Proposal would declare San Diego a ‘safe city for reproductive freedom’

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A number of San Diego Metropolis Councilmembers will submit a proposal on the council assembly Tuesday which, if handed, would declare San Diego a “protected metropolis for reproductive freedom and entry to abortion,” a transfer which its supporters consider would make town the primary within the nation to take action.

Councilman Stephen Whitburn authored the decision with Council President Professional Tem Monica Montgomery Steppe and Councilwomen Jennifer Campbell and Marni von Wilpert.

In related information, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors will take into account a proposal from Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer and Nora Vargas calling on the California so as to add the appropriate to decide on into California’s structure.

“It’s time for California to enshrine the appropriate to decide on in our state structure,” mentioned Lawson-Remer. “We can’t stand by as folks throughout our nation are stripped of our rights, and the progress so many have fought for is erased. We will construct a firewall within the California state structure and be a beacon of protected and authorized abortion entry.”

The U.S. Supreme Courtroom is predicted to difficulty a call on the Mississippi case Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group over the summer time. In violation of Roe v. Wade and the 1992 Deliberate Parenthood v. Casey case, Mississippi handed a legislation in 2018 prohibiting abortions after the fifteenth week of being pregnant. The Supreme Courtroom’s determination on the case might successfully overturn Roe v. Wade, which ensures abortion rights all through the U.S. till the fetus is viable, sometimes between 22 and 24 weeks.

In a draft ruling written by Justice Samuel Alito obtained by Politico, he opines, partly, “Roe ‘was egregiously improper from the beginning.’”

“We maintain that ‘Roe’ and ‘Casey’ have to be overruled,” the doc states, based on Politico. “It’s time to heed the Structure and return the problem of abortion to the folks’s elected representatives.”

Politico famous that the doc is simply a draft and may very well be modified dramatically, and even basically modified, earlier than it’s revealed and finalized this summer time.

Chief Justice John Roberts reiterated that time, saying the draft “doesn’t symbolize a call by the courtroom or the ultimate place of any member on the problems within the case.”

However information of the ruling sparked a flurry of concern from many Democratic California elected leaders.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, Meeting Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, and Senate President Professional Tempore Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, launched a press release that they might suggest “an modification to enshrine the appropriate to decide on in our state structure in order that there isn’t any doubt as to the appropriate to abortion on this state.”

“We all know we will not belief the Supreme Courtroom to guard reproductive rights, so California will construct a firewall round this proper in our state structure,” the assertion mentioned. “Ladies will stay protected right here.”

The proposed modification is unlikely to have a lot of a sensible impact due to current state legal guidelines.

The Los Angeles Metropolis Council handed a decision 11-0 on Friday calling for laws to codify the appropriate to protected abortions in California and all through the US. As soon as signed by Mayor Eric Garcetti, it will formalize town’s help for any proposed laws that might codify the appropriate to protected abortion into legislation and urge the state and federal governments to take quick motion to move the laws.