CA Legislature Ends Session With a Flurry, Sending Bills Harmful to Women & Children to the Governor
The California Legislature ended its 2020 session just past midnight on August 31, sending dangerous bills to the governor desk that will put women and children in danger.
CFC has been fighting these bills all year. Some of the worst bills sterilize children with transgender drugs and surgeries, lower the criminal penalties for adults who have sex with minors, force female inmates to accept male inmates in their prisons, and dangerously lower health standards for abortion providers. Here are some of the details:
SB 145: Lower Penalties for Sex With Minors
This bill gives judges discretion over whether to make an adult register as a sex offender if they had annal or oral sex with a willing minor. The discretion is only allowed if the minor victim is 14-year-old or older and the statutory rapist is less than ten years older. That means a judge can give a break to a 24-year-old who seduces a same-sex 14-year-old. The law currently and wrongly gives the same judicial discretion in similar statutory rape cases if the victim and perpetrator had vaginal sex.
Watch the Assembly debate on this bill approved with a vote of 41-25. See votes here.
Even powerful democrat Assemblywoman Gonzalez said the bill makes children "subject to a predator."
Even powerful democrat Assemblywoman Gonzalez said the bill makes children "subject to a predator."
AB 2218: Funds for Sterilizing Drugs and Surgeries for Children and Adults with Gender Dysphoria
This establishes a fund to provide, among other things, grants to nonprofits, hospitals, health care clinics (like Planned Parenthood), and other medical providers to pay for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mastectomies for minors (as young as 13), as well as cross-sex hormones and “sex-change” operations for adults. Originally the bill asked for $15 million to start the fund, but that amount was recently removed from the bill text. Now the exact amount added to the fund will be decided by the legislature at a later date.
Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, said this about AB 2218, “This isn’t the fulfillment of personal autonomy – this is the celebration of acts of cruelty.”
See the votes on SB 145 here. To learn more, read here…
SB-132: Forces Women's Prisions to Admit Male Inmates
This bill would allow any incarcerated male to claim that he has a feminine “gender identity” and give them a legal right to be housed at a women’s facility. Correctional facility staff, contractors and volunteers would be forced to use language pretending that inmates are the gender they identify. Facility officials would be forbidden from considering anatomy, the presence or absence of a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and the presence or absence of any other physical or mental health diagnosis when determining housing.
See votes here. To learn more, read here...
SB 1237 and AB 890: Lowering health standards for abortion providers again
In 2013, AB-154 lowered the health safety standards for women in California by letting non-physicians, including nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse-midwives do first-trimester surgical and medical abortions. State legislators are at it again this year with the introduction of SB 1237, a bill authored by Senator Bill Dodd (D - Napa) to remove the requirement that certified nurse-midwives be directly supervised by a doctor. AB 890, authored by Assemblyman Jim Wood (D - Eureka) does the same thing for physician assistants. According to the Right to Life League, these bills threaten women’s safety and the lives of unborn children.
AB 1145 Lowers the Mandated Reporting Requirements for Some Statutory Rape Cases
This bill changes the reporting requirements for mandated reporters if the perpetrator is younger than 21, the minor victim is 16 or older, and the sexual activity is consensual. Then means a high school teacher who knows or suspects one of her female students is having sex with a 20-year-old man, they are no longer required to report it to authorities.
This bill is especially concerning in light of how many LGBT organizations are sponsoring social events between young teenagers and young adults. See the following fliers for LGBT social events. Below is a sample:
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