California attorney general warns Temecula not to pass abortion ban [View all]
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta warned there will be "legal action" against the Temecula City Council if it passes an abortion ban in the city in an attempt to override state law.
Bonta's office sent a letter to the council Friday, stating that local legislation that goes against state law is considered "void."
"The California Legislature and the California Supreme Court have declared time and again that California is a reproductive freedom state and that Californians have a right to access abortion," the letter read. "In 1981, the California Supreme Court held that 'all women in this state rich and poor alike possess a fundamental constitutional right to choose whether or not to bear a child.'"
The letter stressed that Bonta "takes seriously his obligation to protect Californians' right to reproductive freedom" and won't "hesitate to take legal action should a local regulation conflict with California state law."
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