Defiant state leaders stood ready Tuesday to protect residents and nonresidents alike from any federal rollbacks of abortion rights.
which would include abortions among the services nurse practitioners can perform without the oversight of a doctor — an effort sparked by reports that more than 40% of California counties do not have clinics that provide abortions.
Those challenges could grow if lawmakers make good on their promise to open California’s doors to those in other states seeking help. As many as 1.4 million women could travel to California every year seeking abortion care — an increase of almost 3,000% — if other states ban the procedure, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports reproductive health and abortion rights.
Other proposals regarding funding include a bill that would create a state-administered fund for abortions that encourages private-sector donations, “so that the state funds don’t have to provide alone for this influx,” state Sen. Nancy Skinner , the author of Senate Bill 1142, said Tuesday. Even before Monday’s leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion, California abortion clinics were seeing an influx of patients from Texas, according to Jodi Hicks, chief executive and president of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California.
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