Governor Davis Signs Women's Health, Reproductive Rights Legislation (What would Arnold Do?)

Governor Davis Press Release | 10/02/2003

[ElkGroveDan]

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
10/02/2003

GOVERNOR DAVIS SIGNS WOMEN'S HEALTH, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS LEGISLATION 10/02/2003

SACRAMENTO

Governor Gray Davis signed a package of women's health care bills that continues California's role as a champion of women's rights.

"I have signed legislation that increases a woman's protection against hate crimes, allows them the right of free choice and provides them with more rights in domestic violence cases," Gov. Davis said. "I am proud that the legislation I am announcing today keeps California on the forefront of women's rights issue."

SB 490 by Senator Dede Alpert (D-San Diego) authorizes a licensed pharmacist to furnish emergency contraception to women in accordance with standardized procedures and protocols developed by the Board of Pharmacy and the Medical Board of California, in consultation with specified entities. Under current law, physicians are citing liability concerns when declining to establish a protocol with individual pharmacists. SB 490 provides a second process which allows pharmacists to furnish emergency contraception under a statewide protocol developed by the two relevant state boards.

"Emergency contraception should be available to any woman who needs it, whenever she needs it," said Sen. Alpert. "That's why I authored SB 490-to ensure that emergency contraception would be available to women across California, including those who live in rural areas, and that any pharmacist on duty could dispense it."

SB 545 by Senator Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough) prohibits licensed pharmacists from charging patients a separate administrative fee of more than $10 for initiating emergency contraception (EC) therapy. Pharmacists are still free to negotiate reimbursements from insurers.

In addition, this bill:

• Replaces the existing EC training requirements for pharmacists with a requirement for at least one hour of approved continuing education;
• Requires a pharmacist to disclose the total retail price for EC therapy;
• Prohibits a pharmacist from requiring a patient to provide individually identifiable medical information that is isn't necessary to initiate EC therapy.

AB 663 by Assemblymember Sally Lieber (D-Mountain View) prohibits a physician, surgeon or a student undertaking a course of professional instruction at a clinical training program from performing a pelvic examination on an anesthetized or unconscious female patient unless the patient has consented to the examination. This bill would allow for a pelvic examination when it is within the scope of care for a surgery or a diagnostic examination to be performed or when necessary for diagnostic purposes on an unconscious patient.

"This is an important measure to give women confidence and protection in our healthcare," said Assem. Lieber.

AB 996 by Assemblymember Patricia Wiggins (D-Santa Rosa) extends to reproductive health services facilities an existing prohibition on insurers from canceling or refusing to renew a property insurance policy due to claims arising from specified hate crimes. The bill also prohibits an insurer from imposing an excessive or unfairly discriminatory property insurance premium because a facility has been the victim of a hate crime.

SB 71 by Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) provide school districts with clearer definitions, requirements and guidelines ensures that California students receive accurate and factual information about abstinence, human sexuality, contraception, pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. SB 71 establishes the California Comprehensive Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Act. It would repeal, amend, expand, consolidate and renumber various code sections of existing law governing instruction in public schools on HIV/AIDS prevention and sexual health education.

"School districts, parents, teachers and students will now have a greater opportunity to understand and follow the law regarding HIV/AIDS and sex education instruction," Sen. Kuehl said. "Parents will continue to have the right to decide to teach their children about sexuality or disease prevention, but they'll also have the right to know that their school districts are teaching scientifically accurate and comprehensive information about these topics."

AB 561 by Assemblymember Sally Lieber (D-Mountain View) codifies within the Office of Family Planning in the Department of Health Services the Male Involvement Program, the Community Challenge Grant Program, the TeenSMART Program and the Information and Education Program as part of the existing teen pregnancy programs.

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GOVERNOR GRAY DAVIS ·SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 95814 · (916) 445-2841

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[exmarine]

That makes me a person who pays attention to moral issues...Arnold favors abortion - read any write-up from anyone on that...it has been said so many times that anyone who doesn't know it is living in a bubble. ARNOLD IS A LIBERAL. Chew on that.

[exmarine]

Hahaha. That's a laugh. Who knows what sinister reason is behind their opposition to Arnie. My reasons are MORAL - feminists wouldn't know morality if it up and kicked them them in their masculine fannies.

[Tamzee]

Stop trying to change the subject.

You are spouting that Arnold approves of abortion all the way up to the ninth month.... prove it, retract it or you are an immoral fraud.

[miloklancy]

Do you really think it is just pure chance that Davis signs this legislation the day the L.A. Times expose that you religiously believe comes out?

[exmarine]

You are spouting that Arnold approves of abortion all the way up to the ninth month.... prove it, retract it or you are an immoral fraud.

I don't have to prove it - I heard it on the radio or read it on-line. I don't have to prove squat. I am reporting what I heard. I don't remember the source and that's the truth - I don't give a flip what you think about me - who are you? Some arniebot on-line. Take a flying leap off short one. Your indignation is laughable. Why don't you ask him if you doubt???? Why don't you ask one of those PROSTITUTE conservatives who sell their moral values for a dubious victory!

[Tamzee]

Are you behaving this way because you think it is Christ-like?

[exmarine]

Hey pinhead, there IS NO MORAL DIFFERENCE between 9 month abortion and a 4 month abortion. So, regardless of whether it's true, Arnie is still an advocate for baby killing. Deal with it - your candidate is a liberal. Let me say it again louder: AHH-NOLD IS A LIBERAL.

[exmarine]

Are you behaving this way because you think it is Christ-like?

I'm being blunt because that is all that people like you understand.

[Colofornian]

Chant the mantra everyone. This election is not about social issues, there's nothing the governor can do about abortion. Look the other way.

LOL

I wonder. Do the FREEPERS who have mantraized me been sitting in the proper Lotus position when they chanted that @ me?

[Tamzee]

A FINE example of Christ you are, except I don't recall his ever engaging in lies or mindless name-calling.

You're the type that scares voters away from conservative values... hope you are SO proud of yourself.

[Colofornian]

You are spouting that Arnold approves of abortion all the way up to the ninth month

Wow! Ya mean Arnie is against killing a babe after it has partially emerged from the womb?

Wow! What a rock of moral fortitude! Imagine that! Pre-trek down the birth canal & Arnie says: "Dey are destined for the same fate as Teddy's babe inside Mary Jo K..." But once the head emerges...and Arnie rushes in to protect the little one.

[Colofornian]

Most pro-choice folks I've met don't support it all the way up until delivery

I know. Can't get more superstitious than that, now can you? These folks actually believe that some magical transformation takes place somewhere in the womb...they can't tell you when or how, but in a world of ultrasounds, fetal surgeries, and obstetricians who generally treat pre-borns as second patients, ya gotta wonder what primitive time machine they emerged from...

[exmarine]

A FINE example of Christ you are, except I don't recall his ever engaging in lies or mindless name-calling.

I didn't tell any lies. If you think pinhead is namecalling, you haven't been around here much. And you do act like a pinhead with your demand that I provide proof (I don't have to provide you with anything), and your facile defense of an admitted liberal masquerading as the conservative Captain America.

You're the type that scares voters away from conservative values... hope you are SO proud of yourself.

Moral relativists do not need a reason to switch votes - they change directions like the wind because they have no moral anchor.

[Tamzee]

You're a joke.

Bye.

[Tamzee]

Did you read the entire thread before you slammed into the discussion?

He claims that Arnold supports abortion all the way up to the 9th month.... I simply asked him to prove that. Can you? And sorry, but there are a lot of Americans that believe abortion is different at one month than it is at eight months... until you all or nothing fools get a grip on that concept, we don't make ANY advances against abortion. Wow... deal with it.

[Colofornian]

there are a lot of Americans that believe abortion is different at one month than it is at eight months... until you all or nothing fools get a grip on that concept, we don't make ANY advances against abortion.

Of course, "a lot of Americans" are irrational in their belief system. What's new about that concept?

What you said would be like me saying:

...A lot of Americans think polygamy & civil unions constitutes a marriage, and until we grip that concept, we don't make ANY advances on defining marriage as between one man & one woman;

...A lot of Americans believe pornography is "free speech"...and until fools grip that, women & children will continue to be victimized minus ANY advancement in protecting them...

So, what the licentious left defines every debate?

[jmstein7]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/995037/posts