SAN FRANCISCO, September 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – In a brazen all-out concession to the pro-abortion movement, California’s Democratic governor Gray Davis has passed three bills that place his state at the forefront of jurisdictions whose laws stand in contempt of human life. The three bills, highlighted by Operation Rescue, are: (1.) SB 1301, the Reproductive Privacy Act, an attempt to enshrine abortion as a protected right even if in future the Supreme Court overturns Roe. v. Wade; (2.) AB 2194, which order many hospitals and doctors to provide and undergo abortion training; and (3.) AB 1860, which requires that rape crisis centers automatically give out “emergency contraceptives” (abortifacient drugs). Two more bills are in the pipeline: (a.) SB 1230, which allows human cloning if the embryo is destroyed for medical research; and (b.) SB 253 to allow experimentation on live human embryos that are killed in the process. Meanwhile, pro-abortion groups across the U.S. are complaining that doctors at Catholic hospitals don’t necessarily give out the abortifacients, prompting Louis Giovino, spokesman for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, to note that separation of church and state guarantees the hospitals’ right not to give out immoral, death-inducing drugs. “Catholic hospitals have a right to follow their own beliefs. It’s a First Amendment issue here—the separation of church and state. The government can’t encroach on the church by forcing Catholic hospitals to do something that’s against their beliefs.” To read local coverage see: https://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/state/4014977.htm
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