Folks argue as a gaggle of anti-abortion rights protesters crashes the Girls’s March Motion Rally for Reproductive Rights at Mariachi Plaza in Los Angeles on Oct. 8.
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Folks argue as a gaggle of anti-abortion rights protesters crashes the Girls’s March Motion Rally for Reproductive Rights at Mariachi Plaza in Los Angeles on Oct. 8.
David Mcnew/AFP through Getty Photos
LOS ANGELES — California will amend the state structure to ensure the appropriate to abortion and contraception. Voters authorized the poll measure often called Proposition 1, in response to a name by The Related Press.
Proposition 1 was a direct response to the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group ruling. State Democratic leaders launched the proposition language after a draft of the Dobbs resolution leaked final spring. Following the excessive court docket’s closing resolution in June, the Democratically managed state Senate authorized placing it on the poll.
The language voters endorsed will add to the California Structure that “the state shall not deny or intervene with a person’s reproductive freedom of their most intimate choices, which incorporates their elementary proper to decide on to have an abortion and their elementary proper to decide on or refuse contraceptives.”
Present state legislation permits abortions earlier than the fetus is viable, typically round 24 weeks right into a being pregnant. Abortions may also be carried out after viability, however provided that a physician determines a pregnant individual’s life or well being is in peril.
The brand new constitutional modification does not include the phrase ‘viability,’ and authorized students do not agree about whether or not the viability customary that’s in place will stay.
Some say the language is simply too broad, probably opening the modification as much as being struck down by courts sooner or later.
Courts could need to type out the main points later, however passage of the constitutional modification cements California as an abortion sanctuary.
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