Senate Bill 233, which is co-sponsored by the leaders of theLegislative Women’s Caucus in the state legislature, would allow licensed Arizona doctors in good standing to provide abortion-related service in California to Arizonans traveling to the Golden State. It comes weeks after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld an 1864 state abortion law, which bans the procedure unless a mother faces immediate life-threatening conditions.
The Arizona abortion providers will need to register with California’s Medical Board and Osteopathic Medical Board, who will oversee them. The legislation would allow this temporary safe haven through Nov. 30, and would take effect upon the governor’s signature. “She inspired this framework and she inspired this support, and we have been in contact. As it relates to the particularities — the peculiarities — of the legislation, we have not been working with her counsel in that respect, but certainly the spirit of what she was looking for,” Newsom said at a press conference on Wednesday.
“I don’t know how everything just doesn’t stop and we’re not out there saying enough. This would never happen if it was men, we know that. This is really sick, what’s happening in this country right now. And spare me this freedom gospel,” he added. Democratic state Sen. Nancy Skinner, chairwoman of the women’s caucus, said the bill shows the Golden State’s commitment to being a “safe haven” for abortion providers.
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