Gavin Newsom targets Arizona -- and Alabama -- over abortion restrictions
Source: Politico
04/21/2024 12:28 PM EDT
SACRAMENTO, California Gavin Newsom is doubling down on his campaign to blister red states over abortion access, unveiling a new TV ad set to air in Alabama Monday where lawmakers are trying to criminalize people who help minors travel out-of-state for reproductive care.
The Democratic California governor on Sunday also announced planned legislation of his own to make it easier for neighboring Arizonans to get abortions in the Golden State following the recent state Supreme Court decision there.
Newsoms latest ad, which debuted Sunday on MSNBCs Inside with Jen Psaki, is aimed at a proposed bill in Alabama that would make it a crime for people who help minors get an abortion without informing a parent or guardian. Its part of a multistate campaign Newsom is paying for through his Campaign for Democracy PAC, focused on so-called abortion travel bans and rolled out in late February, nearly two years after he first chided his own party for being on defense on the issue.
Newsoms ad follows his release of a similar spot aimed at Tennessee, where state lawmakers are moving to outlaw transporting a minor for an abortion. That ad showed a distressed young woman handcuffed to a hospital gurney and pleading for help. The Alabama ad, called Fugitive, is another dramatic rendering of what could happen if adults are punished for helping minors seek an abortion across state lines.
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twodogsbarking
(9,822 posts)Vote please.
Magoo48
(4,720 posts)Im always glad Im Californian, but if the worst should happen, Ill be especially grateful my family is on the left coast.
Warpy
(111,359 posts)and the woman spreadeagled and shackled is just how they like 'em.
They need to be slapped down as hard as we can manage, including by increasing the number of USSC justices to reflect the number of district courts.
Those pious, macho assholes can strut and swagger in their churches. They don't belong in government.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)as long as you can't get your abortion in Arizona. She said, all anyone who wants an abortion has to do is drive to California, New Mexico or Colorado.
go three hours that way, three hours that way, and youre going to be able to have an abortion.
So she's just NIMBY about legal and safe abortions.
LittleGirl
(8,291 posts)It is NOT 3 hours to the border in AZ. From Phx to the Mexican border maybe, depending on traffic, but to get to Colorado, NM or CA, it's much much further and longer drive. Damn her. Sheesh.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)of course abortion laws impact poor women the most, who probably can't afford airfare. So fuck her ...
LittleGirl
(8,291 posts)I never realized how expensive an abortion is so flying out of state is even more expensive than driving (sometimes).