Twenty Democratic governors are organizing a network to improve abortion access since the US Supreme Court struck down a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy and gave state governments regulatory responsibility over abortion.
The Reproductive Freedom Alliance, chaired by California Gov. Gavin Newsom of the Democratic Party, allows governors and their staffs to reinforce abortion rights for 170 million Americans and services for the remaining US citizens in states with more stringent regulations, as per an AP News story.
Organizers said that includes exchanging model legislative wording and presidential orders safeguarding abortion access, measures to shield abortion doctors from prosecution, and efforts to optimize government funding for reproductive health care, including birth control post-Roe v Wade.
Moreover, the coalition of Democratic Party governors will promote support for abortion pharmaceutical and contraception makers facing possible new restrictions from republicans.
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Upholding Fundamental Rights
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lynn Lujan Grisham emphasized that the launch comes as a Texas federal court weighs a challenge to medication abortion, which currently accounts for most US abortions.
California Governor Gavin Newsom called the initiative "a moral obligation" and a "firewall" to safeguard fundamental rights, per the Washington Post. The coalition includes the Democratic Party governors of every presidential battlefield state, including Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer, North Carolina's Roy Cooper, Pennsylvania's Josh Shapiro, and Wisconsin's Tony Evers.
The alliance's start-up funds come from the California Wellness Foundation and the Rosenberg Foundation, per WRIC News's report. Meanwhile, the US Supreme Court said that an investigation into who leaked the Roe v. Wade decision weeks before it was made public failed to identify the culprit, according to a previous HNGN report.
Last month, the Supreme Court called the leak "a horrific attack on the judicial process," and the inquiry's inconclusiveness was a further embarrassment.
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