Newsom wants to spend millions on the health of low-income mothers and their babies
Newsom, a self-described feminist and the father of four young children, has long advocated family-friendly health and economic policies. Flush with a projected budget surplus of $75.7 billion, state politicians have come up with myriad legislative and budget proposals to make poorer families healthier and wealthier.
Flush with a projected budget surplus of $75.7 billion, state politicians have come up with myriad legislative proposals to make poorer families healthier and wealthier.
They include ending sales taxes on menstrual products and diapers; adding benefits such as doulas and early childhood trauma screenings to Medi-Cal, the state s Medicaid program; allowing pregnant women to retain Medi-Cal coverage for a year after giving birth; and a pilot program to provide a universal basic income to low-income new parents.
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Activists outside the Supreme Court in January voiced their support for abortion rights nationwide.
A bill that would require the promotion of an unproven practice to reverse a medication abortion advanced out of a state Senate committee on Wednesday. It’s one of three anti-abortion bills facing a final vote on the Senate floor in Baton Rouge in order to pass the legislature.
But the bill advanced out of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee with an amendment that would block it from taking immediate effect if it becomes law.
Under the original bill,
HB 578, authored by Houma Republican Rep. Beryl Amedee, physicians and the health department would be