California's Planned Parenthood ready to offer reproductive healthcare to Arizonans

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Planned Parenthood in California says they’ve already begun offering reproductive healthcare to people from other states.

Planned Parenthood in California says it’s prepared to handle an influx of people from Arizona who may be seeking reproductive healthcare. On Tuesday, Arizona effectively banned abortion by reinstating an 1864 law forbidding the procedure except to save a mother’s life.California is a sanctuary state for reproductive rights and Planned Parenthood Northern California says they’ve been preparing for years to help those who can’t get services in their home state.

In 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that abortion is not a right protected under the Constitution, and it left it up to states to decide on abortion rights. On Tuesday, the advocacy group Reproductive Freedom for All released a statement saying in part: "With Trump and the Republican Party working to ban abortion in all 50 states, California is ground zero for taking back the House so that we can lock in the reproductive freedom majority who will restore the federal right to abortion.

 

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