California moves to secure access to abortion

State Senator Nancy Skinner (D-East Bay) chairs the California Legislative Women's Caucus and said lawmakers already passed more than a dozen bills aimed at protecting abortion rights since the Supreme Court overruled Roe vs. Wade. Skinner promised more legislation is coming. 

"It's 17 bills, and those bills will further expand out protections and recognize that our health care practitioners provide health care to women all over the country," Skinner said.

Lawmakers in California who support access to abortion say this is not a fight they can win focused solely on what happens within the state's borders, and they need to work to make sure the state is a refuge for anyone seeking abortion rights.

In the meantime, the state has already started stockpiling mifepriston with more than 250,000 pills already purchased.

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