Abortion rights groups support Californian Democrats in the escalating struggle to re -sign congress cards, warning that Republicans take on the heels of deep unpopular cutbacks in the field of health net and restrictions on reproductive care.
And they are worried that more comes, including one National Abortion Prohibition.
“You take away our liberties, we take your seats away,” said Jodi Hicks, CEO of Planned Parenthood branches of California, during the pitch of Gov. Gavin Newsom to adopt democratically tendency to compensate for President Donald Trump’s attempt to strengthen Gop seats in Texas.
“We can’t sit unemployed while the Trump government, while their donors in the congress strive to get rid of blue states of their autonomy.”
This week, the legislators in California are debating the new congress cards, drawn by Newsom Allies, who would temporarily replace it that were drawn by the independent Redistricting Commission of the State. If they are approved, voters would have the final say in a special November election.
Mobilization comes as a planned parenthood, one of the most important reproductive rights groups in the country, tries to prevent further political and financing losses. Since the Supreme Court was destroyed Roe v. Wade in 2022, conservativeIncluding Texas, laws have implemented almost completely forbiding abortion. And Republicans approved Trump’s tax and expenditure account With mass cuts on Medicaidthose providers of the safety net such as planned parenthood floating.
The Trump administration has recently excluded the organization and its affiliated companies from receiving compensation for non -abortion services such as cancer investigation and contraception, although a federal court has temporary Pausal enforcement In anticipation of a legal challenge.
John Seago, president of Texas Right to Life, said that the anti-abortion group does not take a position on the redistribution proposals of both states. But, he said, the rhetoric of Democrats about protecting democracy sounds hollow when blue states such as California pass “shield laws”That protect patients who are looking for abortions and their care providers to experience consequences and make it more difficult for states such as Texas to maintain their laws.
Hicks, whose group represents about 1 in 5 planned parental clinics nationally, promised to “go into everything” on the voting of Newsom. She refused to say how much money the organization would spend on the campaign.
She added that she would not be surprised to see more health care groups. opposes the recent Medicaid cuts- Jump in election policy after the passage of Trump’s characteristic law. “Healthcare organizations that may not get involved in those specific breeds look at things differently,” she said.
Until now, support for the health industry has been limited to proponents of abortion rights. Reproductive freedom for everyone, the National Abortion Rights Group that is previously known as Naral, also praised Newsom for “holding republicans responsible for trying to steal voting.”
Planned Parenthood Texas Voting, the range of interests of the affiliated companies of the State, has encouraged supporters to testify during special session meetings and Held a webinar To “stop the redistribution of the power grip.” And the National Planned Parenthood Action Fund encouraged leaders in Democratic States to “push all the tools in their power to press back, push the national playing field back and stop the slide to authoritarianism”.
Hicks and her group are not strangers Big political fighting- Even against Newsom. Last year they and other health leaders led a $ 56 million campaign to withstand a revised tax on health care in November about the Governor’s concerns.
Newsom, trying to build a national profile prior to one Potential presidential offer in 2028said that the effort would ‘neutralize’ the Republican Gerrymenders in Texas to fill the fragile five -sitting benefit of their party in the American house. The party in the White House has generally lost conference seats in the interim elections, and political analysts say that the trend will probably take place in 2026.
Newsom also called in legislators Other Democratic States To follow this example if Gop -States continue with redistribution plans. Leaders in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New York and Ohio have suggested that they could investigate similar actions, creating a potential cascade that political experts said they could sow chaos in next year’s interim elections and put a dangerously precedent.
California Republican Party President Corrin Rankin, whose party stands to lose five of the nine house chairs that it currently has, mentioned the proposal of Newsom A “calculated gripping power who dismissed voters who set up voters” when they passed on congress redistribution Reform in 2010.
Democratic leaders have set the step if necessary to combat an existential threat to democracy. And they criticized the Republicans because they tried to put an end to the anger of voters against their policy, in particular on health care. Almost half of the adults think that the tax and expenditure law applied by the Republicans will harm them, according to a July survey by KFF. More than half are of the opinion that abortion should be legal, at least under some circumstances, according to a Gallup poll in May.
The Republican Megabill is expected to be Medicaid, the federal health care program that covers with almost $ 1 trillion with a low income for 10 years. And the Trump administration has reduced the financing At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, including the reversal of medical and scientific research funds from universities.
“They know that voters will hold them responsible for the cutbacks they have rammed by the congress that will get rid of health care from millions of people,” said Democratic state legislator Sabrina Cervantes, chairman of the Senate elections and constitutional changes. “Because they know they can’t win fair elections, they change the rules in the middle of the game.”
Republican established operators who can be earned again in oblivion, cry dirty.
“Central decennium redistribution is wrong, regardless of where it is being done,” wrote Rep. Doug Lamalfa op het sociale platform X. Vorige week heeft de zevenjarige Republikein een vijandig stadhuis in zijn landelijke district Noord-Californië doorstaan en zijn stem voor de nieuwe wet verdedigde door te zeggen dat het “geen enkele dollar snijdt van mensen die kwalificeerden” voor Medi-Cal, de Medical, de Medical, de Medical, de Medical, de Medical, het Medicalische programma.
If approved by voters, said proponents, the 52 new house districts of California would also strengthen vulnerable congress democrats and be in force for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections. The card would not be in force unless another state approved its own geryming inspection. After the 2030 census, the State Committee would regain control of the process.
Paul Mitchell, a redistribution expert who helped in drawing up the map of the Democrats, said that his team used the district boundaries of the committee as the starting point and for more than half of the districts moved less than 10 percent of voters.
“This is not a Twitter hack task,” said Mitchell, a democrat who has been married to Hicks and has long supported the work of the independent committee. “I want to go back to non -party -bound redistribution, but now we are in a crisis.”
National polls Show voters oppose partisan redistribution. And Californian voters Still overwhelming supports the independent redistribution system of the state, said Veteran Gop-Strateg Rob Stutzman, who added that passing on such a complicated voice language in an election outside the year would not be easy performance.
“You ask voters to make a fundamental decision. You ask them to sign an election, because it is said that Texas focuses an election,” said Stutzman. “” No “voices are so much easier when it is confusing, and this is extremely confusing.”
Dave Wasserman, senior editor and election analyst for the Cook Political Report, said that Texas and California have the potential to create a “redistribution of apocalypse” that will have major implications in the struggle to control the congress.
“If Democrats did not pass a voice initiative to compensate Texas, Republicans would have a very limited chance of keeping the house to an even chance,” he said. But, he added that public opinion on austerity cuts on health care remains the biggest obstacle on the path of the party.
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