Meeting Invoice 1666 subsequent heads to the table of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who’s supportive of abortion rights. It will take impact in an instant together with his signature.
The measure would make it in order that “every other state’s regulation authorizing a civil motion in opposition to an individual or entity that receives or seeks, plays or induces, or aids or abets the efficiency of an abortion, or who makes an attempt or intends to interact in the ones movements” is opposite to California public coverage, and is unenforceable via California courts.
AB 1666 “creates the protections to make California a felony sanctuary for reproductive selection,” the invoice’s Democratic sponsor Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan mentioned in a listening to previous this month.
AB 1666 is a part of a slate of legislative proposals from the California Long run of Abortion Council, a coalition that incorporates abortion rights advocacy teams.
“Those precautions and protections are a key first step as California prepares for a post-Roe global, and sadly important given the greater hostility and frequency of abortion bans in different states in the hunt for to focus on sufferers and suppliers,” Molly Robson, the legislative director for Deliberate Parenthood Associates of California, mentioned in a remark.
