PROP O: PROTECT PEOPLE SEEKING ABORTION IN SAN FRANCISCO

Just two years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, putting the lives, freedoms, and futures of millions of people who can get pregnant at risk. Not only are pregnant people in 21 states across the U.S. either banned or severely restricted from getting abortions in their own states, the same people who came after abortion rights are also now threatening to punish pregnant people from seeking abortions in other states as well. No one should face a threat of prosecution for making a decision about their own body.

People who seek abortions are overwhelmingly young, women of color, or already have children. We must do more to allow people to make what decisions are best for them and their bodies.

That’s why we are supporting the San Francisco Reproductive Freedom Act, which protects pregnant people’s information when they seek reproductive care in our city. It’s absurd to think that someone would be prosecuted for simply seeking healthcare, but that is the future that the anti-abortion movement wants. The Reproductive Freedom Act would prevent San Francisco from using city funds to provide information to support the prosecution of a reproductive health service.

This measure also aims to eliminate barriers to reproductive care by requiring public information to be provided about where people can access reproductive health services and requiring signage at crisis pregnancy centers (essentially anti-abortion facilities that pose as reproductive healthcare centers) that tell people those locations do not provide comprehensive reproductive healthcare and where they can get information about locations that do.