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In an effort to circumvent Arizona’s restrictive abortion law, California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a proposal that would allow Arizona doctors to provide abortions to their patients in California through the end of November.

Newsom’s proposal is a direct response to Arizona’s 1864 law, which prohibits nearly all abortions except in cases where the mother’s life is in danger. This law is set to take effect on June 8th.

Newsom has been a vocal advocate for abortion rights and has made defending access to abortion a priority of his administration. He has pushed for abortion access to be enshrined into the California Constitution, approved funding to help women from other states come to California for abortions, and signed laws to make it harder for other states to investigate women for coming to California for abortions.

Despite the dominance of Democrats in California, the state government has been criticized for ignoring the rising concerns of residents about crime. The state’s Democratic leaders, including Governor Gavin Newsom, have been committed to ‘criminal justice reform,’ which has meant decreasing penalties for crime. However, post-pandemic worries about crime, fueled by videos depicting brazen carjackings, home robberies, and smash-and-grab assaults on stores, have led to a shift in public sentiment. Despite the evidence of increasing crime rates, the Capitol has been slow to respond, resulting in a growing dissonance between the public’s changing attitudes and the Democratic-controlled Legislature’s unchanged commitment to softening criminal penalties. This has led to a backlash, with the public demanding a change in approach to crime prevention. As a result, Newsom and other Democratic figures have begun to recast themselves as crime fighters, pledging to crack down on street crime and proposing legislation to fine-tune criminal statutes and increase punishment for certain crimes. The Legislature is also facing pressure from a November ballot measure that would go further in undoing some of the previous softer-on-crime laws. Whether a compromise can be reached between the measure’s backers and Democratic leaders to avoid a head-on collision remains to be seen.

Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed emergency legislation that aims to provide Arizona abortion providers with the ability to treat patients in California. This move comes in response to Arizona’s impending reinstatement of a near-total abortion ban based on a law dating back to 1864.