Mon Sep 27, 2021 – 5:03 pm EDTMon Sep 27, 2021 – 5:22 pm EDT
SACRAMENTO (LifeSiteNews) — California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two radical new pro-abortion bills Wednesday, dramatically extending abortion safeguards in California in direct response to Texas’ recent sweeping ban on nearly all abortions.
“California has been a leader in protecting access to sexual and reproductive rights, but as we’ve seen recently with unprecedented attacks on these rights, we can and must do more,” Newsom said in a statement.
One of the bills will make it easier for minors in California to hide abortions and transgender procedures from their parents.
The second bill will slap new restrictions and penalties on pro-life activists in the Golden State who engage in protests outside abortion clinics.
Newsom signed the bills, Assembly Bill 1184 and Assembly Bill 1356, during a virtual press conference September 22.
Making oblique reference to Texas’ life-saving Heartbeat Act which bans most abortions in the Lone Star State, Newsom said “these are dark days,” and promised to make sure California is a “reproductive freedom state.”
Newsom delivered on his promise to further enshrine abortion “rights” in California with the two bills signed
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