Legislation intended to shore up abortion access, by amending state constitutions to enshrine abortion, and to expand abortion funding has recently been passed or is under consideration in a number of other states, including New Jersey, Vermont, Maryland, Michigan, Colorado, Oregon and Washington.
Apparently, this is of no concern to the Democrat-controlled California Legislature, which is in the process of enacting the abortion industry’s requests into law, or to Newsom, who publicly pledged “we’ll be a sanctuary” at the time of the release of the “Future of Abortion” report. Obviously, forcing faithful Catholics and other pro-life Californians to fund these abortions would be an egregious breach of their conscience rights and of religious freedom. Among other things, the abortion lobby’s post- Roe wish list demands that the government of California pay for travel expenses incurred by women who come to the state for abortions and that it reimburse abortion providers when out-of-state women can’t pay for abortions themselves. Gavin Newsom last year commissioned a report on the “Future of Abortion,” drafted by Planned Parenthood and a coalition of other abortion providers and lobbyists. While these are encouraging signs, the potential return of primary authority over abortion to state governments also has a dark side: Pro-abortion state governments are mobilizing aggressively to protect and enhance abortion rights in their own backyards - and in some cases are positioning themselves to project the culture of death more broadly, by serving as “sanctuaries” where women from pro-life states can come to obtain abortions.Ĭalifornia is the most glaring example of this abortion extremism. Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs case. This ballot initiative is being watched very closely by groups across the nation because it will be the first public vote following the expected release of the U.S. While the ballot initiative would not automatically bring an end to abortion procedures in the state, it would set the stage for doing so. The ballot initiative would effectively overturn a 6-1 decision by the Kansas Supreme Court in 2019 that ruled that the state’s Bill of Rights included such a right. 2 primary elections, voters will be asked to consider an amendment that would explicitly clarify that the Kansas Constitution does not contain a right to an abortion. Recognizing that the future of abortion is in jeopardy, the Biden administration and the Democratic Party’s congressional leadership attempted - in concert with the abortion lobby - to pre-empt pro-life gains at the state level by enshrining abortion rights legislatively at the national level via passage of the so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act.” Fortunately, this horrific pro-abortion bill, which would have been worse than Roe, failed at the end of February in the Senate.Īttention is also beginning to focus on Kansas, a state with a long and difficult history in the battle over abortion. Planned Parenthood decisions have imposed on our nation for almost 50 years.Īnticipating this outcome, many pro-life state governments are moving to pass laws that sharply restrict access to abortion, or even to ban the life-ending practice entirely by amending their state constitutions. Jackson case that hopefully will remove the pro-abortion legal straitjacket that the court’s earlier Roe v. Supreme Court is expected to deliver a decision in the Dobbs v.
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