Another proposes a California Reproductive Health Service Corps, to provide health care, including abortion, in underserved communities. One bill prohibits investigating, prosecuting, or incarcerating anyone in California for terminating or losing a pregnancy. Right now, lawmakers are considering a 13-bill package based on recommendations in a report from the California Future of Abortion Council.
“We’ve built an infrastructure, particularly for abortion, that is flexible and able to expand, that is intentionally aware of hospital partners, aware of travel hubs, aware of the politics and the communities where we’re located,” she says.Ĭalifornia’s legislature is leading a relatively bold push to protect reproductive rights. In addition to its resources for local communities, clinics in Los Angeles are designed to accommodate traveling patients. “We’ve long known that we play an important role in national dynamics around sexual and reproductive health care,” says Dunlap. She expects that number to double next year, and to continue to soar in the next five years. Los Angeles, in particular, receives about 100 patients from out of state per month, according to Dunlap. Still, California is a critical destination for out-of-state patients who need abortions, because of the state’s financial aid and reputation for access. And unlike North Carolina, most of California’s neighboring states will retain access. California’s government has pledged financial resources and legal protections for people who need reproductive care. The state’s only restriction is on abortions after viability (when the fetus could survive outside of the womb), except when the patient’s life or health are at risk. In some ways, California is North Carolina’s opposite. Republicans who support restricting abortion outnumber Democrats in the state legislature, and while North Carolina’s governor, a Democrat, has thus far vetoed bills to further restrict access, a Republican governor, or future attempts to redraw district boundaries, may give Republicans the edge to reach a veto-proof majority. Further limitations may be on the horizon.
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