California Legislature Votes to Force Colleges to Dispense Abortion Pills

Calvin Freiburger : Sep 17, 2019
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"These Toilet Bowl Abortions would create havoc on campuses, as girls are sent to their dorm bathrooms to bleed and pass an aborted infant in a toilet, without medical supervision or assistance. Why would California schools want to expose their students and their universities to that kind of deadly risk?" -Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins

(Sacramento, CA) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The California Senate gave final approval Friday to legislation to force colleges and universities to provide chemical abortion pills and now awaits a likely signature by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom. (Image: Pixabay)

Last year, the legislature passed the so-called College Student Right to Access Act, which required "each public university student health center [to] offer abortion by medication techniques" and provided grants to cover the costs of any necessary equipment or training, "telehealth services" (also known as webcam abortions), and backup medical support.

Despite being reliably pro-abortion, Democrat former California governor Jerry Brown vetoed the bill on the grounds that it was "not necessary" because the "average distance to abortion providers in campus communities varies from five to seven miles, not an unreasonable distance." This year, pro-abortion lawmakers introduced a similar measure on the expectation that Brown's successor Newsom would be more receptive.

The current version of the bill declares abortion a "constitutional right and an integral part of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care," imposes the same mandate, and establishes a private fund that would allocate $200,000 per each campus under the University of California and the California State University systems to carry it out.

The Senate voted 28-11 to give the measure final approval on Friday, the Sacramento Bee reports... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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