Tue Nov 8, 2022 – 6:03 pm EST
SACRAMENTO, California (LifeSiteNews) – In an apparent attempt to galvanize the pro-abortion faithful in the final days before Tuesday’s midterm elections, Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom gave a posthumous pardon Friday to a woman who committed illegal abortions in the first half of the 20th century.
Fox News reported that Newsom pardoned Laura Miner, who in 1949 was convicted of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion, which she did from 1934 to 1948, long before California legalized abortion in 1967 and the U.S. Supreme Court forced all 50 states to allow it in Roe v. Wade.
Miner, who served 19 months in jail and 27 months on parole, passed away in 1976 but not before declaring her “conscience is clear” because her killing of unwanted babies “helped humanity.”
With Roe having been overturned this year, Newsom said that Miner was “a powerful reminder of the generations of people who fought for reproductive freedom in this country, and the risks that so many Americans now face in a post-Roe world.”
Californians were voting in Tuesday’s midterm elections on a ballot initiative to add a “fundamental right to choose to
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