California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta warned there can be “authorized motion” in opposition to the Temecula Metropolis Council if it passes an abortion ban within the metropolis in an try and override state legislation.
Bonta’s workplace despatched a letter to the council Friday, stating that native laws that goes in opposition to state legislation is taken into account “void.”
“The California Legislature and the California Supreme Court docket have declared again and again that California is a reproductive freedom state and that Californians have a proper to entry abortion,” the letter learn. “In 1981, the California Supreme Court docket held that ‘all ladies on this state wealthy and poor alike possess a basic constitutional proper to decide on whether or not or to not bear a baby.’”
The letter pressured that Bonta “takes significantly his obligation to guard Californians’ proper to reproductive freedom” and received’t “hesitate to take authorized motion ought to a neighborhood regulation battle with California state legislation.”
Councilwoman Jessica Alexander, the director of Temecula’s Start Alternative Middle who proposed earlier this month a decision barring abortions, requested the council to debate the decision at Tuesday’s Metropolis Council assembly.
“Let Temecula be often known as a secure haven, not as an abortion sanctuary. Let the world know that Temecula stands for all times from womb to tomb,” Alexander stated in the course of the Sept. 13 assembly.
A decision “declaring Temecula a sanctuary metropolis for Temecula’s unborn” is on the agenda for Tuesday evening’s assembly, however it can contain a dialogue on whether or not to incorporate the proposal on a future Metropolis Council agenda.
State lawmakers have ready within the final 12 months for the potential fallout of Roe vs. Wade being overturned by fortifying California’s abortion protections and creating a plan for the state to develop into a sanctuary for these denied abortion providers in different states.
California voters will even determine Nov. 8 on Proposition 1, an modification to the state’s Structure guaranteeing the correct to abortion and contraception. A UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Research ballot launched final month confirmed 7 in 10 California voters assist the constitutional modification.
A related antiabortion decision was proposed final month by San Clemente Metropolis Councilman Steve Knoblock, however the council voted 3 to 1 to withdraw the proposal from an upcoming assembly’s agenda.
Alexander stated over the last Temecula Metropolis Council assembly that she opposes Meeting Invoice 1666, which was signed into legislation in June and created legal responsibility protections for California abortion suppliers who present care to sufferers touring from areas the place abortion is banned or entry has been restricted.
She additionally opposes Meeting Invoice 2223, which might bar a coroner from holding an inquest after a fetal demise, together with in instances by which a stillbirth was believed to have been brought on by medication. It was handed and despatched to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his approval two weeks in the past.
Members of Temecula’s Start Alternative Middle spoke out in opposition to abortion over the last council assembly.
“We’re going to be bringing residents from different states, presumably even Canada and Mexico, into California and our taxpayer {dollars} are going to pay for the slaughter of harmless human beings that we didn’t say we needed,” stated Janette Chun, chief govt of Start Alternative.
