Posts Tagged: Dobbs v. Jackson

WeToo: pushing for gender parity in the California Legislature

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks. Photo by Scott Duncan

by BY RICH EHISEN posted 05.15.2023

Advocates for greater gender parity in California politics believe that women could reach 50 percent – or beyond – before the end of the decade. On Election Day 2022, women took 11 seats previously held by men, three in the Senate and eight in the Assembly, bringing the total number of women in the Legislature to 50, or 42 percent of the membership.

CA expands abortion access and nurse practitioner authority at once

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by BY CLAIRE MCCARVILLE posted 02.16.2023

Following the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision, California lawmakers passed a large number of bills to protect the right to safe and legal abortion. But expanding abortion access also required amending the state’s complex scope of practice laws.