SACRAMENTO—California Assemblymembers voted to bring forth an amendment to codify abortion in its Constitution yesterday afternoon in a 58 to 16 vote.
Senate Constitutional Amendment 10 (SCA 10), authored by Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), will go before voters in the General Election in November.
SCA 10 will expand the state’s current abortion protections under the Reproductive Privacy Act, which allows women to seek an abortion without prohibition or infringement on privacy.
The amendment will build upon the outline of the state’s protections and enshrine its permanency into the Constitution by prohibiting “the state from denying or interfering with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives.”…