-abortion-lawsuits\">legal protections against prosecuting people who aid an abortion or people who experience pregnancy losses\u003c/a>. Democratic legislators in Maryland overrode a veto by the Republican governor to pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-sat-hogan-overrides-20220409-pqpje5ocdvaknho7ry62a6nfve-story.html\">a bill that would require health insurance plans to cover abortions\u003c/a> and put $3.5 million toward training providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several states have adopted or are pursuing measures to expand who is authorized to perform an abortion to include other advanced medical professionals beyond doctors, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, following a move that California made more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has been on the forefront for a long time,” said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst for the Guttmacher Institute, which researches and promotes reproductive rights. “It has helped other states see what’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making California an abortion ‘sanctuary’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/\">California is pushing further still.\u003c/a> In September, after the Texas law took effect, Gov. Gavin Newsom convened the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafabcouncil.org/\">Future of Abortion Council\u003c/a>, a coalition of reproductive rights, health and justice groups, to explore how to make the state a “sanctuary” for abortion. More than 40 policy recommendations, released in December, formed the basis for the sweeping legislative package now advancing at the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved by the end of session in August and signed by Newsom, the measures would become law next year, though supporters hope some pieces might be incorporated into the state budget that must be approved by June 15. Those could kick in immediately this summer, when the Supreme Court decision on abortion is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is definitely an urgency to get some of these things in place and get prepared, because this is happening regardless of whatever timeline our Legislature is on,” said Lisa Matsubara, general counsel and vice president of policy for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, which is sponsoring or co-sponsoring most of the bills in the package. “We are doing everything we can to make sure we are as ready as we can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centerpiece is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1142\">Senate Bill 1142\u003c/a>, by Democratic Sens. Anna Caballero of Salinas and Nancy Skinner of Berkeley, which would create a state-administered fund to assist patients who face financial barriers to obtaining an abortion and support public research into improving access. Advocates are seeking $20 million from the state to launch the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2134\">Assembly Bill 2134\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Akilah Weber, a San Diego Democrat, which would set aside money for clinics that provide uncompensated care to lower-income patients whose insurance does not cover abortion and contraceptive services. Supporters argue the funding is crucial to ensure that not only wealthy patients are able to travel to California for abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Pinckney, executive director of Access Reproductive Justice, the only statewide abortion fund in California, says the bill could expand its grants to people who need help paying for their abortion, travel and lodging, lost wages, a doula or other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Oakland-based fund supported 551 patients with an average of about $300, Pinckney said, not enough to meet anybody’s full need. She also would like to do more outreach to let people know the fund exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 people the fund served were from 18 different states, Pinckney added, but most are lower-income or from one of the dozens of mostly rural counties without an abortion provider, who may need to travel hours and stay overnight for a multi-day abortion procedure in their second trimester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the state of California, there are quite a few barriers,” Pinckney said. “This is an unmet need for Californians already.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recognition that conservative states may continue to ramp up legal and financial penalties for abortions, another collection of bills aims to protect doctors who travel to other states to perform the procedure or who treat out-of-state patients: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1666\">AB 1666\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, an Orinda Democrat, would nullify civil judgments from other states related to reproductive care. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2091\">AB 2091\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Mia Bonta, an Alameda Democrat, would prohibit medical providers and health insurers from sharing information in cases that seek to penalize abortion. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2626\">AB 2626\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Lisa Calderon, a Whittier Democrat, would prevent the state medical board from suspending or revoking the license of a physician who is punished in another state for performing an abortion in accordance with California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other major legislative efforts include Atkins’s bill to allow abortions by independent nurse practitioners and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1918\">AB 1918\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, which would create a “reproductive health service corps” for underserved parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about strengthening our foundation, our health care foundation, to expand the pool of health care professionals who can provide abortions,” Atkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Last stand for anti-abortion activists?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/#9f19d20d-aa0d-463f-a93f-1f63820093df\">measures are moving through the legislative process\u003c/a> so far with widespread support from the overwhelmingly Democratic lawmakers, and seem likely to be approved if they reach the governor’s desk. Newsom already signed a law last month that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/03/22/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-eliminate-out-of-pocket-costs-for-abortion-services/\">prohibits health insurers from charging a co-pay or deductible for abortions\u003c/a>, thus eliminating out-of-pocket costs for covered patients. He pledged that California would continue to “protect and advance reproductive freedom for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the bills have not been entirely without controversy. Hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/04/abortion-rights-covid-protests/\">protesters gathered at the Capitol last week\u003c/a> to oppose \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2223\">AB 2223\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, an Oakland Democrat, which would end a requirement that coroners investigate the cause of fetal deaths resulting from suspected self-induced abortions, clarify that people cannot be held criminally or civilly liable for their own pregnancy losses or abortions, and create an ability to sue prosecutors and others who violate that protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters holding crosses and “Babies’ Lives Matter” signs packed onto the steps of the building to hear from \u003ca href=\"https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-rally-against-california-abortion-bill.html\">Pastor Jack Hibbs of the Calvary Chapel Chino Hills megachurch\u003c/a>. Nearby, a Christian band and twirling dancers led a crowd in a worship service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the measure is necessary to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/04/coroner-investigation-stillbirths-anti-abortion/\">protect Californians from overzealous law enforcement\u003c/a> and district attorneys who may be hostile to abortion rights. They point to two Kings County women who were charged with murder and imprisoned in the past five years after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/criminal-justice/2022/02/stillbirth-prison-manslaughter/\">both delivered stillbirths and tested positive for methamphetamine\u003c/a>, in what Attorney General Rob Bonta has called a misapplication of the state criminal code. Advocates argue that fear of prosecution may deter some patients from seeking necessary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-800x534.png\" alt='A crowd marches forward holding signs that read \"Save lives No AB 2223.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-1536x1025.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM.png 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors gather to rally against Assembly Bill 2223 at the state Capitol in Sacramento on April 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But critics of the Wicks bill highlight a provision that states women cannot be penalized for “perinatal death due to a pregnancy-related cause,” referring to a baby who dies in an undefined period immediately after birth, which they contend is so vague as to legalize infanticide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is trying to really tear down one of the few restrictions that California does have when it comes to terminating pregnancies, and that is the actual point of delivery,” Jonathan Keller, president of the religious advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafamily.org/\">California Family Council\u003c/a>, said following the Capitol rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wicks has vehemently denied that’s what the measure would or is intended to do, Keller said, “Intentions don’t matter. It’s actual legislative text that matters.” He added that the outrage has helped his group organize broader and more fervent opposition to the abortion legislation than it has managed in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do think that many of the bills in this package are actually out of step with the state of California,” Keller said, including the fund to help out-of-state patients travel to California for abortion care. He calls it “abortion tourism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His claims have been picked up by the Republican National Committee, which issued a statement denouncing Wicks’s bill and calling abortion “murder,” but seem unlikely to gain much traction in the Democrat-dominated Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the first committee hearing for the bill, following the rally, only one legislator questioned Wicks, who slammed her opponents’ tactics: “These same groups that are trying to ban abortion across this country and imprison people for stillbirths have manufactured a disinformation campaign using disturbing and violent imagery that is not grounded in medical science or the text of the bill,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite nearly an hour of testimony from opponents, the bill sailed through on an 11-3 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original version of this story was published on April 25, 2022.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As new restrictions rapidly sweep the country in anticipation of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this summer that may dramatically scale back or even end the constitutional right to abortion, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/\">California is preparing to step into the void\u003c/a> — and welcome a possible surge of patients losing access in dozens of other states. Politico released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\">draft majority opinion\u003c/a> written by Justice Samuel Alito that calls for overturning Roe v. Wade and the constitutional abortion rights that were maintained under the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the draft opinion, Alito wrote, “We hold that \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Casey\u003c/em> must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Casey\u003c/em> now chiefly rely – the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, justices can change, and have changed, their votes on major decisions where multiple drafts have been created. The Supreme Court’s decision will not be final until it is published, more than likely sometime in the next two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the leaked draft opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed its authenticity and directed the Supreme Court marshal to investigate how such a leak occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096123185/supreme-court-john-roberts-roe-wade\">said Roberts in a statement\u003c/a>. “The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People from across the country are already looking to California as a haven state, as a beacon to provide them the care they need,” Jodi Hicks, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, said during a recent online program. “It is our moral imperative that we continue to provide the leadership that people are looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood, which operates about half of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ansirh.org/abortion-facility-database\">165 abortion clinics in California\u003c/a>, reports that it has treated at least 80 out-of-state patients per month on average since September, when Texas adopted a law allowing residents to seek civil damages against anyone who aids an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That move turbocharged a political and cultural battle that has all but cut off abortion access in the most conservative parts of the country in recent years and sent advocates in liberal states scrambling to build a bulwark for reproductive rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to secure an injunction against the Texas law while courts consider the legality of the novel attempt to circumvent Roe v. Wade — the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that protected the right to an abortion without excessive government restriction — clinics in the state shut down to avoid a deluge of lawsuits. \u003ca href=\"https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2022/03/07/about-1-400-texans-seeking-out-of-state-abortions-per-month--ut-austin-study-says-\">Thousands of patients are now seeking abortions elsewhere\u003c/a>, overwhelming neighboring Oklahoma and New Mexico and pushing some people further afield to more friendly states, including California.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The need right now of expanding access is pretty clear to all of us,” state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins told reporters last month. The San Diego Democrat is carrying \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1375\">Senate Bill 1375\u003c/a>, which would allow some nurse practitioners to independently perform first-trimester abortions without a doctor’s supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting ready for more patients\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sue Dunlap, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, said she has been preparing for years for the moment when the organization would have to become a haven for patients from all over the country who have nowhere else to turn for an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has included expanding and reorganizing its network of facilities — so that they are near airports and bus and train stations — and of supportive emergency rooms and medical providers. Dunlap said she worked with UCLA’s law school to establish a \u003ca href=\"https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF06954\">new center for the study of reproductive health law and policy\u003c/a>. Planned Parenthood Los Angeles also collaborates with medical schools across the country on abortion training, particularly in states where those opportunities might not otherwise exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunlap declined to provide data on how many out-of-state patients the organization serves, arguing that the numbers would not fully reflect the situation because of the secrecy and fear surrounding abortion. But she noted that Los Angeles, as a center of tourism and commerce, has long been a \u003ca href=\"https://online.ucpress.edu/ch/article/99/1/10/120152/Abortion-and-the-Law-in-CaliforniaLessons-for\">destination for people seeking abortions\u003c/a> — even before it was legal, when patients often crossed the border to Mexico for the procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los Angeles is a place that people identify with ideas of freedoms,” Dunlap said. “Los Angeles is also a place that, when you don’t know where to go, you come here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who do come “are almost always in incredibly desperate situations,” she added, and many have more challenging circumstances and complications than in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunlap mentioned a pregnant woman from Texas who was diagnosed with breast cancer, necessitating a double mastectomy. Though the woman did not want to terminate her pregnancy, Dunlap said, she had to travel to one of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles’s clinics in recent months because she could not get an abortion in her own state — and could not get the double mastectomy if she were pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, which covers Northern and Central California and Northern Nevada, said it treated 66 out-of-state patients at its California clinics between September and March, including 22 patients from Texas. One of them was a college student who was prepared to use her scholarship money to fly to California until it provided her with a voucher, according to an anonymous patient testimony shared by the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Oklahoma and other states on the verge of shutting down abortion access as well, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte President and CEO Stacy Cross said the organization is preparing to take on between 250 and 500 more patients per week in its network of facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medication abortion is now available at all of its sites. Clinics are hiring more staff and making sure any medical providers who are licensed to perform abortions have the necessary training, even if they specialize in one of the other services Planned Parenthood offers, so they can schedule more appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next month, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte plans to break ground on a new, larger facility in Reno that is closer to the airport. Cross wants to add a second site in northern Nevada for what she anticipates will soon be more patients coming from Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work is personal for Cross: Both of her grandmothers died from a lack of access to reproductive care — one from an illegal abortion and the other in childbirth, delivering her ninth child at age 47, she said. She worries that Californians don’t fully understand how quickly and fully abortion access could shut down across the country if the Supreme Court reverses the Roe decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every time I even say those words out loud, it sends a chill down my back. It’s horrific to think about,” Cross said. But California has done an amazing job preparing: “We fill the gaps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Divide deepens between red and blue states\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those gaps are almost certain to widen in the months to come. Spurred on by the success of the Texas law, anti-abortion legislators across America are racing to advance new restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just a one-week stretch this month, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/desantis-signs-abortion-ban-florida/index.html\">ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy\u003c/a>; GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma signed a bill making it \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-oklahoma-law-87880e9f3c7bde2ae634cb2f02839e6e\">a felony to perform an abortion in the state\u003c/a>, punishable by up to 10 years in prison; and Republican legislators in Kentucky overrode a governor’s veto on a measure to impose \u003ca href=\"https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-general-assembly/2022/04/15/new-kentucky-abortion-law-ky-only-state-without-abortion-services/7330408001/\">broad new requirements on abortion providers\u003c/a> that they say make it impossible for them to continue operating. A federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-business-health-kentucky-legislature-eda1b6c68c636e753be8032c715bde45?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP\">temporarily blocked the Kentucky law\u003c/a> on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many of the policies are currently unconstitutional, conservative states are laying the groundwork in anticipation that the Supreme Court will soon uphold a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/12/01/us/abortion-mississippi-supreme-court\">Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy\u003c/a>. A decision on that case is expected by June, and some experts believe the justices will take the opportunity to overturn the Roe ruling altogether, which would trigger \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2021/10/26-states-are-certain-or-likely-ban-abortion-without-roe-heres-which-ones-and-why\">near or complete bans on abortion in about half of states\u003c/a>, including Arizona, which neighbors California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberal states are responding with their own measures to protect the right to abortion in law, and to increase access to accommodate a potential influx of patients from beyond their borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Vermont voters will decide whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2022-02-08/proposed-constitutional-amendment-protecting-reproductive-liberty-heads-to-vt-voters\">amend the state constitution\u003c/a> to enshrine reproductive autonomy, while Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is trying to circumvent her state’s Republican-controlled Legislature by asking the state Supreme Court to \u003ca href=\"https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/04/07/michigan-abortion-law-ban-gretchen-whitmer-supreme-court/9485031002/\">overturn a pre-Roe abortion ban\u003c/a> that is still on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon recently approved a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/idaho-abortion-ban-oregon-reproductive-funding/283-4c696054-7b49-48ea-b7e2-a9639d47d47e\">$15 million fund that could provide financial assistance to patients\u003c/a>, including those from outside the state, who need help paying for abortion fees and other costs. Washington adopted \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/washington-state-governor-signs-bill-that-prohibits-texas-style-abortion-lawsuits\">legal protections against prosecuting people who aid an abortion or people who experience pregnancy losses\u003c/a>. Democratic legislators in Maryland overrode a veto by the Republican governor to pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-sat-hogan-overrides-20220409-pqpje5ocdvaknho7ry62a6nfve-story.html\">a bill that would require health insurance plans to cover abortions\u003c/a> and put $3.5 million toward training providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several states have adopted or are pursuing measures to expand who is authorized to perform an abortion to include other advanced medical professionals beyond doctors, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, following a move that California made more than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has been on the forefront for a long time,” said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst for the Guttmacher Institute, which researches and promotes reproductive rights. “It has helped other states see what’s possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Making California an abortion ‘sanctuary’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/\">California is pushing further still.\u003c/a> In September, after the Texas law took effect, Gov. Gavin Newsom convened the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cafabcouncil.org/\">Future of Abortion Council\u003c/a>, a coalition of reproductive rights, health and justice groups, to explore how to make the state a “sanctuary” for abortion. More than 40 policy recommendations, released in December, formed the basis for the sweeping legislative package now advancing at the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved by the end of session in August and signed by Newsom, the measures would become law next year, though supporters hope some pieces might be incorporated into the state budget that must be approved by June 15. Those could kick in immediately this summer, when the Supreme Court decision on abortion is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is definitely an urgency to get some of these things in place and get prepared, because this is happening regardless of whatever timeline our Legislature is on,” said Lisa Matsubara, general counsel and vice president of policy for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, which is sponsoring or co-sponsoring most of the bills in the package. “We are doing everything we can to make sure we are as ready as we can be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centerpiece is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1142\">Senate Bill 1142\u003c/a>, by Democratic Sens. Anna Caballero of Salinas and Nancy Skinner of Berkeley, which would create a state-administered fund to assist patients who face financial barriers to obtaining an abortion and support public research into improving access. Advocates are seeking $20 million from the state to launch the fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2134\">Assembly Bill 2134\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Akilah Weber, a San Diego Democrat, which would set aside money for clinics that provide uncompensated care to lower-income patients whose insurance does not cover abortion and contraceptive services. Supporters argue the funding is crucial to ensure that not only wealthy patients are able to travel to California for abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Pinckney, executive director of Access Reproductive Justice, the only statewide abortion fund in California, says the bill could expand its grants to people who need help paying for their abortion, travel and lodging, lost wages, a doula or other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Oakland-based fund supported 551 patients with an average of about $300, Pinckney said, not enough to meet anybody’s full need. She also would like to do more outreach to let people know the fund exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 80 people the fund served were from 18 different states, Pinckney added, but most are lower-income or from one of the dozens of mostly rural counties without an abortion provider, who may need to travel hours and stay overnight for a multi-day abortion procedure in their second trimester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the state of California, there are quite a few barriers,” Pinckney said. “This is an unmet need for Californians already.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recognition that conservative states may continue to ramp up legal and financial penalties for abortions, another collection of bills aims to protect doctors who travel to other states to perform the procedure or who treat out-of-state patients: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1666\">AB 1666\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, an Orinda Democrat, would nullify civil judgments from other states related to reproductive care. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2091\">AB 2091\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Mia Bonta, an Alameda Democrat, would prohibit medical providers and health insurers from sharing information in cases that seek to penalize abortion. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2626\">AB 2626\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Lisa Calderon, a Whittier Democrat, would prevent the state medical board from suspending or revoking the license of a physician who is punished in another state for performing an abortion in accordance with California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other major legislative efforts include Atkins’s bill to allow abortions by independent nurse practitioners and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1918\">AB 1918\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, which would create a “reproductive health service corps” for underserved parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about strengthening our foundation, our health care foundation, to expand the pool of health care professionals who can provide abortions,” Atkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Last stand for anti-abortion activists?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/abortion-in-california-laws/#9f19d20d-aa0d-463f-a93f-1f63820093df\">measures are moving through the legislative process\u003c/a> so far with widespread support from the overwhelmingly Democratic lawmakers, and seem likely to be approved if they reach the governor’s desk. Newsom already signed a law last month that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/03/22/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-to-eliminate-out-of-pocket-costs-for-abortion-services/\">prohibits health insurers from charging a co-pay or deductible for abortions\u003c/a>, thus eliminating out-of-pocket costs for covered patients. He pledged that California would continue to “protect and advance reproductive freedom for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the bills have not been entirely without controversy. Hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/04/abortion-rights-covid-protests/\">protesters gathered at the Capitol last week\u003c/a> to oppose \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2223\">AB 2223\u003c/a> by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, an Oakland Democrat, which would end a requirement that coroners investigate the cause of fetal deaths resulting from suspected self-induced abortions, clarify that people cannot be held criminally or civilly liable for their own pregnancy losses or abortions, and create an ability to sue prosecutors and others who violate that protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters holding crosses and “Babies’ Lives Matter” signs packed onto the steps of the building to hear from \u003ca href=\"https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-rally-against-california-abortion-bill.html\">Pastor Jack Hibbs of the Calvary Chapel Chino Hills megachurch\u003c/a>. Nearby, a Christian band and twirling dancers led a crowd in a worship service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the measure is necessary to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/04/coroner-investigation-stillbirths-anti-abortion/\">protect Californians from overzealous law enforcement\u003c/a> and district attorneys who may be hostile to abortion rights. They point to two Kings County women who were charged with murder and imprisoned in the past five years after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/criminal-justice/2022/02/stillbirth-prison-manslaughter/\">both delivered stillbirths and tested positive for methamphetamine\u003c/a>, in what Attorney General Rob Bonta has called a misapplication of the state criminal code. Advocates argue that fear of prosecution may deter some patients from seeking necessary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11912172\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-800x534.png\" alt='A crowd marches forward holding signs that read \"Save lives No AB 2223.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM-1536x1025.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Screen-Shot-2022-04-25-at-2.04.46-PM.png 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors gather to rally against Assembly Bill 2223 at the state Capitol in Sacramento on April 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But critics of the Wicks bill highlight a provision that states women cannot be penalized for “perinatal death due to a pregnancy-related cause,” referring to a baby who dies in an undefined period immediately after birth, which they contend is so vague as to legalize infanticide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is trying to really tear down one of the few restrictions that California does have when it comes to terminating pregnancies, and that is the actual point of delivery,” Jonathan Keller, president of the religious advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafamily.org/\">California Family Council\u003c/a>, said following the Capitol rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Wicks has vehemently denied that’s what the measure would or is intended to do, Keller said, “Intentions don’t matter. It’s actual legislative text that matters.” He added that the outrage has helped his group organize broader and more fervent opposition to the abortion legislation than it has managed in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do think that many of the bills in this package are actually out of step with the state of California,” Keller said, including the fund to help out-of-state patients travel to California for abortion care. He calls it “abortion tourism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His claims have been picked up by the Republican National Committee, which issued a statement denouncing Wicks’s bill and calling abortion “murder,” but seem unlikely to gain much traction in the Democrat-dominated Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the first committee hearing for the bill, following the rally, only one legislator questioned Wicks, who slammed her opponents’ tactics: “These same groups that are trying to ban abortion across this country and imprison people for stillbirths have manufactured a disinformation campaign using disturbing and violent imagery that is not grounded in medical science or the text of the bill,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite nearly an hour of testimony from opponents, the bill sailed through on an 11-3 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original version of this story was published on April 25, 2022.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update Friday, June 24: The decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was announced on June 24, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>California guarantees the right to abortion in statute and the state constitution. Our state’s abortion laws are the strongest in the United States. Both officials and abortion providers have made it very clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917111/even-without-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-still-legal-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">abortion access in California will not change\u003c/a> because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Read more about the overturning of Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California will not sit back. We are going to fight like hell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1521299313808216064\">Gov. 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Atkins (D-San Diego) and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) in a statement. “We know we can’t trust the Supreme Court to protect reproductive rights, so California will build a firewall around this right in our state constitution. Women will remain protected here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politico acknowledged the draft opinion has many caveats: It represents only the opinion of Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the draft for the majority. It’s far from final — the draft was written in February, and the court isn’t expected to issue a final ruling until June or July. And vote breakdowns can change: Although four other Republican-appointed justices reportedly voted to back Alito in private conferences while three Democratic-appointed justices are working on dissents and Chief Justice John Roberts remains undecided, that lineup could shift in the final opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft ruling — the first to be released in the court’s modern history while a case is still pending — could supercharge an election season that’s getting into full swing with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2022/\">the June 7 primary\u003c/a> just a month away, raising the stakes in already competitive seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K6DnQwAsRQ\">first campaign video of 2022\u003c/a>, released Monday, Newsom strolls through a redwood forest while pledging to “always lead the California way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One prong of that plan: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/12/california-abortion-newsom/\">Making California a “sanctuary”\u003c/a> for out-of-state patients seeking abortion, including by helping cover the cost of the procedure, transportation, lodging, child care, food and lost wages. At the local level, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Santa-Clara-seeks-funding-for-out-of-state-17141880.php\">two Santa Clara County supervisors are seeking $3 million\u003c/a> to help out-of-state women access abortion care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court overturning Roe v. 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California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11912134/we-fill-the-gaps-california-preps-to-be-a-haven-for-abortion-rights\">clinics that provide abortions are building new facilities closer to transit hubs\u003c/a> and training more staff. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update Friday, June 24: The decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was announced on June 24, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>California guarantees the right to abortion in statute and the state constitution. Our state’s abortion laws are the strongest in the United States. Both officials and abortion providers have made it very clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917111/even-without-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-still-legal-in-california-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">abortion access in California will not change\u003c/a> because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision. \u003ca class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917776/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Read more about the overturning of Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law Tuesday, March 22 to make abortions cheaper for people on private insurance plans, the first of more than a dozen bills the state’s Democratic leaders plan to pass this year to prepare for a potential U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could overturn Roe v. Wade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-united-states-mississippi-65751e1b9ca7d34f1458ffe9729f82b2\">weighing whether to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling\u003c/a> that banned states from outlawing abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they do, at least 26 states are likely either to ban abortion outright or severely limit access, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that supports abortion rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would force many pregnant people to travel to other states to get abortions, prompting Democratic-led states like California to propose and pass new laws to prepare for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a law aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-health-lawsuits-legislature-washington-b63da7e85e9f95402cce5f3ac8ebe86f\">banning legal action against people who aid or receive an abortion\u003c/a>, a measure responding to the Texas law that lets people sue abortion providers or those who assist them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oregon lawmakers included $15 million in their state budget to help pay for people to travel to the state to get abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has a similar bill, one of 14 proposals aimed at expanding and protecting access to abortion in the nation’s most populous state. The bills were inspired by a report from the California Future of Abortion Council, a group Newsom convened last year to advise him on how to respond if Roe v. Wade is overturned.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jodi Hicks, CEO and president, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California\"]‘We’re looking at 26 states that will introduce some sort of ban and restriction on abortion, so you have the other half of the country that will need to prepare for how we take care of those patients.’[/pullquote]“We’re looking at 26 states that will introduce some sort of ban and restriction on abortion, so you have the other half of the country that will need to prepare for how we take care of those patients,” said Jodi Hicks, CEO and president of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California. “We’re all imagining and trying to prepare correctly for what that impact will be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already requires health insurance companies to cover abortions. But insurers often charge things like co-pays and deductibles that can add an average of $543 to the cost of a medication abortion and $887 to the cost of a procedural abortion, according to an analysis by the California Health Benefits Review Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law Newsom signed on Tuesday eliminates those fees. While the law will make abortions cheaper, it also will slightly increase monthly premiums for patients and their employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the savings from eliminating the fees will be greater than the increased premiums, also according to an analysis by the California Health Benefits Review Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, authored by state Sen. Lena Gonzalez, makes California the fourth state to ban the fees, joining Illinois, New York and Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As states across the country attempt to move us backwards by restricting fundamental reproductive rights, California continues to protect and advance reproductive freedom for all,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide this summer whether to uphold a law in Mississippi that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. During a public hearing on the case last year, a majority of justices indicated they were willing to uphold the law and even overturn Roe v. Wade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That case prompted swift action in state legislatures across the country. Last week, lawmakers in Idaho sent a bill to the governor that would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-business-lawsuits-51f006f5be4ac59b85c28a2d50f1710d\">ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy\u003c/a>. 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