“Too many times, history has shown us that human rights must be enshrined in the constitution so that no one can infringe upon them. This is one such historic moment, and it must be met with a historic response,” Senate Pro Tempore Toni Atkins said.
The bill, Senate Constitutional Amendment 10, comes weeks after a leaked draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court suggests justices are poised to overturn Roe v. Wade – the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed constitutional protections for abortions. If the court moves to overturn the ruling, more than two-dozen states could be poised to ban abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
“Too many times, history has shown us that human rights must be enshrined in the constitution so that no one can infringe upon them. This is one such historic moment, and it must be met with a historic response,” Senate Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, said in a statement Wednesday. The constitutional amendment comes on top of a legislative package of bills that aim to expand reproductive rights for people in the state and others who may come from out of state to seek an abortion in California. One bill in the package would provide grants to organizations that assist low-income pregnant individuals with accessing abortion in California, while another would protect pregnant individuals from the enforcement of out-of-state civil actions related to abortion within California.
SCA 10 is jointly-authored by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, who said in a statement that denying women the “ability to make their own healthcare decisions is to deny that we are all equal.”
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