“Access to reproductive health services, including abortion, is a long-protected right in California,” Governor Brown said in his veto message.
However, he added that because the average distance to abortion providers in campus communities is five to seven miles, as stated in a study sponsored by the SB320 supporters, the bill is “not necessary.”
California Senator Connie Leyva originally introduced SB 320 in Feb. 2017. The bill passed its final vote in the California State Senate on Aug. 30, 2018.
The bill would have required all University of California and California State University campuses to offer the pills by Jan. 1, 2022, including UC Santa Barbara.
“It is the intent of the Legislature that public university student health centers make abortion by medication techniques as accessible and cost-effective for students as possible, and thus public university student health centers should treat abortion by medication techniques as a basic health service,” according to the bill’s text.
Full story at The Daily Nexus.
To read Governor Brown’s statement, click here.
PRAISE BE TO GOD!!!
I believe that California’s Bill sb320, Using stte and community colleges to distribute morning after pills to all students, was a decoy to divert pro life, Christian and Traditional parents and citizens attention away from the gvernor’s real intent. He has signed many many bills that expand Government control over personal lives from age 2 years through to old age and a pathway to death at a time certain. It’s called Cradle to Career education. In his way of skewed thinking, by re-programming the human mind to accept the humanistic ways of life, there will be less need for abortion because people will self-limit the births of children throuogh artificial and chemical means, Learning wll begin at age 2 throughout life. That’s the true…
He did the right thing for all the wrong reasons.
That is definitely wisdom.