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LA council leaders introduce resolution backing abortion rights By City News Service
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ouncil President Nury Martinez and Council President Pro Tempore Mitch O’Farrell introduced a resolution Tuesday to support Proposition 1, a November ballot initiative that would estab-
women the equality we all deserve,” Martinez said. “Californians are unwilling to treat women as less than, and here in Los Angeles, we have been consistent in our commitment to protecting the right to safe and legal
"No one should be forced to care for a child because their state’s legislators want to push personal beliefs onto women in their state." lish a right to reproductive freedom — including the right to an abortion — in the state constitution. The resolution was seconded by Councilwoman Heather Hutt. Martinez, O’Farrell and Hutt held a news briefing Tuesday along with Celinda Vázquez, executive director of the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project Los Angeles County, at City Hall. “Abortion must be protected in this country and failing to do so denies
abortion. No one should be forced to care for a child because their state’s legislators want to push personal beliefs onto women in their state.” The ballot initiative was a response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which had established the federal right to an abortion for nearly 50 years. “This is more than a war against women and bodily autonomy,” O’Farrell said. “They’re coming after us next. In the LGBTQ+
community, we have fought for decades and won marriage equality and personal privacy rights.” If Proposition 1 passes, California may become the first state to explicitly protect the right to an abortion in its constitution. The rebuttal to the argument in favor of Proposition 1 in the Official Voter Information Guide distributed to voters by the Secretary of State's Office declares that "Proposition 1 is not needed to protect abortion rights but it will cost California taxpayers millions" through the increased number of abortion seekers from other states coming to California. Last week, a proposed law that would prohibit pregnancy service centers from misleading people about reproductive health services, including abortion, with tactics such as false advertising was moved along by the Arts, Parks, Health, Education and Neighborhoods Committee and is expected to come before the council soon.
Law targeting pregnancy service centers slated to come before LA council By City News Service
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proposed law that would prohibit pregnancy service centers from misleading people about reproductive health services, including abortion, with tactics such as false advertising is expected to come before the Los Angeles City
Council soon after it was moved along by a council committee Tuesday. The ordinance, proposed by City Attorney Mike Feuer, was forwarded to the council as communication from Councilman John Lee, chair of the Arts, Parks, Health,
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Education and Neighborhoods Committee. Councilman Mike Bonin, the committee’s other member, was absent, so the committee could not take a formal vote on the item. But Lee sought to put the item up for council consideration
given the urgency of the proposal. The proposed ordinance, which Feuer announced in early August, would take effect immediately if passed. It would be enforced by Feuer’s office, with fines of $10,000 per violation. It
would also allow victims to sue for compensation if they believe they have been misled. “If someone goes to a center thinking that those services are offered, and they’re not, they’ve lost valuable time in this critical
moment,” Feuer said at the committee meeting. “If someone goes to one of these centers and is pressured into changing their mind, altering their See Pregnancy Page 2