Gavin Newsom targets Arizona -- and Alabama -- over abortion restrictions [View all]

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.

Newsom’s latest ad, which debuted Sunday on MSNBC’s “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. It’s 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.

Newsom’s 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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