This November, voters will be asked to consider seven thorny policy proposals, from abortion to zero emission vehicles.

 a 2019 state law that requires student health care services clinics on California State University and University of California campuses to offer abortion by medication. It goes into effect in 2023 but does not include the state's community colleges. 

The three states agreed to protect patients from other states seeking reproductive health care as well as safe access to contraceptive and abortion access, and also to refuse to cooperate with states that have laws punishing either people seeking reproductive health care or doctors who provide reproductive care services like abortion.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the Roe decision, here are key takeaways of what to expect for abortion in California. They include the politics, more legislation, a possible influx of out-of-state patients and changes for health care providers.

California has twice extended the statute of limitations on child sex abuse claims, prompting nine state Catholic bishops to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the law unconstitutional.

A controversial law requiring all publicly held companies headquartered in the Golden State to have at least one woman on their board of directors has been ruled unconstitutional by a Superior Court judge..

The Catholic Church says it could be forced to litigate hundreds or thousands of cases of sex abuse by priests, resulting in potentially billions of dollars in retroactive punitive damages.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California Democrats are counting on abortion rights to drive their voters to the polls. But some may still care more about crime, homelessness and inflation.

Even before a Supreme Court draft opinion to reverse Roe v. Wade was leaked, California abortion rights groups, providers and Democratic lawmakers were getting ready for a potential influx of out-of-state women.

A pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling could hollow out a California law that lets employees collectively sue their employers over workplace law violations.

The federal appeals court overturned the decision of a lower court judge who had invalidated California's ban on possession of large-capacity magazines, like the ones used in the killings at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, as well as the recent fatal shootings at a Michigan high school.

Commercial growers celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid, but farmworker unions say this will make it harder for them to access workers and advocate for their rights.

The federal Court of Appeals ruling this week likely will send challenges to the state’s assault weapons ban to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Nine days after the mass murder of nine VTA workers in San Jose, a federal judge in San Diego overturned California’s assault weapons ban. California officials vowed to win on appeal, but gun advocates are emboldened by a shifting Supreme Court.

In a press release sent to reporters early this week, county officials declared the resolution a victory for lesbian, gay and transgender rights.

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