California state legislators will vote Tuesday on whether or not the abortion law in the Golden State should be expanded to allow nurses to do surgical abortions, even though licensed physicians kill and injure women in abortions.
Earlier this month, the Assembly Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection voted for the bill, which comes after the state took a first step next year and putting women’s health at risk by allowing non-doctors to perform surgical abortions — even though women have been killed and injured in abortions even when performed by licensed physicians.
The California Pro-Life Council emailed LifeNews, asking pro-life advocates to contact Assembly members to urge a no vote:
Abortion expansion bill will be voted on by the Assembly Committee on Health, Tuesday, 4/23/2013. AB 154 expands abortion allowing nurses and midwives to perform this procedure. Your voice in opposition to this bill is critical. AB 154 is not safe for women’s health. This law would put women’s health at risk by allowing non-physicians to perform abortions. Abortion is not a “critical public health issue” necessitating government intervention as proponents claim.
It is dedicated to expanding the pool of abortionists well beyond those who are trained to be surgeons, it would be a Planned Parenthood financial boon as they could hire many more of the newly-defined ‘abortionists’ at greatly reduced costs to them, but greater risks to mothers.
Also, the Capitol Resource Institute is urging a no vote and released a list of members to contact:
AB 154 expands abortion allowing nurses and midwives to perform this procedure. Your voice in opposition to this bill is critical. AB 154 is not safe for women’s health. This law would put women’s health at risk by allowing non-physicians to perform abortions. Abortion is not a “critical public health issue” necessitating government intervention as proponents claim.
We urge you to contact the committee members listed below and ask them to vote “NO” on AB 154.
Assemblymember Richard Pan (Chair)
916-319-2009 Fax: 916-319-2109Assemblymember Dan Logue (Vice Chair)
916-319-2003 Fax: 916-319-2103Assemblymember Tom Ammiano
916-319-2017 Fax: 916-319-2117Assemblymember Toni Atkins
916-319-2078 Fax: 916-319-2178Assemblymember Susan Bonilla
916-319-2014 Fax: 916-319-211Assemblymember Rob Bonta
916-319-2018 Fax: 916-319-2118Assemblymember Wesley Chesbro
916-319-2002 Fax: 916-319-2102Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez
916-319-2051 Fax: 916-319-2151Assemblymember Roger Hernández
916-319-2048 Fax: 916-319-2148Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal
916-319-2070 Fax: 916-319-2170Assemblymember Brian Maienschein
916-319-2077 Fax: 916-319-2177Assemblymember Allan Mansoor
916-319-2074 Fax: 916-319-2174Assemblymember Holly Mitchell
916-319-2054 Fax: 916-319-2154Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian
916-319-2046 Fax: 916-319-2146Assemblymember Brian Nestande
916-319-2042 Fax: 916-319-214Assemblymember V. Manuel
916-319-2056 Fax: 916-319-2156Assemblymember Donald Wagner
916-319-2068 Fax: 916-319-2168Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski
916-319-2025 Fax: 916-319-2125Assemblymember Scott Wilk
916-319-2038 Fax: 916-319-2138
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Last year, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that makes it so nurses in California can do abortions, even though they do not have a valid medical license certifying them as a physician. Brown, a Democrat, visited a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood abortion clinic to sign another bill related to birth control and he also signed the abortion measure into law.
Senate Bill 623, by Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, was supported by Planned Parenthood and opposed by pro-life groups. Introduced by Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego), it extended a program run by the University of California, San Francisco, in which nurse practitioners, midwives and physicians assistants are trained to perform abortions.
The last days of the California legislative session saw abortion backers fight to expand abortion, while ignoring the severe economic crisis California continues to face. Lawmakers took an unrelated book and inserted language in it from a failed measure to allow nurses to do abortions.
Kehoe claimed that the bill was necessary to fill gaps in the availability of abortion caused by the shortage of doctors in parts of the state. The bill went through three attempts before passage. Ms. Kehoe “gutted and amended” the bill after its introduction, which raised some protest from other members of the Senate. This spring, a Senate committee rejected an attempt to pass a broader bill allowing non-physicians to perform abortions. In the end, a narrower version of the bill was passed. Rather than opening abortion to non-physicians generally, the bill focuses on extending a U.C. San Francisco program training physicians assistants and others to perform first trimester abortions.
The new measure, AB 154, seeks to expand that effort.
ACTION: Go to https://assembly.ca.gov/ to find your members to call and email to urge a NO vote on the bill.
