Legislature California Legislation

2001-2002 Session

 

 

 

The California legislature has completed its two-year 2001-2002 Legislative Session.

Governor Davis signed several pro-abortion bills throughout the legislative session. To quote the California Pro-Life Council, "Governor Davis is undoubtedly the most pro-abortion governor California has ever had."

The following summaries have been taken from the California State Legislature's website for tracking legislative information. These bills were introduced in the legislative year 2002. Please note that the anti-life bills were either sponsored by or supported by Planned Parenthood Federation, as documented by the California State Legislature in the bill analyses on each. PPF claims to be a mainstream organization whose focus is not aborting the unborn. Their legislative positions, however, provide an agenda quite obviously different.

You can search these bills online by clicking here and going to the 2001-2002 Session


Pro-Life Bill

AB 2623 - Opposed by Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California (includes Yuba City)
This bill (which did not succeed) would have established a cause of action for the loss of an unborn child due to vehicular manslaughter.


Anti-Life Agenda

SB 1301 - Sponsored by Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (includes Yuba City)
This new law replaces the Therapeutic Abortion Act of 1967 with the “Reproductive Privacy Act.” It allows
non-physicians to perform “nonsurgical” abortions, i.e., chemical abortions where non-physician staff dispense medications to produce abortions. This includes non-surgical PPF facilities which dispense medications for birth control and STD treatment. This new law also requires that the state may not deny or interfere with a woman’s right to choose or obtain an abortion prior to viability of the fetus....


SJR 51 - Supported by Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California (includes Yuba City)
This resolution requests President Bush and the U. S. Congress to restore the $34 million in funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recently denied. These funds are used to promote abortion in third world countries.


AB 797 - Supported by Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California (includes Yuba City)
This new law when it was just a bill originally provided educational support for foster care children when it passed the Assembly. But it was gutted and amended to become a special protection bill just for abortion providers, when requests are made for public records on reproductive health care services providers.


AB 1826 - Supported by Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California (includes Yuba City)
This bill (which didn't pass) would have required health care plans to include coverage for in vitro-fertilization, with the so-called "excess" embryos being
either discarded or exploited for medical research. Abortion is often recommended for babies presenting with disabilities, and is sometimes a part of the contract for these in-vitro fertilizations. Also mothers who have conceived more than two babies in the same impregnated in-vitro fertilization pregnancy are often pressured into “reduction abortions.” In these cases “excess” babies are deliberately killed with a lethal injection into their hearts.


AB 2136 - Supported by Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California (includes Yuba City)
This bill which was passed by the legislature and enrolled to become new law increases and/or facilitates school-based health services through a State School Health Advisory Council, in which Planned Parenthood seeks inclusion. The Governor did later veto this bill.


AB 2194 - Sponsored by Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (includes Yuba City)
This new law requires all residency programs in obstetrics and gynecology to include training in the performance of an abortion by incorporating into state law the requirements of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, a private agency, which develops its own procedures. Previously the law allowed for protection for health care professionals and students from having to be involved in abortions if they filed a letter expressing their objections to participating in abortions.


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You can access bill text, committee analyses, and votes on these bills, and all others, on the Assembly or Senate Websites-- www.assembly.ca.gov or www.sen.ca.gov. Click on “Legislation,” and select the 2002 Session, then insert the bill number.

To register your support or disapproval with your assembly member or state senator on any of the bills, you can write to (State Capitol, Sacramento, Ca 95814), or call, or FAX them. Phone calls and faxes receive more attention than e-mails, but if you elect to use e-mail, state your "Support of" or "Oppose to" in the Subject Line along with the "Bill Number" and Bill "Subject Title" as noted below. You can obtain the assembly member's or state senator's phone, fax or e-mail address through the following link: www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html

You can also follow the progress of bills by entering the bill's number in the "keyword" space at the Legislative Analyst's Office at the internet address of http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html. By subscribing to any individual bill you can also be provided an e-mail update.


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