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‘Going on the offense’: How Gavin Newsom is taking the abortion fight to other states
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‘Going on the offense’: How Gavin Newsom is taking the abortion fight to other states
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When the U.S. Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022 with its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a national standard for the legality or illegality of abortion was removed — and abortion became a series of legislative battles in 50 different states. Abortion became illegal or greatly restricted in a long list of red states, while blue states moved to codify their protections of abortion rights. And in swing states like Pennsylvania, Arizona and Virginia, abortion’s legal status could go either way — as Democratic gubernatorial candidates, from incumbent Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan to Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, have been emphasizing.
In deep blue California, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has been aggressively promoting Proposition 1 — a ballot measure that, journalist Christopher Cadelago notes in Politico, “would enshrine the right to abortion and contraceptives in the state constitution.” Newsom, according to Cadelago, is “spending $2.5 million over the next two weeks” to promote the measure, which will appear on the California ballot in November.
Newsom told Politico, “The idea that we are proactively codifying statute — that we are going on the offense — is something from my perspective to celebrate and to highlight and not just dial-in and take for granted.”
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Cadelago, in an article published by Politico on October 10, stresses that Newsom isn’t just focusing on abortion rights in California — he is taking the abortion fight to other states as well, including some states where Democrats have been struggling in statewide races: Florida and Texas.
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