Reagan Gets Bill Easing Abortion In California - Jun 14, 1967
June 14, 1967 The California Assembly passed and sent to Governor Reagan a bill easing the state’s abortion law, unchanged in 95 years.
Reagan said the bill was “by no means perfect” and would have to be watched closely to prevent California from becoming an abortion haven. But he said he would sign it despite his doubts about some possible “loopholes.”
“I am fully sympathetic with attempts to liberalize the outdated abortion law now on the law books of California,” the freshman governor said....
The bill...would permit abortions before the 20th week of pregnancy if:
-The prospective mother’s physical or mental health is in danger.
-The pregnancy resulted from incest or forcible rape, or statutory rape in the case of a girl 14 years old or younger.
The old law permits abortions only if the life of the prospective mother is endangered.
Reagan Gets Bill Easing Abortion In California - The Norwalk Hour - Jun 14, 1967
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We lived in California at the time. The biggest mistake social conservatives made was picketing hospitals, because it drove abortion to outside clinics that became profit centers, and hospitals could no longer control who received abortions.
You do realize that President Reagan saw this as a mistake. In fact one of his biographers’ said this was “perhaps Reagan’s greatest disappointment in public life.”