California attorney general warns Temecula not to pass abortion ban

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta warned there will likely be “authorized motion” towards the Temecula Metropolis Council if it passes an abortion ban within the metropolis in an try to override state legislation.

Bonta’s workplace despatched a letter to the council Friday, stating that native laws that goes towards 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 girls on this state wealthy and poor alike possess a elementary constitutional proper to decide on whether or not or to not bear a baby.’”

The letter harassed that Bonta “takes critically 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 Beginning Alternative Heart 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 referred to as a secure haven, not as an abortion sanctuary. Let the world know that Temecula stands for all times from womb to tomb,” Alexander mentioned 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 should 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 growing a plan for the state to grow to be a sanctuary for these denied abortion companies in different states.

California voters can even resolve Nov. 8 on Proposition 1, an modification to the state’s Structure guaranteeing the suitable to abortion and contraception. A UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Research ballot launched final month confirmed 7 in 10 California voters help the constitutional modification.

An identical 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 mentioned 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 dying, together with in circumstances during 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 Beginning Alternative Heart spoke out towards 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,” mentioned Janette Chun, chief govt of Beginning Alternative.