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 womans 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. |