Commentary
Abortions aren’t free. Neither is what’s called “abortion tourism.”
A controversy has erupted over how much Proposition 1, which if enacted Nov. 8 would put a right to abortion in the California Constitution, might cost state taxpayers if enacted. And how it would affect health care in general in California, especially for women wanting to keep their pregnancies—that is, have the beautiful, bouncing baby.
The initiative was put on the ballot by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature after the U.S. Supreme Court last June overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationally.
Writing in the Oct. 31 Orange County Register, Tak Allen, president of the International Faith Based Coalition, who favors the state’s current legalization law, charged:…