Governor Newsom continues to stay on the offensive when it comes
to abortion, trying to ensure access while also capitalizing on a potent campaign
issue.

The governor has launched another ad campaign, this time in the
state of Alabama, and tomorrow will unveil legislation aimed at Arizona.

The governor has been unrelenting both in his criticism of red state
governors and abortion bans, and his expansion of access to abortion in
California. This latest TV commercial is aimed at Alabama, where Republican
lawmakers are trying to make it a crime to help a minor go to another state for an
abortion.

It’s a pretty hard-hitting spot, with an Alabama highway patrol officer
pulling over a car just before crossing the state line, making the teenager inside
step out to take a pregnancy test and handcuffing the woman behind the wheel.

Meanwhile, tomorrow, Newsom will hold a news conference in Sacramento to
announce a bill that would let abortion providers from Arizona come to California
to perform abortions, granting them expedited licensing, to accommodate the
flood of women California anticipates if and when Arizona’s 1864 ban is allowed
to go into effect, as that state’s Supreme Court has ruled it should.

For more on this, KCBS Radio's Doug Sovern spoke with anchors Bret Burkhart and Patti Reising.