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She has a vision of picking women up at the airport in San Francisco, driving them to a local clinic for their abortion, then offering them a place to sleep on her couch and, really, a hand to hold. Something she did not have when she came to California for an abortion in 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived in Minneapolis. I looked and looked and back then, there were no sources,” she said. “So I had to pay the money to fly to California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of three abortions Mitchell had before Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973 – one in California and two in Washington, DC. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Supreme Court has ended the nation's constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917855/heres-where-abortions-will-likely-be-banned-or-strictly-limited-post-roe\">is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that has been fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides predicted the fight over abortion would continue, in state capitals and in Washington, and Justice Clarence Thomas, part of Friday's majority, called on the court to overturn other high court rulings protecting same-sex marriage, gay sex and the use of contraceptives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling came more than a month after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913011/california-will-fight-like-hell-to-protect-abortion-rights-if-roe-v-wade-overturned-newsom-says\">stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito\u003c/a> indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step. It puts the court at odds with a majority of Americans who favored preserving Roe, according to opinion polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alito, in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf\">final opinion issued Friday\u003c/a>, wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong the days they were decided and must be overturned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We therefore hold that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Roe and Casey must be overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives,\" Alito wrote, in an opinion that was very similar to the leaked draft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authority to regulate abortion rests with the political branches, not the courts, Alito wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11917111 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS55728_073_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1-1020x679.jpg']Joining Alito were Thomas and Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett. The latter three justices are Trump appointees. Thomas first voted to overrule Roe 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four justices would have left Roe and Casey in place. Chief Justice John Roberts would have stopped short of ending the abortion right, noting that he would have done no more than uphold the Mississippi law at the heart of the case, a ban on abortion after 15 weeks. He wrote that there was no need to overturn the broad abortion precedents to rule in Mississippi's favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan – the diminished liberal wing of the court – were in dissent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With sorrow – for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection – we dissent,\" they wrote, warning that abortion opponents now could pursue a nationwide ban \"from the moment of conception and without exceptions for rape or incest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Friday's ruling, the governors of California, Washington and Oregon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917796/california-oregon-and-washington-create-coalition-to-increase-abortion-access-for-those-in-other-states\">pledged to protect abortion rights and announced they'll form a new alliance to legally defend people from other states seeking an abortion\u003c/a>, and to protect medical providers, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling is expected to disproportionately affect low-income women and women of color, who already face limited access to health care, according to statistics analyzed by The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will cause particular harm to the nation's Black communities, said Rep. Joyce Beatty, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New restrictions on abortion will result in “government-mandated pregnancy” and the policing of women’s bodies, Beatty said, adding that the decision comes “in the midst of a Black maternal mortality crisis,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-decision-overturn#congressional-black-caucus-says-the-dobbs-decision-turns-back-the-hands-of-time\">according to reporting from NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department \"will work tirelessly to protect and advance reproductive freedom.\" He said in a statement that in addition to protecting providers and those seeking abortions in states where it is legal \"we stand ready to work with other arms of the federal government that seek to use their lawful authorities to protect and preserve access to reproductive care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11917541 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Lee-Mitchell_IMG_0090-2-1020x728.jpg']In particular, Garland said that the federal Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Mifepristone for medication abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"States may not ban Mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA's expert judgment about its safety and efficacy,\" Garland said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 90% of abortions take place in the first 13 weeks of pregnancy, and more than half are now done with pills, not surgery, according to data compiled by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mississippi's only abortion clinic, which is at the center of the case, continued to see patients Friday. Outside, men used a bullhorn to tell people inside the clinic that they would burn in hell. Clinic escorts wearing colorful vests used large stereo speakers to blast Tom Petty's \"I Won't Back Down\" at the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mississippi is one of 13 states, mainly in the South and Midwest, that already have laws on the books that ban abortion in the event Roe is overturned. Another half-dozen states have near-total bans or prohibitions after 6 weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Virginia's lone clinic performing abortions stopped after Friday's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In roughly a half-dozen other states, the fight will be over dormant abortion bans that were enacted before Roe was decided in 1973 or new proposals to sharply limit when abortions can be performed, according to Guttmacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wisconsin, which has an 1849 abortion ban on the books, Planned Parenthood immediately halted all scheduled abortions at its clinics in Madison and Milwaukee following the high court's ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision came against a backdrop of public opinion surveys that find a majority of Americans oppose overturning Roe and handing the question of whether to permit abortion entirely to the states. Polls conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and others also have consistently shown about 1 in 10 Americans want abortion to be illegal in all cases. A majority are in favor of abortion being legal in all or most circumstances, but polls indicate many also support restrictions especially later in pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration and other defenders of abortion rights have warned that a decision overturning Roe also would threaten other high court decisions in favor of gay rights and even potentially, contraception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The liberal justices made the same point in their joint dissent: The majority \"eliminates a 50-year-old constitutional right that safeguards women's freedom and equal station. It breaches a core rule-of-law principle, designed to promote constancy in the law. In doing all of that, it places in jeopardy other rights, from contraception to same-sex intimacy and marriage. And finally, it undermines the Court's legitimacy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11913295 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55729_078_KQED_AbortionRallySF_05032022-qut-1020x680.jpg']And Thomas, the member of the court most open to jettisoning prior decisions, wrote a separate opinion in which he explicitly called on his colleagues to put the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage, gay sex and even contraception cases on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alito contended that his analysis addresses abortion only. \"Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the intentions of the person who leaked Alito's draft opinion, the conservatives held firm in overturning Roe and Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his opinion, Alito dismissed the arguments in favor of retaining the two decisions, including that multiple generations of American women have partly relied on the right to abortion to gain economic and political power.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How we got here\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Changing the makeup of the court has been central to the anti-abortion side's strategy, as the dissenters archly noted. \"The Court reverses course today for one reason and one reason only: because the composition of this Court has changed,\" the liberal justices wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mississippi and its allies made increasingly aggressive arguments as the case developed, and two high-court defenders of abortion rights retired or died. The state initially argued that its law could be upheld without overruling the court's abortion precedents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Gov. Phil Bryant signed the 15-week measure into law in March 2018, when Justices Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were still members of a five-justice majority that was mainly protective of abortion rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early summer, Kennedy had retired and was replaced by Justice Brett Kavanaugh a few months later. The Mississippi law was blocked in lower federal courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state always was headed to the nation's highest court. It did not even ask for a hearing before a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ultimately held the law invalid in December 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early September 2020, the Supreme Court was ready to consider the state's appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court scheduled the case for consideration at the justices' private conference on Sept. 29. But in the intervening weeks, Ginsburg died and Barrett was quickly nominated and confirmed without a single Democratic vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stage now was set, although it took the court another half year to agree to hear the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='abortion']By the time Mississippi filed its main written argument with the court in the summer, the thrust of its argument had changed and it was now calling for the wholesale overruling of Roe and Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first sign that the court might be receptive to wiping away the constitutional right to abortion came in late summer, when the justices divided 5-4 in allowing Texas to enforce a ban on the procedure at roughly six weeks, before some women even know they are pregnant. That dispute turned on the unique structure of the law, including its enforcement by private citizens rather than by state officials, and how it can be challenged in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted in a searing dissent for the three liberal justices that their conservative colleagues refused to block \"a flagrantly unconstitutional law\" that \"flouts nearly 50 years of federal precedents.\" Roberts was also among the dissenters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in December, after hearing additional arguments over whether to block the Texas law known as S.B. 8, the court again declined to do so, also by a 5-4 vote. \"The clear purpose and actual effect of S. 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She was a member of anti-abortion groups at Notre Dame University, where she taught law, and she signed a newspaper ad opposing \"abortion on demand\" and defending \"the right to life from fertilization to natural death.\" She promised to set aside her personal views when judging cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump, meanwhile, had predicted as a candidate that whoever he named to the court would \"automatically\" vote to overrule Roe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Jessica Gresko, Alanna Durkin Richer in Boston, Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi and Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But that ruling only affirmed the right for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf\">self-defense within the home\u003c/a>,” leaving states with wide discretion over whether and how to restrict guns elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s ruling brings that constitutional right outside the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Confining the right to ‘bear’ arms to the home would make little sense,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court’s majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom called the ruling “shameful” and a “dark day for America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a dangerous decision from a court hell bent on pushing a radical ideological agenda and infringing on the rights of states to protect our citizens from being gunned down in our streets, schools, and churches,” the governor \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1539993469644447744?s=20&t=sjv9Ft93Ni-II6qkD03XOg\">said on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1539993469644447744?s=20&t=yo2sTI8Si1Vm5jHOV9hEmw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla joined Newsom in condemning the court’s ruling. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s decision will make our communities less safe, plain and simple,” Padilla said in a statement. “This dangerous decision misinterprets the Constitution and jeopardizes gun safety laws in a number of states, including California, which has some of the most effective gun safety measures in the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement that the high court is condoning mass shootings and the “ongoing tragedy of daily gun deaths plaguing our nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unfathomable that, while families in Uvalde, Buffalo and countless other communities mourn their loved ones stolen by gun violence, a supermajority of the Supreme Court has chosen to endanger more American lives,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most states either issue concealed carry licenses upon request or do not require licenses at all. But in eight states, applicants are required to show a compelling need before being granted permission to tote around a concealed firearm. Until Thursday’s ruling, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/03/1049380749/gun-rights-supreme-court-arguments-new-york\">New York was one of those states\u003c/a>. California is another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need,” Thomas wrote, offering a description of New York’s concealed carry law, but also California’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/81c2beb2-ad03-44b3-8083-a72264319fb8?src=embed\" title=\"Concealed carry regulations\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How easily a Californian is able to obtain a concealed weapon permit depends on where they live. That’s because in California these licenses are issued by local law enforcement — either city police chiefs or county sheriffs. And while state law requires applicants to demonstrate “good cause,” local law enforcement officials have wide latitude to define what that means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In counties with Republican sheriffs — \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/want-to-carry-a-concealed-gun-live-in-sacramento-not-san-francisco/\">Sacramento\u003c/a> and Tehama, for example — permits are issued to all qualified applicants so long as they pay the necessary fees, take a firearms safety class as required by state law and don’t have a criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco sits on the opposite end of the spectrum.\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsheriff.com/sites/default/files/2021-05/SFSD%2001-15%20CCW.pdf\"> According to county sheriff guidelines\u003c/a>, an applicant living in the city must “supply convincing evidence” that they are at “significant risk of danger” that local law enforcement “cannot adequately address” and “cannot reasonably be avoided by alternative measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s ruling doesn’t immediately invalidate restrictive concealed carry policies like those in San Francisco. But it does make legal challenges against California’s entire discretionary system much more likely to succeed. In 2017, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/supreme-court-guns-public-california.html\">declined to hear a challenge to California’s concealed carry law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s ruling could have much more sweeping implications that touch on all areas of California gun laws – from the state’s ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to its restrictions on “ghost guns.” That’s because the new ruling sets a higher bar for any firearm restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To justify its regulation, the government may not simply posit that the regulation promotes an important interest,” Thomas wrote. “Rather, the government must demonstrate that the regulation is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle & Pistol Association (the state’s National Rifle Association chapter), told CalMatters on Thursday that he plans to file a host of new legal briefs in existing court challenges against the state’s assault weapon ban, its background check requirements, its large capacity magazine ban and against Los Angeles County’s concealed carry restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said today’s ruling is “going to simplify the whole process of judging whether or not a gun law is constitutional” and that the State of California will now have a harder time arguing that its strict rules are legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='gun-control']At the same time the nation’s highest court expands the scope of the Second Amendment, Congress is on the verge of adding a few modest extra guardrails. In response to the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in which a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers with a semi-automatic rifle, the U.S. Senate passed a\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/21/1106466279/senators-reach-final-bipartisan-agreement-on-a-gun-safety-bill\"> bipartisan gun bill\u003c/a> on Wednesday over the objections of the National Rifle Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed by the House of Representatives and signed by President Joe Biden, as is expected, the measure would ratchet up some background checks for younger would-be gun buyers. It would also provide funding to states interested in introducing “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/06/california-gun-laws-biden/\">red-flag laws\u003c/a>,” which make it easier for authorities to temporarily remove firearms from those deemed to be a threat to themselves or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers in California are also considering their own raft of new gun bills. That includes legislation that would open gun vendors and manufacturers to an array of lawsuits for\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/12/texas-abortion-ban-newsom-assault-weapons/\"> violating state gun rules\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/05/california-gun-control-bill/\"> marketing guns and ammunition to minors\u003c/a> or others who aren’t allowed to own them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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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. 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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. 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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>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,000 protesters marched through the streets of downtown San Francisco on Tuesday in opposition to the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion that suggests justices will overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that guaranteed the federal constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Roe v. Wade is overturned, 26 states could immediately ban or severely limit abortions — making California the closest no-ban state within driving distance for millions of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many at Tuesday’s action expressed their solidarity with those who may lose access to abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jordan Elliott, San Francisco resident\"]'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.'[/pullquote]\"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>[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. 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>\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. Wade\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304042\">1 in 4 women in the U.S. are expected to get an abortion\u003c/a> at some point in their lives, according to a 2017 study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003cem>Roe v. Wade \u003c/em>is struck down, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/02/1096053620/supreme-court-roe-wade-leaked-draft-opinion-politico\">a leaked draft memo from the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c/a> suggests it could be, it will have a major impact in states across the country that have already signaled their intention to restrict or ban abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>States where abortion likely would become illegal if Roe v. Wade is overturned\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eighteen states have “trigger laws” to ban abortion if Roe is overturned or have pre-Roe abortion bans still on the books. 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.) Credit: NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/infographic/2021/58-us-women-reproductive-age-40-million-women-live-states-hostile-abortion-rights-0\">58% of U.S. women of reproductive age — or 40 million — live in states that are \"hostile\" to abortion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court verified that the document \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\">published by Politico \u003c/a>is authentic while noting that draft opinions can change before a final ruling. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/supreme-court-abortion-05-03-2022\">Chief Justice John Roberts has ordered an investigation into the leak\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft opinion about overturning \u003cem>Roe\u003c/em> would not ban abortion nationwide but instead allow states to drastically restrict or even ban abortion, which advocates for reproductive rights say could have seismic consequences for the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what a future without \u003cem>Roe v. Wade\u003c/em> could mean:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>More than \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/02/1061015753/abortion-roe-v-wade-trigger-laws-mississippi-jacksons-womens-health-organization\">\u003cstrong>20 states have laws that could restrict or ban abortion \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>soon after the Supreme Court overturns \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Roe\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>, according to Guttmacher. \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1061896291/trigger-laws-are-abortion-bans-ready-to-go-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned\">One type of statute, called a \"trigger law,\" is designed to take effect after a Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a>. Some states also still have pre-\u003cem>Roe \u003c/em>abortion bans on the books that haven't been enforced. 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. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Here%27s+what+could+happen+if+Roe+v.+Wade+is+overturned&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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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 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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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. 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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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This is a great moment for Judge Jackson but it is an even greater moment for America as we rise to a more perfect union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden called the vote a “historic moment” for the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve taken another step toward making our highest court reflect the diversity of America,” Biden posted on Twitter with an image of him taking a selfie with Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1512139093135835153\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 50 Senate Democrats, including the two independents who caucus with them, voted for Jackson’s confirmation. They were joined by three Republicans: Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President Kamala Harris took the gavel in her role as head of the Senate to preside over the vote. 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While four members of the current court were at one time prosecutors, Jackson, if nominated, would be the first Supreme Court justice since Thurgood Marshall to have represented indigent criminal defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the White House event, Jackson opened her remarks by saying she was humbled by the nomination, noting that it came at a time when there was a lot going on in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I must begin these very brief remarks by thanking God for delivering me to this point in my professional journey,” she said. “My life has been blessed beyond measure and I do know that one can only come this far by faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, she noted she shares a birthday with Constance Baker Motley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2022/02/03/248994291/the-life-of-a-civil-rights-queen\">the first Black woman ever to be appointed as a federal judge\u003c/a>. Jackson said she stands on her shoulders and shares her commitment to equal justice under the law. “I can only hope that my life and career, my love of this country and the Constitution … will inspire future generations of Americans,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of Jackson’s nomination was cheered by California senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein, both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden has made an exceptional choice with his historic nomination,” Padilla said in a statement. “Throughout her career as a public defender, a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and a federal judge, Judge Jackson has consistently demonstrated a commitment to equal justice under law, respect for the Constitution, and a clear understanding of the impact that the law can have on ordinary Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Judge Jackson is an experienced jurist and an outstanding nominee,” said Feinstein in a statement. “She embodies President Biden’s commitment to ensuring that the federal judiciary is representative of America as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Work as a public defender\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to her work as a public defender, Jackson practiced at law firms large and small and served as vice chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission at a time when it sought to reduce the draconian penalties for crack cocaine, penalties that were 100 times more severe than for powder cocaine. At the Sentencing Commission, she earned a reputation for building consensus, and most of the panel’s decisions were unanimous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jackson, sentencing was not an abstract matter. One uncle is a former Miami police chief; another was a sex crimes detective; and her younger brother was a Baltimore police undercover agent. But her family also has had experience with the scourge of drugs. Her father’s older brother was sentenced to life in prison under a federal three-strikes law aimed at repeat drug offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 15 years behind bars, he contacted Jackson, by then a public defender, seeking help. According to The Washington Post, Jackson felt sympathy for her uncle, but saw no legal options for him at the time. Later, though, after learning that the law firm of Wilmer Hale was handling clemency cases free of charge, she referred her uncle to the firm. The Post quoted Wilmer Hale as saying that the case was referred “years before Judge Jackson became a federal judge” and that “she had no further involvement in the matter.” Eventually, the uncle would be one of 1,700 people whose sentences for nonviolent drug crimes were commuted by President Barack Obama, more than the past 12 presidents combined. By the time of the uncle’s release, he was 78 and in poor health. He died four months later, according to the Post.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump-era record\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Jackson was nominated for a seat on the federal trial court. Her confirmation went smoothly, with numerous lawyers on the right, as well as the left, supporting the nomination. She was confirmed for the trial court by a voice vote in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a trial judge, Jackson earned a reputation for hard work, a raucous laugh and more than 500 opinions, some of them noteworthy not just for the outcome but their length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most prominent was an opinion ordering President Trump’s former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify in its investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 elections. In it, she wrote, “Presidents are not kings. This means that they do not have subjects bound by loyalty or blood, whose destiny they are entitled to control.” But the opinion, which numbered some 119 pages, took four months to write, allowing Trump to essentially run out the clock as president. Ultimately, McGahn did testify before the committee in 2021 after the Justice Department, by then under control of the Biden administration, and the committee reached an agreement on the terms of his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='u-s-supreme-court']In 2018 Jackson, in another decision against Trump, ruled in favor of federal employee unions that were contesting several executive orders limiting the collective bargaining rights of federal workers. A federal appeals court panel reversed her decision on grounds that the unions had to pursue their claims first through an agency administrative process, and only after that, the appeals court said, could the unions go to federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another Trump-era case, Jackson sided with the administration, concluding that the Department of Homeland Security could waive more than two dozen environmental laws in order to construct a segment of the wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grilled by Senate Republicans on race\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackson’s nomination to the D.C. Circuit also went relatively smoothly after she was nominated by President Biden last year. Still, she got quite a grilling from some conservative senators on the Judiciary Committee. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., for instance, asked her this question: “Do you think that the U.S. criminal justice system is systemically racist or is infected with systematic racism and bias?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are not terms that I use in the law when we look at issues of race,” she replied, adding that in examining whether there has been race discrimination, courts “will generally look for attorneys to prove up discriminatory intent, discriminatory impact, in some cases, retaliation. There is no Supreme Court doctrine that speaks to systemic racism,” and those “aren’t words that I’ve ever used in a court of law to make claims based under the constitution or the applicable statutes. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked her about her representation of clients in a case involving prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Jackson said she filed a friend-of-the-court brief, representing 20 former federal judges who wanted to make the point that evidence obtained by torture would not have been accepted by the English courts in the system of common law that is the basis for ours. Cruz pressed further, asking her what led her to take on the case. She replied that she worked in a big firm and was assigned to represent the firm’s clients, who, in this case, were a group of judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., similarly challenged her about the case, she noted that at the time she was assigned to work on it, her brother was deployed to Iraq with the military. And in a follow-up written answer, she said that she was “keenly aware” of the threat posed by the 9/11 attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, she was confirmed by a vote of 53-44, with three Republican senators supporting her — Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and the Judiciary Committee ranking Republican, Lindsey Graham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the appeals court, she most recently was part of a unanimous panel that upheld a congressional subpoena for White House records related to the Jan. 6 riots. When Trump appealed to the Supreme Court, the justices left the lower court ruling intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From Miami to Harvard\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., where her parents were schoolteachers. They soon moved to Miami, where her father went to law school and rose to become the school board’s top lawyer, while her mother became a school principal. One of her earliest memories of the law, she has said, was sitting next to her father in the evening while he studied law books and she worked on her coloring books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In high school, Jackson was a national oratory champion, then graduated with honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor on the law review. She clerked for three federal judges, including Justice Breyer, the man she would replace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson met her husband, Patrick Jackson, when the two were at Harvard College. He was, she says, her first “serious boyfriend” and has remained that ever since. They have two daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first blush, they look like an improbable couple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she put it in a charming — and candid — speech at the University of Georgia law school \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_house/41/\">in March 2017\u003c/a>, “Patrick is a quintessential ‘Boston Brahmin’ — his family can be traced back to England before the Mayflower. … He and his twin brother are, in fact, the sixth generation in their family to graduate from Harvard College. By contrast, I am only the second generation in my family to go to \u003cem>any\u003c/em> college, and I am fairly certain that if you traced my family lineage back past my grandparents — who were raised in Georgia, by the way — you would find that my ancestors were slaves on both sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal Judge Patti Saris, who hired Jackson as a law clerk straight out of law school, recalls her husband, who now looks full-on prep, as less so back then. At the time, he was a surgical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, but he was so fascinated by his wife’s work he would often go to the courtroom after a long night on call to watch what was going on. As Saris remembers, the young doctor had often been up for 24-plus hours and looked incredibly scruffy, sitting in the back of the courtroom. Finally, one day, the judge’s courtroom marshal came up to her and whispered, “Judge, would you like me to remove the homeless man in the back row?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor, a star in the surgical world today, is the first to toot his wife’s horn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Brown said in that Georgia speech that being a federal judge was always her “dream job.” But after Obama nominated her in 2012, actually getting that job depended entirely on events beyond her control, namely Obama’s reelection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And when you add to that,” she said, “the fact that I am related by marriage to … Paul Ryan [then the House speaker], who was at that point running for vice president against President Obama, you can get the sense of what that period was like for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As difficult as that confirmation may have seemed at the time, it may in hindsight be something of a picnic compared to what she is likely to face her as a nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>KQED’s David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. 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Still, she got quite a grilling from some conservative senators on the Judiciary Committee. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., for instance, asked her this question: “Do you think that the U.S. criminal justice system is systemically racist or is infected with systematic racism and bias?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are not terms that I use in the law when we look at issues of race,” she replied, adding that in examining whether there has been race discrimination, courts “will generally look for attorneys to prove up discriminatory intent, discriminatory impact, in some cases, retaliation. There is no Supreme Court doctrine that speaks to systemic racism,” and those “aren’t words that I’ve ever used in a court of law to make claims based under the constitution or the applicable statutes. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked her about her representation of clients in a case involving prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Jackson said she filed a friend-of-the-court brief, representing 20 former federal judges who wanted to make the point that evidence obtained by torture would not have been accepted by the English courts in the system of common law that is the basis for ours. Cruz pressed further, asking her what led her to take on the case. She replied that she worked in a big firm and was assigned to represent the firm’s clients, who, in this case, were a group of judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., similarly challenged her about the case, she noted that at the time she was assigned to work on it, her brother was deployed to Iraq with the military. And in a follow-up written answer, she said that she was “keenly aware” of the threat posed by the 9/11 attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, she was confirmed by a vote of 53-44, with three Republican senators supporting her — Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and the Judiciary Committee ranking Republican, Lindsey Graham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the appeals court, she most recently was part of a unanimous panel that upheld a congressional subpoena for White House records related to the Jan. 6 riots. When Trump appealed to the Supreme Court, the justices left the lower court ruling intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From Miami to Harvard\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., where her parents were schoolteachers. They soon moved to Miami, where her father went to law school and rose to become the school board’s top lawyer, while her mother became a school principal. One of her earliest memories of the law, she has said, was sitting next to her father in the evening while he studied law books and she worked on her coloring books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In high school, Jackson was a national oratory champion, then graduated with honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor on the law review. She clerked for three federal judges, including Justice Breyer, the man she would replace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson met her husband, Patrick Jackson, when the two were at Harvard College. He was, she says, her first “serious boyfriend” and has remained that ever since. They have two daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first blush, they look like an improbable couple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she put it in a charming — and candid — speech at the University of Georgia law school \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_house/41/\">in March 2017\u003c/a>, “Patrick is a quintessential ‘Boston Brahmin’ — his family can be traced back to England before the Mayflower. … He and his twin brother are, in fact, the sixth generation in their family to graduate from Harvard College. By contrast, I am only the second generation in my family to go to \u003cem>any\u003c/em> college, and I am fairly certain that if you traced my family lineage back past my grandparents — who were raised in Georgia, by the way — you would find that my ancestors were slaves on both sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal Judge Patti Saris, who hired Jackson as a law clerk straight out of law school, recalls her husband, who now looks full-on prep, as less so back then. At the time, he was a surgical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, but he was so fascinated by his wife’s work he would often go to the courtroom after a long night on call to watch what was going on. As Saris remembers, the young doctor had often been up for 24-plus hours and looked incredibly scruffy, sitting in the back of the courtroom. 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While there, she twice received the attorney general’s award for exceptional service, the department’s “highest award for employee performance.” Her legal experience also includes two short stints at large law firms in Washington, D.C., and a year as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2021, she had amassed a legal reputation so distinguished that Attorney General Merrick Garland twice asked her to serve as solicitor general in the Biden administration, to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kruger’s standout career\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kruger’s mother is an immigrant from Jamaica, and her late father was the Jewish son of Polish immigrants. Both parents were pediatricians, and her mother, now 80, is still in practice. Kruger was raised in Pasadena, then graduated with honors from Harvard College and went on to Yale Law School, where she was elected editor-in-chief of the law review, the first Black woman to hold that position. After law school, she held two judicial clerkships, the second for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is married to Brian Hauck, a lawyer, and the couple has two children, a son and a daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At each point in her career, Kruger has been a standout, so much so that when she was 38, California Gov. Jerry Brown, himself a Yale Law School graduate, recruited her for an opening on the state Supreme Court, where he had once been a law clerk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was interested in building back the stature of the court, restoring the prestige it had in the 1960s and 1970s when it was widely viewed as one of the most respected and influential courts in the country. Kruger’s name kept popping up in his search for the country’s most extraordinary lawyers. Soon after interviewing her, he nominated her to fill a vacant seat on the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Biden decides to nominate her to the nation’s highest court, Kruger would be the first U.S. Supreme Court justice since Justice David Souter, appointed in 1990, whose principal prior judicial experience was on a state court. But she would not be the only woman from that legal background: The court’s first female justice, Sandra Day O’Connor, was an intermediate-level state appeals court judge when President Ronald Reagan appointed her to the Supreme Court in 1981, carrying out a campaign pledge he made to name a woman if a vacancy occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>At the center of the California Supreme Court\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kruger’s record on the California Supreme Court is, in many ways, much like the record of Justice Stephen Breyer, whose seat she would fill. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-kruger-court-20180531-story.html\">2018 interview with The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>, Kruger said she tries to do the job “in a way that enhances the predictability and stability of the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"leondra-kruger\"]“Justice Kruger does not appear to be motivated by a partisan agenda; instead her opinions apply a rigorous analysis regardless of what the result favors,” \u003ca href=\"http://scocablog.com/a-profile-of-california-supreme-court-justice-leondra-reid-kruger/\">concluded SCOCAblog\u003c/a>, which monitors California Supreme Court decisions and conducted a qualitative and quantitative analysis of her record between 2015 and 2021. The analysis, part of a project at UC Berkeley and Hastings law schools, concluded that Kruger was ideologically at the midpoint of the court, and that she was “not aligned with any ideological coalition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, SCOCAblog also found that she sided with criminal defendants slightly more often than with prosecutors. Conversely, the analysis found that in some cases Kruger has voted to affirm the death penalty, over the dissent of two of her more liberal colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kruger has considered a large number of death penalty cases because state law provides an automatic appeal in capital cases. Most of these are uncontroversial and result in the court unanimously upholding the punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others may likewise be unanimous but more controversial because they reverse a death sentence in a high-profile case. For instance, in the case of Scott Peterson, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2002 murders of his pregnant wife and unborn child, Kruger wrote the decision for the unanimous court. Her opinion said that the trial judge had made “a series of clear and significant errors in jury selection that, under long-standing U.S. Supreme Court precedent, undermined Peterson’s right to an impartial jury at the penalty phase” of the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SCOCAblog analysis found that in interpreting statutes, Kruger is not a “strict textualist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Justice Kruger has, for example, recognized that a statute should not be ‘blindly and literally applied’ when doing so would lead to an ‘obvious injustice and a perversion of the legislative purpose,'” the analysis found, describing her instead as an “incrementalist,” seeking to make “narrow changes in the law rather than expansive rulings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Obama-era case may dog her nomination\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If there is a sleeping dog for Republicans to probe in her record, it is one of the 12 cases she argued during her years in the solicitor general’s office, a case that pitted the constitutional guarantee to the free exercise of religion against federal laws that bar discrimination based on race, sex or, in the particular case she argued, disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the case reached the high court in 2012, lower courts had recognized something known as the “ministerial exception,” which protects churches and other religious groups from being sued for certain hiring and firing decisions that would otherwise violate the nation’s antidiscrimination laws. But the Supreme Court itself had not yet recognized such an exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case testing that proposition involved a lay teacher who had special religious training as a “called” teacher. \u003ca href=\"https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-553.pdf\">She was fired after being diagnosed with narcolepsy.\u003c/a> The church maintained that such hiring and firing disputes must be decided within the church, while the Obama administration argued that in a case involving a lay teacher, even one with special religious training and ordained as a “called teacher,” there was no such automatic ministerial exception; furthermore, according to the administration’s argument, the religion clauses of the Constitution — barring establishment of religion and guaranteeing free exercise — had only limited relevance when it came to laws banning discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kruger argued the case in the Supreme Court, gamely defending the government’s position even as the justices, both liberal and conservative, responded with incredulity. Twice, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia called her position “extraordinary.” And her one-time boss, Justice Kagan, called it “amazing.” Kruger remained poised and confident in her responses throughout, but in the end, she did not get a single vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/06/02/480378708/donald-verrilli-who-argued-groundbreaking-cases-for-the-government-stepping-down\">Donald Verrilli, the solicitor general at the time\u003c/a>, says the position Kruger took was his alone. “If I had one thing I could take back from my years as solicitor general, it would be the position we took in that case,” he said in an interview with NPR. “It was the first decision I made when taking over in the summer of 2012, and I blew it. The fault was mine alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who have worked in the solicitor general’s office, that is a perfectly plausible, even likely, account. 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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. Wade\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story continues:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a case challenging \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/20/1038972266/supreme-court-date-roe-wade-dobbs-jackson-womens\">Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>, the landmark 1973 decision guaranteeing the right to an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case before the court considers whether a Mississippi state ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy is constitutional. The decision could undercut current law, which allows for abortion procedures up until a fetus is deemed viable — usually around 24 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s ultimate decision could have vast implications for millions of pregnant people living in an estimated 26 conservative states across the country, where officials have long worked to restrict abortion access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two people with face masks sit in an office.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Xiong, left, the director of health services at Women’s Health Specialists, and Katrina Maczen-Cantrell, the executive director, meet at the group’s Chico clinic on Nov. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But whichever direction the conservative-leaning court goes, its decision likely will have little bearing on access to the procedure in California, where the fundamental right to obtain an abortion before viability is guaranteed, and will remain so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That assurance, however, doesn’t mean it’s always easy to terminate a pregnancy in California, especially in many rural parts of the state.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Laura Morehouse, director's assistant at Women's Health Specialists\"]‘These are people who have minimum-wage jobs. They can’t afford to take time off. They can’t afford additional child care.’[/pullquote]Laura Morehouse knows firsthand just how difficult it can be. When she sought an abortion about 10 years ago, she struggled to find a clinic that would do surgical abortions, and that could provide the service at a rate she could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My abortion was going to cost me around $1,000,” Morehouse said. “I made minimum wage at the time. I worked part time as a cashier. So that was terrifying, absolutely terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morehouse now works as an assistant at \u003ca href=\"https://www.womenshealthspecialists.org/\">Women’s Health Specialists\u003c/a> in Chico. The clinic, with three locations in California, provides abortions, and Morehouse says she deeply relates to patients who face even greater challenges than she once did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A 2-story wood-paneled building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside the Women’s Health Specialists clinic in Chico. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are single parents. These are young people. These are people who have minimum-wage jobs,” Morehouse said. “They can’t afford to take time off. They can’t afford additional child care. They can’t afford the gas. These are people who have to travel two, three hours one way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2017 study, the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights advocacy and policy organization, found that some \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abortion-california#1\">40% of mostly rural counties\u003c/a> in California — home to hundreds of thousands of women in the state — had no clinics that provided abortions. That means even in a state with some of the nation’s most progressive abortion laws, many must travel over 100 miles to find a provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like it was for Morehouse, the cost of an abortion, which rises sharply as a pregnancy progresses, also continues to be a major barrier for many lower-income pregnant people, including those with insurance. A medical abortion in California, in which pills are used to terminate a pregnancy, costs an average of $306 out of pocket, according to an \u003ca href=\"http://analyses.chbrp.com/document/view.php?id=1542\">analysis by the California Health Benefits Review Program\u003c/a>, but can’t be done after 10 weeks. The only option after that, a surgical abortion, costs an average of over $1,000 out of pocket, when factoring all associated expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52686_009_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897289\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52686_009_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses and a masks sits behind a desk seen through glass.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52686_009_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52686_009_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52686_009_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52686_009_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52686_009_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A staff member at the Women’s Health Specialists clinic in Chico checks in patients on Nov. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In some more conservative-leaning areas of the state, where anti-abortion sentiment is strong, safety also can be a concern — both to those seeking procedures and those running the clinics that provide them.[aside postID=\"news_11887229,forum_2010101885934,forum_2010101886287\" label=\"Related Posts]Katrina Maczen-Cantrell, the executive director of Women’s Health Specialists, who oversees the clinic in Chico as well as the group’s locations in Redding and Grass Valley, says community disapproval of abortion in some rural areas can drive providers away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not, in our 45 years, really managed to have local providers,” Maczen-Cantrell said. “No local physician wants to remain in the community. It was just for so long, literally, physically hostile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threats aren’t just theoretical. In the early 1990s, Maczen-Cantrell’s clinics in Redding, Chico and a now-closed location in Sacramento were \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/9fab4c5afa4c87f1e58ae053010d7b15\">the targets of arson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/Pre_96/October94/607.txt.html\">acid attacks\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she said, many of those tensions remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to have protesters who harass, intimidate and threaten at our sites on abortion clinic days,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897290\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52687_012_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897290\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52687_012_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\" alt='Yellow pieces of paper that read \"survival guide\" and a white sign that reads \"free condoms\" with a purple wrappers sits on a table.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52687_012_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52687_012_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52687_012_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52687_012_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52687_012_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Literature and condoms sit on a table in the waiting room at the Women’s Health Specialists clinic in Chico on Nov. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maczen-Cantrell’s clinic does not divulge the exact number of abortions they perform, but staff members suggested demand for the procedure remained high, despite the myriad obstacles often involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the fate of Roe v. Wade uncertain, and the possibility that California could see a major influx of people from out of state seeking abortions, Maczen-Cantrell and her staff say they’re ready to help anyone who may need to travel here to get one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she points out, many patients don’t have the resources to travel for several days in search of a provider. What they really need, she says, is safe, reliable care close to where they live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update June 24, 2022: The decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was announced 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>The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a case challenging \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/20/1038972266/supreme-court-date-roe-wade-dobbs-jackson-womens\">Roe v. Wade\u003c/a>, the landmark 1973 decision guaranteeing the right to an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case before the court considers whether a Mississippi state ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy is constitutional. The decision could undercut current law, which allows for abortion procedures up until a fetus is deemed viable — usually around 24 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s ultimate decision could have vast implications for millions of pregnant people living in an estimated 26 conservative states across the country, where officials have long worked to restrict abortion access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two people with face masks sit in an office.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52688_014_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Xiong, left, the director of health services at Women’s Health Specialists, and Katrina Maczen-Cantrell, the executive director, meet at the group’s Chico clinic on Nov. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But whichever direction the conservative-leaning court goes, its decision likely will have little bearing on access to the procedure in California, where the fundamental right to obtain an abortion before viability is guaranteed, and will remain so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That assurance, however, doesn’t mean it’s always easy to terminate a pregnancy in California, especially in many rural parts of the state.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Laura Morehouse knows firsthand just how difficult it can be. When she sought an abortion about 10 years ago, she struggled to find a clinic that would do surgical abortions, and that could provide the service at a rate she could afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My abortion was going to cost me around $1,000,” Morehouse said. “I made minimum wage at the time. I worked part time as a cashier. So that was terrifying, absolutely terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morehouse now works as an assistant at \u003ca href=\"https://www.womenshealthspecialists.org/\">Women’s Health Specialists\u003c/a> in Chico. The clinic, with three locations in California, provides abortions, and Morehouse says she deeply relates to patients who face even greater challenges than she once did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A 2-story wood-paneled building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52697_022_Chico_WomensHealthSpecialists_11182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside the Women’s Health Specialists clinic in Chico. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are single parents. These are young people. These are people who have minimum-wage jobs,” Morehouse said. “They can’t afford to take time off. They can’t afford additional child care. They can’t afford the gas. These are people who have to travel two, three hours one way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2017 study, the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights advocacy and policy organization, found that some \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abortion-california#1\">40% of mostly rural counties\u003c/a> in California — home to hundreds of thousands of women in the state — had no clinics that provided abortions. That means even in a state with some of the nation’s most progressive abortion laws, many must travel over 100 miles to find a provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like it was for Morehouse, the cost of an abortion, which rises sharply as a pregnancy progresses, also continues to be a major barrier for many lower-income pregnant people, including those with insurance. 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