Editorial: It's time to scrap California's ineffective travel ban to anti-LGBTQ states (via latimesopinion )
scholars at California’s public universities from attending academic gatherings or from conducting research in states on the prohibited travel list unless they can figure out workarounds. Students from public universities have to get private donations to compete in athletic games and academic competitions in those 23 states.. They had to use political donations to attend the National Conference of State Legislatures when the association met in Tennessee a few years back.
living in states that had passed abortion restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade. Atkins said the state could pay for pregnant women to travel to California for an abortion — but not their trip home if those women live in states on the travel ban list. That’s ridiculous, and so is maintaining a law that does more harm to California and Californians than its intended targets. California’s troublesome travel ban has to go.
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