(Fox News) – California Democrats approved a bill last week that will force health clinics on college campuses to provide abortion pills. Senate Bill 24, or the “College Student Right to Access Act,” was approved in a 7-3 vote last Wednesday by the California State Senate Health Committee. Former Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed the same bill in October. He argued that abortion services were already “widely
available off-campus,” making the bill unnecessary. But state Sen. Connie Leyva, the bill’s chief sponsor, argued that “students should not have to travel off campus or miss class or work responsibilities in order to receive care that can easily be provided at a student health center.” At the time, Gavin Newsom, the former lieutenant governor who succeeded Brown as governor in January, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he “would have supported that [bill]” and subscribes to “Planned Parenthood and NARAL’s position on that.” READ MORE
