Victory! A Surprise Pro-life Veto from California's Pro-abortion Governor Brown

Doug Mainwaring : Oct 2, 2018
LifeSiteNews.com

"SB 320 would have required our UC/CSU Student Health Centers to become Abortion Clinics, forcing them to distribute the Chemical Abortion Pill, ending lives up to 10 weeks of pregnancy and hurting many women for a lifetime." -Californians for Life

(California)— [LifeSiteNews.com] In a surprise eleventh hour move, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have required university student health centers to dispense abortion pills. (Photo via LifeSiteNews)

Known as the "College Student Right to Access Act," the controversial SB 320 would have essentially transformed state universities into abortion facilities by mandating that campus health clinics begin providing abortifacients no later than 2022.

"The average distance to abortion providers in campus communities varies from five to seven miles, not an unreasonable distance," said Brown, explaining his rationale for vetoing the measure. "Because the services required by this bill are widely available off-campus, this bill is not necessary."

Although the governor's veto is pragmatic, it remains a win for the pro-life movement.

"Today's veto is a victory for all women, students, and taxpayers in California," said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America. The group held numerous rallies, tabled on campuses, and met with university administrators, as well as lobbied and testified in Sacramento against the bill.

SB 320 "would have required our university student health centers to become abortion clinics," noted a statement from Californians for Life, part of the coalition opposed to the bill... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here.

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