Californians will decide in November whether to lock the right to abortion into the state constitution. Voting “yes” on Proposition1, will also lock in a right that has gotten less attention: the right to birth control.
this year, abortion opponents introduced legislation that would restrict or ban abortion, and would also apply to emergency contraception.
“It just allows the pro-abort legislators to trumpet and give them talking points about how they’re doing something about the overturn of,” she said. “It is political virtue signaling. I don’t think it does much of anything else.” But California’s reputation as a haven for contraceptive availability may not be fully warranted, said Dima Qato, an associate professor at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy. In herof contraceptive access in Los Angeles County, which has some of the highest rates of teen and unintended pregnancy in the country, Qato found that only 10% of pharmacies surveyed offered pharmacist-prescribed birth control.
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