California Gov. Gavin Newsom says in new, multi-state billboards that people faced with abortion bans can go to his state to get the procedure legally.
A handful of states, including Texas, now have abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest. Using billboards in states with some of the most restrictive abortion laws, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is telling residents how they can get the procedure regardless of where they live.“Just launched billboards in 7 of the most restrictive anti-abortion states that explain how women can access care – no matter where they live,” Newsom said in a Twitter post Thursday.
The California governor, who is up for reelection in November, paid for the billboards with campaign money and had them displayed in Texas, Indiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota and Oklahoma. Newsom's social media team made sure the governors of each state knew about the billboards by tagging them on Twitter. “@GregAbbott_TX this will be launching in your state today,” Newsom wrote in a post showing an image of one of the billboards. The billboards going up in Texas will read: “Texas doesn’t own your body. You do.” Those going up in other states say virtually the same thing, and they all direct people to the website abortion.ca.gov, which was launched earlier this week.
The website gives people information that should help them get an abortion regardless of where they live. But it essentially tells people – whether they’re a legal adult or not, and regardless of immigration status – to travel to California for an abortion if the procedure is illegal in their home state.
Texas Senate Bill 8, which went into effect last September, bans abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. The law also lets people sue abortion providers or anyone who helps a person get an abortion in Texas after this stage of the pregnancy. — the ruling that made abortion a constitutional right — even more anti-abortion laws went into effect, including one in Texas that makes performing an abortion a felony. In Texas, the crime is punishable by up to life in prison.On Tuesday, Sen.
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