CV NEWS FEED // The California Catholic Conference has warned voters about three radically pro-abortion bills that the California ProLife Council has dubbed the “deadly California bills.”
All three bills have already passed the state assembly and are awaiting the Senate’s vote, according to an Archdiocese of San Francisco article. If the Senate passes the bills, they would only require Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature.
The first bill, AB 2085 or “Planning and zoning: permitted use: community clinic,” expedites the permit process for building an abortion clinic, making “it nearly impossible for a local government to reject the building of an abortion facility,” the article states. The bill “requires a local government to approve or deny the application within 60 days and also sets a short time frame for the appeal process.”
The second bill, AB 2670 or “Awareness campaign: abortion services,” demands that California’s Department of Public Health raise an awareness campaign for the state’s abortion website, “abortion.ca.gov.” The California ProLife Council, an affiliate of the National Right to Life, explained that this would indirectly target crisis pregnancy centers as “fake” in comparison to abortion clinics. The state already has an awareness campaign for the abortion website.
The third bill, AB 2490 or “Reproductive Health Emergency Preparedness Program,” “requires emergency rooms to receive training on abortion,” according to the article.
“This is something that emergency departments already have but this places it in statute, according to the California Catholic Conference,” the article continues.
Molly Sheahan, associate director for Healthy Families of the California Catholic Conference, expressed her concern over the legislation.
“Pushing unwanted abortion on our communities is exploitative and is reproductive coercion. What women in maternity care deserts and in underserved communities cannot find are enough doctors who can safely monitor them through pregnancy and deliver their infants,” she stated.
Sheahan also pointed out that 25% of California’s pregnant women receive inadequate medical care during pregnancy, and that the maternal death rate in California has doubled since 1999, with the most marked increases among African-American and Native American mothers.
“California is failing at reproductive healthcare that women need, and lawmakers need to ensure parity for the choices of pregnant and parenting women as they pursue motherhood,” Sheahan concluded. “These pregnancy needs ought not be ignored.”
