California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) said during an interview with NBC that the debate surrounding late-term abortion is a “complete canard.”
“Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker asked the governor, “Do you think there is a week that access to abortion should be banned?”
“I’ve think we’ve established that firmly in the context of what states are doing like California, where we established a Constitutional right to access abortion,” Newsom responded. “At the end of the day, I think that’s a determination for women and their doctors.”
“As it relates to getting into the debate around late-term abortion,” the governor added, “that’s a complete canard.”
In 2022, the state of California voted to codify a “right to abortion” in the state constitution. The state also paid for billboards advertising abortion tourism, some of which included a Bible verse from the Book of Mark, reading, “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:31).
“Proposition 1 changes the California Constitution to say that the state cannot deny or interfere with a person’s reproductive freedom and that people have the fundamental right to choose,” California’s Legislative Analyst’s office said at the time.
The pro-life group California Family Alliance pushed back against the billboards, releasing a video titled “This Is Your Neighbor” featuring Gavin Newsom and an unborn child, American Faith reported.
California Family Alliance condemned Newsom’s use of Scripture saying, “As a deeply perverted justification advertising abortion, Newsom corrupts the words of Jesus in Mark 12:31, posting ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no greater commandment than these’ on billboards in Mississippi and Oklahoma.”
