California Gov. Gavin Newsom has posthumously pardoned an abortion activist from the 1930s and 1940s.
FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom displays a bill he signed that shields abortion providers and volunteers in California from civil judgements from out-of-state courts during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, June 24, 2022. Newsom on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022 posthumously pardoned abortion rights activist Laura Minor, who was convicted in 1949 of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion. She was sentenced to four yours in prison on the twin felonies and died in 1976. Gov.
Her statement proved prescient, for a time. The U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision ruled in 1973 that protections under the U.S. Constitution included the right to have an abortion. The No on Prop 1 campaign did not directly comment on Newsom's pardon, but said in a statement that the governor hopes the measure “will work for him politically, " while expanding abortion rights would “ultimately be dangerous for California women.”
Miner provided health care to patients on a sliding fee scale, using payments from her wealthy and sometimes famous clients to cover the indigent. She was a licensed chiropractor, according to an online account by her granddaughter, who called her “eccentric, stubborn and always independent.”
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