{"id":192277,"date":"2018-12-09T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T19:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=192277"},"modified":"2018-12-07T21:34:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T03:34:24","slug":"ca-lawmakers-again-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ca-lawmakers-again-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite veto, CA lawmakers again push for abortion pill at public universities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In September, pro-abortion California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the bill<\/a>\u00a0that would have required all public universities in California to provide the abortion pill for its students. He reasoned in his veto, “…the average distance to abortion providers varies from between five to seven miles, not an unreasonable distance,” deeming the legislation unnecessary. But Sen. Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) disagreed, and promised to pursue the legislation anyway. In October, she issued a statement<\/a>, saying:<\/p>\n

In the months and years ahead, I will continue fighting to make sure that college students have access to medication abortion on college campuses. I am hopeful that our incoming Legislature and Governor will agree that the right to choose isn\u2019t just a slogan, but rather a commitment to improving true access to abortion for students across California.<\/em><\/p>\n

And she didn’t wait long to make good on that promise. When Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom was on the campaign trail, the San Francisco Chronicle reported<\/a> on Newsom’s take on the bill Brown vetoed:<\/p>\n

[Newsom] said he would have signed a bill to require public universities in California to offer abortion pills on campus<\/a>. Brown vetoed the measure, saying such services are \u201cwidely available\u201d to students at off-campus clinics.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI would have supported that. I have long supported that,\u201d Newsom said. \u201cI subscribe to Planned Parenthood and NARAL\u2019s position on that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Abortion seems in little danger in a state like California, so the push to ensure all of California’s public university students have immediate access to the abortion pill seems like overkill. To say it’s a burden for a person to have to go five miles for something is hyperbole in its own right.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0These babies were saved by abortion pill reversal. So were hundreds of others.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Live Action was an active part of the fight against SB320 at the time<\/a>, making some of the following points about how the abortion pill regimen works and the risks women may face:<\/p>\n

California politicians and their abortion industry backers are lying to students by telling them that a medication abortion (RU-486) is like a heavy period that just flushes away a clump of undefined cells. The facts are:<\/em><\/p>\n