Newsom Signs Law Allowing Arizona Doctors to Perform Abortions in California
I wonder what California would be like if Newsom cared about the issues affecting Californians as much as he does about the ability to murder unborn human beings.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is obsessed with abortion.
Newsom’s latest law allows Arizona doctors to perform abortions in California because the Arizona Supreme Court allowed an old to go into effect, making it a felony for anyone who “provides, supplies or administers to a pregnant woman, or procures such woman to take any medicine, drugs or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless it is necessary to save her life.”
The person faces 2 to 5 years in prison.
This bill, through November 30, 2024, would authorize a physician licensed to practice medicine in Arizona who meets certain requirements to practice medicine in California for the purpose of providing abortions and abortion-related care to patients who are Arizona residents traveling from Arizona, upon application for registration with the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, as applicable. The bill would prohibit the physician from providing care or consultation for other purposes or to other patients, except under specified circumstances. The bill would require an Arizona physician, before practicing in California, to submit specified information to the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, as applicable, including, among other information, written verification from the Arizona Medical Board or the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners in Medicine and Surgery, or documentation printed from an online licensing system, that the physician’s Arizona license to practice medicine is in good standing and confers on the physician the authority to practice abortions and abortion-related care. The bill would require the applicant to provide an affidavit attesting that, among other things, the applicant meets all of the requirements for registration, as specified, and would make it a misdemeanor for a person to provide false information. The bill would limit the information the California boards are required to disclose about a registrant. The bill would deem a physician registered pursuant to the bill’s provisions a licensee of the applicable board, would authorize the applicable board to take enforcement against a person registered pursuant to the bill’s provisions, and would prohibit the applicable boards from collecting any fees for registration. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would repeal the bill’s provisions on January 1, 2025.
“Arizona Republicans tried to turn back the clock to 1864 to impose a near-total abortion ban across their state. We refuse to stand by and acquiesce to their oppressive and dangerous attacks on women.
“I’m grateful for the California Legislative Women’s Caucus and all our partners for moving quickly to provide this backstop. California stands ready to protect reproductive freedom.”
I wonder what California would be like if Newsom cared about the issues affecting Californians as much as he does about the ability to murder unborn human beings.
It’s disturbing how much he concentrates on abortion. Newsom spends so much time and effort going after other states that have restricted abortion.
Last September, California issued a taxpayer-funded website detailing abortion services and resources.
The state allows anyone under 18 from the state or any other state to get an abortion.
Newsom wants the Democrats to make abortion the #1 issue. I know VP Kamala Harris has been trying to do that.
Newsom tried to be clever with an ad attacking Alabama Republicans who opposed a bill allowing women to seek abortions out of state.
Well, guess what? Newsom lied about the bill. But two female independent filmmakers claimed he plagiarized their 10-minute film, which is exactly like his ad.
What a loser.
Here are a few more instances of Newsom doing more to promote abortion than taking care of his state:
- Newsom Supporters’ Ad Claims TN Wants to Hold Women Seeking Out of State Abortions ‘Hostage’
- Pelosi Slams Gov. Newsom for Saying Democratic Party ‘Has Gone Missing’ in Abortion Fight
- California Gov. Newsom to Push Gun Legislation Modeled on Texas Abortion Law
- CA Governor Gavin Newsom Signs Bill Requiring Abortion Pill Access on Public College Campuses
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Not sure how CA has the power to regulate medial procedures in AZ. But if Newsome can’t understand when a life is conceived it’s understandable that he has no understanding of the limits of the jurisdictional power of his state.
Huh? It doesn’t, and it doesn’t pretend to. What are you talking about? Did you bother reading the post before replying?!
I guess I should concede that I may, in haste, have misinterpreted the scope of the CA law. But since we’re talking about the vile practice of abortion and the vile shits who support it, I’ll say who cares. The law is garbage as is the governor and anyone who advocates for abortion.
Who cares is any honest person. Truth and falsity matter.
Also anyone who cares about federalism. Arizona can make any constitutional law within its borders, but so can California.
The truth is that elective abortion is a vile obscene practice in which a mother knowingly takes the life of her unborn child (and some democrats want to push it to pure infanticide after birth). There is no honor in defending this law which is an obscenity under any construction, whether constitutional or not.
Add the full faith a credit clause to the list of things that Milhouse doesn’t undertsand.
It’s you who clearly doesn’t understand it. If the full faith and credit clause has any application here at all it works for California, not against it. What California does with its medical licensing laws is none of Arizona’s business. Arizona’s laws stop at its border, and it may not prevent anyone from going to California and taking advantage of its laws.
They’re not regulating medical procedures in AZ.
A doctor coming from another state can’t practice in CA until he or she obtains a license from CA medical board. This bill is saying that if you’re a doctor in AZ they’ll give you permission to practice specifically for the purpose of performing abortions provided you’re licensed in AZ in good standing, can prove you have the training or experience in performing abortions (ie. an ophthalmologist need not apply), can find a facility you can use since you won’t have time to set up your own, and only perform abortions on patients coming from AZ.
Since the law’s duration is so short, not only are they going to streamline the process and not require these doctors to jump through all the usual hoops, they won’t have to pay any registration fees, and they will get moved to the front of the line because the bill requires a license to be issued within 5 business days.
As well, any actions a doctor takes while in CA will be under the purview of the CA medical board, so if something goes wrong it’ll be the CA board dealing with any discipline, not the AZ medical board.
I assume that now there will be CA facilities advertising to AZ doctors that they’re available for them, and once there are doctors who get the CA registration facilities will be advertising that they can be used by AZ residents. Although I wonder if CA will make public how many doctors take advantage of this.
“and only perform abortions on patients coming from AZ”
That aspect sounds legally confusing and potential to be court challenged.
I don’t see how. It seems pretty straightforward.
What I don’t get is why anyone would take advantage of this. If a woman has decided to travel to CA to have her baby killed, why wouldn’t she just go to an existing CA doctor? Why would she bring an AZ doctor with her? It seems to me like this bill is pure virtue signalling, and isn’t intended to have any practical effect.
The doctors will get CME credits and a business deduction…. No not continuing medical education but continuing medical extermination. Got to keep sharp!
Wasn’t the 1860’s ban recently eliminated in recent law passage by the Arizona legislature?
Yeah, ok. Who gives an F. I still oppose this pro infanticide crap on principle.
Of course. So do almost all of us. But it is what it is. California’s voters love baby-slaughter and want more of it, and under the constitution they’re entitled to do this.
[A]ny actions a doctor takes while in CA will be under the purview of the CA medical board, so if something goes wrong it’ll be the CA board dealing with any discipline, not the AZ medical board.
Good luck with that in the People’s Democratic Republic of California! According to the High Priests of the Fundamentalist Church of A Woman’s Right To Choose ALL abortion is sacred in ALL cases – no exceptions,
This new law is nothing more than Dear Leader Newsom publicly flipping off the Deplorables, so what reason would the CA medical board have to spoil the party by bringing in oversight, medical ethics or the law? Far easier to ignore a botched abortion, or figure out a way to blame Arizona Republicans than take responsibility for an idiotic PR stunt gone bad.
AZ has been working on updating its own law. CA lefties need to stop trying to force their values on other states.
Ritual human sacrifice poles well among women voters, so Gavin sacrifices the weakest among us – the unborn.
They’re not forcing their values on other states, at least in this instance. They would love to if they could, but this isn’t an example of that.
Wow, those Arizona docs must have mighty long forceps.
Huh? The law allows them to perform abortions in California on patients who are also in California but are residents of Arizona.
Is it autism? Just wondering
Is what? Your bizarre fantasy of a doctor standing in AZ and performing an abortion in CA?!
Newsom is establishing woman-friendly as the Democrat brand, and Republican as woman-unfriendly. Which it in fact is.
No, he’s establishing murder of innocent babies
Lots of fertilized eggs fail to implant and take a 6 inch life journey into the toilet. Are those babies? Is God being careless?
YOU just said it
they “fail to implant” so they are not babies
AND THEREFOR YOU ADMIT THAT WHEN THOSE EGGS DO “IMPLANT”
THAT AT THAT MOMENT THE LIFE HAS STARTED
I thought it was supposed to be at conception. That’s where the DNA happens. What changes at implantation?
My own position is that you learn to be a human, but it’s a good idea to reinforce taking care of what’s cute. So whenever you can portray a fetus as cute would be a good place to put the line. Good place = stable with respect to majority vote.
Destroycommunism obviously doesn’t agree with the Catholic position. Perhaps s/he is Mormon? As I understand it the LDS Church teaches that personhood begins at implantation, which is why it’s OK with IVF and with experiments in embryology.
No, God isn’t being careless, but that’s how He runs His world. Most babies don’t survive. No different from how it used to be even with babies who were born. And ultimately none of us survive. We all live exactly as long as His plan calls for. From His point of view what’s the difference between ending one of His creatures’ lives after 100 years, 100 months, 100 days, or 100 seconds?
Hey, where do those guilty babies hang and what should their punishment be?
Newsom wants to force other states to conform to CA. Newsom only believes in the idea of states rights when that aligns with his so called “CA Values”. Rinse repeat.
How so? How does this force any state to do anything it doesn’t want to do?
other than you enjoying your status as contrarian hero you fail to admit what the dems themselves admit
that they will allow women abusing males to have no bail set etc etc
that they will allow men to comfortably use womens locker rooms etc
start with that
The only people screaming for abortion are those who have not been aborted.
And illegal immigrant friendly, and criminal friendly, and dictatorship friendly. How is supporting Hamas “women friendly”?
ghouls
“Abortion care”
Unless your an infant
It’s extremely profitable procedure for the executioners,, very little overhead
The left is milking this, as usual,, for alll its worth to keep the chaos going
each state would have already had special elections to vote on this and the people would in most cases allowed abortions with some restrictions ,,again,
in most states/cases
the gop has pretended and so the tax payers pay for anyone who doesnt pay for it themselves
ALLLLL WOMENS LIVES ARE CONSIDERED IN DANGER during this and 99% of allll medical procedures
AGAIN,, THE LEFT IS MILKING THIS DRAMA like they always do
HYSTERIA = MSM COVERAGE
AND MSM COVERAGE = HYSTERIA
btw
ABORTION ISSSS the #1 issue with the dems
and
with the gop
the gop for decades has railed the troops with the abortion issue
all the while failing over and over by allowing the welfare state to grow
AND THE WELFARE STATE AND ABORTION ARE ONE IN THE SAME
Let the individual kill the child, and let them face judgement alone. It sounds horrible, but so be it. No one but yourself can legislate morality.
So why draw the line at birth? Why not let anyone kill anyone and face judgment alone? Ditto for robbery and rape.
Especially those that graduated from UCLA med school. They will perform abortions on men. Ooops!
Translation: “California stands ready to protect the ability to murder the defenseless unborn.”
Newsom is all in on infanticide.
Every time you hear someone from California complain about something in California, just respond with, “But the freedom of Arizona residents to perform abortions in California is fully protected! Now that’s what good government looks like!”
Why? Does California have a shortage of abortionists?
This seems to have more than a few non-thought out angles to it.
– Who pays? Does CA medical funding/insurance cover AZ patients for the procedure?
– Will the AZ docs have any privileges in CA other than performing abortions?
– Who certifies the AZ docs to perform abortions in CA? Or is CA just going to bless anyone with a scalpel and a set of forceps? Why limit it to AZ docs?
– Presumably the docs will be paying CA income tax for the proceeds of their work in CA. Does that bring any other entangling regs along with it?
– Is there going to be a boom in tourist trapish roadside abortion clinics popping up on the state border?
In all, this sounds like a poorly planned purely pandering political posture.
“Is there going to be a boom in tourist trapish roadside abortion clinics popping up on the state border?”
It would sure be a break from all the roadside tribal jewelry shacks.
“Free necklace with any abortion service!”
All of those questions are explicitly answered in the post, if you’d bothered to read it.
I can see the roadside signs now.
“Visit Abortion Town! Turn Left At Next Exit”
“Last Chance For Abortion For 400 Miles”
“Free Tank of Gas For Every Procedure”
“Two for One Special”
“Wednesday Half Price Day”
“Quicktime Oil Change – Get An Abortion While U Wait”
“Welcome to California — Fruit and Pelvic Inspection Station, 500 feet”
Arizona response: “Any doctor licensed in the state of Arizona that travels to another state to perform a procedure that is illegal in Arizona will immediately forfeit their Arizona license.”
The benefits of living in Arizona without the downside of living in California.
That would be unconstitutional. It would infringe the right to travel, and the full faith and credit clause. Also the privileges and immunities clause, if the supreme court started taking that seriously.
Gavin only cares about Gavin. He’s a narcissistic psychopath. A charlatan in all regards. He cares not one bit about the health and welfare of women or animals or the environment
On climate change; If rolling his eyes and speaking in tongues polled well, then he would be flopping on the ground in fits of cultish ecstasy.
Ritual human sacrifice poles well among women voters, so he sacrifices the weakest among us – the unborn.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is obsessed with abortion.
All totalitarian dictatorships need a weak and powerless group to blame and exterminate. This keeps the heat off the Dear Leader’s numerous (not to mention very embarrassing) failures.
As I see it, the problem with this law is not that it lets AZ doctors practice in CA, it’s that it’s so restrictive. The practice of medicine does not change with location. A medical license from any state _should_ be good in every state, no restrictions. But the doctor’s guilds don’t like competition, and the Supreme Court has not yet chosen to apply the full faith and credit clause.