CALIFORNIA SENATOR TRIES TO ‘BAN’ POSSIBLE FUTURE LAWS AGAINST ABORTION

LOS ANGELES, August 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A California state senator, Sheila Kuehl (Dem.), is sponsoring a bill to “ban” the state’s legislators from ever trying to outlaw abortion. “We have an anti-choice president, an anti-choice Congress, and a Supreme Court that’s one vote away from overturning Roe v. Wade,” the Los Angeles Democrat claims, citing the possible retirement in the near future of pro-choice and/or swing-vote justices from the Supreme Court: “Now is the time to protect our right to choose.”  Sen. Kuehl’s Act is an attempt to bind California from hypothetically passing a law to “deny or interfere with a woman’s fundamental right to bear a child or to choose or obtain an abortion,” and includes “non-surgical [chemically-induced] abortions” prescribed by non-medical personnel. The state senate passed the law earlier this month with vocal support from Democratic Governor Gray Davis.  But traditionally, a legislature cannot bind the freedom of action of a future legislature (i.e. denying the next generation in a democratic society from expressing its will)—thus implying that Miss Kuehl’s bill is merely a pro-abortion symbol inspired by a totalitarian impulse.  To read Washington Times coverage see:  https://www.washtimes.com/national/20020815-33253900.htm