My name is Susan Swift.
I am the VP for Legal Affairs
at the right to Life League.
That's America's first pro-life organization.
We were founded in 1967,
and we've been fighting against
abortion in California since
long before Roe versus Wade.
Yes, this is D day. Dobbs day.
Dobbs has now overruled Roe versus Wade.
We are ecstatic and we are
overjoyed because first of all,
from perspective as an attorney,
it this is federalism in action.
Our Constitution limits the federal
government at what it can and cannot do.
The problem with Roe versus Wade
fundamentally was it created a
right that did not exist in law.
Our Congress has never passed
a an abortion amendment.
There is no right to abortion
in the Constitution that was
made up by an activist court.
They created it.
That's the type of thing that
that pro aborts and leftists want.
They want they want men in black robes to
simply create the laws that they like, and.
What Dobbs has done is that has overturned
a badly written decision of Roe versus Wade,
and then its progeny,
Casey and it has returned to the
states what was rightfully theirs,
namely the issue of abortion
and what has happened today.
Did the the right to abortion.
Was it taken away? No?
First of all, it never existed.
Second of all that that issue,
if you're going to create a right,
it belongs to the state,
so there is no federal right?
So nothing has changed.
If you live in Texas.
The rights are now limited because it starts.
Texas starts recognizing the
right of the unborn to life.
If you live in California,
as I do, nothing has changed.
They're going to be doing abortions
24/7 on demand, up through delivery.
Well in California.
The legislature is very, very pro abortion.
They are funded by the,
you know,
the abortion cartel and so they they
get elected by by being pro abortion
and they they sponsor these bills
and a lot of them are spending bills
designed to put money back into
the coffers of Planned Parenthood.
And they roll.
As you've mentioned, one of them is SB 1142.
That's the abortion vacay.
Building abortion tourism bill that
they're going to be using our taxpayer
dollars to pay for everything from travel,
lodging, lost wages,
you know,
for for the time you're away from work,
insurance, even babysitting.
I kid you not.
They're going to pay for all of it so
that women can come from all around
our country to get an abortion.
That's what they're doing.
And it's it's worse than that.
They have 2020 bills like this.
There's abortion scholarships.
You want to learn to be an abortionist.
The state will pay for it.
There's the AB 2223, the infanticide bill.
That's the one that's going to legalize
abortion all the way through delivery.
Past delivery into the perinatal
period that that can be up to 28 days.
They're going to legalize that,
but I'll I'll give them one thing.
At least they are going through
this in an orderly legal fashion.
They're changing the laws
that they want to change.
They have the power to do it,
and they're just marching it through.
They are not defying the law.
As James Revenge is promising,
as Nancy Pelosi and I guess
it was Maxine Waters today out
front of the Supreme Court said
we will defy the Supreme Court.
That's what that's what our elected
officials here in in California,
Maxine Waters and Nancy
Pelosi are planning to do.
They're going to absolutely
flout the the decision,
and that is exactly what these
these radical pro leftists you know
these abortionists want to do.
They ignore the laws they don't like.
At least they California.
Legislature is proceeding in at
least somewhat lawful fashion.
However,
on a lot of these bills what they're doing,
they are violating our Constitution
in California because a Supreme
Court of California has already
ruled in 1981 that you can't just
earmark spending just for abortion,
it has to be balanced.
You have to spend equal amounts you you,
you can't prefer one over the other,
because then you're you're forcing women.
With a public benefit analysis,
you're kind of encouraging them
to choose abortion, and in 1981,
our Supreme Court said you can't do that.
You have to fund it equally,
but the but the legislators
in California don't care.
They're just pushing their
radical agenda through,
and they're demanding that we
spend $120 million of taxpayer
funding to promote abortion.
And it's worse than that,
because Biden sent all the blue
states a blue state bailout.
And our our.
California surplus budget is now
approaching $100 billion for the
B and so Governor Newsom is going
to be actually able to spend money
that didn't come from California.
It came from all these other federal,
you know.
The other states that Biden has sent
him in an end run around the Hyde
Amendment to fund abortion here.
So it's not just California taxpayer dollars,
it's Texas taxpayer dollars and
Alabama and Ohio and and these states,
you want those taxpayer dollars
are coming here to California.
To fund abortion against the Hyde
Amendment against the ruling
today out of the Supreme Court,
dobs against that in fact,
it's coming here to California
because California is going to
be the Pro abortion sanctuary
state for the entire nation.
It's deplorable and it's despicable.
But they are marching it through,
and the only thing that will fix it.
Our elections.
Absolutely,
there isn't a proposed abortion amendment
to our California State Constitution.
I was just up in Sacramento on Wednesday.
I've been up many, many times.
We oppose all pro abortion bills and any
bill that's going to expand abortion,
including the abortion amendment,
which is SCA 10.
We're opposing it all.
We are the only exclusively
pro-life organization that I know
of that is actively opposing every
one of these bills.
There's at least twenty of them.
I think it's like drinking from
a fire hose, and we're the.
We're on the front lines every
day with that we help organize
witness testimony because they
don't want to just hear from me.
They want to hear from other people as well.
So we organize doctors and abortion
survivors and people who run a clinics.
Anyone who has relevant testimony that
can give we organize that and we help
them testify before these committees,
but the committees really
don't want to hear it.
They just want to pass the pro abortion bill.
But we're going to keep fighting it.
You you have to understand the
Constitution and the way that
it was set up and structured,
but these people are very ignorant
and they're also selling fear ****.
They just they just wanted.
That's why that you've got these people
out in front of the Supreme Court,
demonstrating and crying and histrionics
and everything they're trying to scare you.
And they're trying to give you a great
media because they want to rile you up
and they want you to be fearful and afraid.
As though as though the government
is taking something away from you,
when in fact what the Supreme Court
has done and why it is so monumental.
It's it's like a brown versus
Board of Education.
It is epic in that it restores the
right to this issue to the states
it controls the federal government.
We don't want a big centralized federal
government taking away our rights
or dictating what rights we have.
That's what Roe versus Wade did 49 years ago.
It's just that the the the pro aborts
like that ruling from Roe versus Wade.
That's why they want it to continue.
They want to pick and choose.
They want to cherry pick what
laws they like and which ones they
will defy as Maxine Waters said.
So that's why they're mad about it.
But the structure of the Constitution.
Has prevailed,
the issue is now with the States and
each state can decide for themselves
and people can move to states they like.
If you're a pro abortion person,
well,
California is losing people left and right.
We probably could use you to come over
and and move here if you really like it.
Other people are going to move to
Texas and and places where their
their lifestyle is moral in line in
keeping with the values that are there.
That's how it's supposed to work.