{"id":249809,"date":"2021-07-28T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=249809"},"modified":"2021-07-27T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T21:08:49","slug":"feminist-california-womens-prison-abortions-transgender-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/feminist-california-womens-prison-abortions-transgender-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist group: California women’s prison promotes abortions following housing of transgender inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to a <\/span>new report<\/span><\/a> from the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), the Central California Women’s Facility has added new pregnancy “resources” to its medical clinics \u2014 including information on how to obtain abortions. WoLF says women incarcerated at the facility have been put into an unacceptable situation resulting from the passage of legislation allowing “transgender, intersex and nonbinary inmates the right, regardless of anatomy, to choose whether to be housed in a male or female prison,” <\/span>according<\/span><\/a> to the Los Angeles Times.<\/span><\/p>\n

WoLF states, “The new resources are a tacit admission by officials that women should expect to be raped when housed in prison with men, where all sex is considered non-consensual by default within the system.”\u00a0As reported by the LA Times:<\/p>\n

… [A]t the Central California Women\u2019s Facility in Chowchilla, there\u2019s fear. Inmates say guards have warned them that \u201cmen are coming\u201d and to expect sexual violence.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThat if we think it\u2019s bad now, be prepared for the worst. That it\u2019s going to be off the hook, it\u2019s going to be jumping,\u201d Tomiekia Johnson, 41, said staffers have told her. \u201cThey say we\u2019re going to need a facility that\u2019s going to be like a maternity ward. They say we\u2019re going to have an inmate program where inmates become nannies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The full text<\/a> of a poster displayed in the prison featuring the pregnancy options was provided to WoLF. It explains that inmates will be able to obtain Plan B emergency contraception (a potential abortifacient<\/a>) and “pregnancy termination” if they are currently pregnant or “become pregnant” while housed in the prison.<\/p>\n