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SACRAMENTO, California (LifeSiteNews) — A proposed amendment to California’s state constitution would enshrine the abortion up to the moment of birth as a “fundamental right” in the Golden State.
Senate Constitutional Amendment (SCA) 10 was passed by the State Assembly in a 58-16 vote in late June, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court returned the right to regulate abortion back to the states by overturning Roe v. Wade.
The proposed amendment would exceed existing California law under the Reproductive Privacy Act, which protects “a person’s right to choose or obtain an abortion before viability of the fetus.”
The new proposal would enshrine unlimited abortion access in the state constitution by declaring that “[t]he state shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives,” regardless of an unborn child’s stage of
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