California legislators passed a bill Friday that would require all state universities to offer medication abortions, despite the objections of pro-life leaders.
In a Sept. 16 statement, Andrew Rivas, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, encouraged California Governor Gavin Newsom to oppose the bill.
“We urge him to veto this unprecedented and unnecessary legislation because it purposely narrows a young woman’s choices and puts the state’s prestigious academic institutions in a position of actually promoting, facilitating and potentially funding only abortions,” he said.
The California State Assembly voted 55-19 in favor of the bill. It had passed through the Senate in May. Newsom has a month to decide whether to veto the bill or sign it into law.
Currently, a majority of campus health centers offer gynecological services and contraceptives, but they will refer students seeking an abortion to an off-campus abortion clinic. If the bill passes, all 34 public universities throughout California will be required to offer medical abortions for the first 10 weeks of a pregnancy.
The proposal would be funded by the College Student Health Center Sexual and Reproductive Health Preparation Fund, which would be established under the bill and administered through the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls.
Full story at Catholic News Agency.
The Governor is a craven coward, so it is likely he will do nothing, except issue support for abortion. However, God is certainly greater than Gavin Newsom, so we can pray, and hope, for something better.
what do you THINK this
Grievous Nuisance will do ??
The governor claims to be a practicing Catholic. Yet he has gone beyond the pro-abortion actions of so many who call themselves Catholic (California has so many of these in government) to a new level, in his verbal support for SB 24. When a person chooses employment in an abortion facility, he volunteers to participate in some aspect of the abortion process. But there are probably thousands of employees of state college/university health centers across California, and not one of them signed up to be a part of the abortion process. With a stroke of the pen, Gavin Newsom may make them participants in abortion without a by-your-leave. Aside from the routine violation of our consciences indirectly by taxing us Californians to pay for abortions, there is no other state-imposed requirement to be part of the act of abortion. Not until and unless Newsom signs this horrid bill.
He will approve. The Pro Abortion industry is one of his biggest benefactors. He is also a moral coward. These drugs are a chemical assault on a woman’s body. I wouldn’t give them to a dead horse.
Is it my imagination or is the dear Governor becoming a watery-eyed, old man whose spirit is being sucked out of him?
Seriously, he has noticeably physically deteriorated in the last two years.