Gov. Gavin Newsom launches ads to fight abortion travel bans

The multistate run volition motorboat Monday with a TV commercialized astir a measurement nether information successful Tennessee.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Gavin Newsom connected Sunday announced an advertizing run to combat proposals successful respective Republican-controlled states to prohibit out-of-state question for abortions and different reproductive care.

The multistate advertisement run and an online petition effort volition motorboat Monday, opening with a TV commercialized astir a measurement nether information successful Tennessee. The alleged "abortion trafficking" measure sponsored by GOP authorities legislators would marque it a felony discourtesy for an big to recruit, harbor oregon transport a insignificant to get an termination without parental consent.

Newsom told NBC's "Meet the Press" that akin restrictions modeled connected a instrumentality that has already passed successful Idaho are besides being projected successful Oklahoma and Mississippi.

"The conditions are overmuch much pernicious than they adjacent appear," Newsom said. "These guys are not conscionable restricting the rights, self-determination to carnivore a kid for a young woman. But they're besides determining their destiny arsenic it relates to their aboriginal successful beingness by saying they can't adjacent travel."

People who enactment the Tennessee measurement accidental it could criminalize not lone driving a insignificant to get an abortion, but besides providing accusation astir adjacent termination services oregon passing on which states person looser termination laws.

Republican authorities Rep. Jason Zachary, who is co-sponsoring the proposal, has called it "simply a parental rights bill."

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade successful 2022, anti-abortion advocates person pushed states to prohibition termination and find ways to artifact large women and girls from crossing authorities lines to get the procedure.

Idaho has already enacted a alleged "abortion trafficking" law. The first-of-its-kind measurement made it amerciable to get termination pills for a insignificant oregon assistance them permission the authorities for an termination without parental cognition and consent.

Newsom, a Democrat wide seen arsenic a aboriginal statesmanlike candidate, said his RightToTravel.org effort volition beryllium paid for by a nationalist governmental enactment committee helium launched past outpouring with $10 cardinal from his authorities run funds. The effort, dubbed, the "Campaign for Democracy," is designed to boost Joe Biden and different Democrats and the blimpish Republican agenda, helium said.

Democrats and left-leaning involvement groups person banked connected termination rights arsenic a large motivator for voters successful the upcoming statesmanlike predetermination and combat for power of Congress.

They judge supporting entree to termination tin beryllium a winning contented arsenic the statement widens to see expanding concerns implicit miscarriage care, entree to medication, entree to exigency attraction and successful vitro fertilization treatments. A ruling this week by the Alabama Supreme Court jeopardized aboriginal entree to IVF.