If this is the law and issue I think it is, then it's in response to the CA Supreme Court's decision that you may be able to pick and choose which *medical procedures* you can perform in good conscience, but you CAN'T pick and choose which *people* to offer them to.
Which I suspect means that any law short of an amendment to the state Constitution will face a reasonable likelihood of immediate challenge, and quite possibly the prospect of being struck down as unconstitutional. This may well be more about symbols and posturing, than about actually changing medical practice in California. That doesn't excuse its passage at all, if it should do so; but it means that even a clear majority vote (if it were to get one) would not be the last word on the issue.
I would bet that this is primarily about motivating dispirited conservative voters in Republican districts, voters who are not thrilled with McCain and so might sit out (thus depriving Republican legislators of some part of their voter-base). I'm not basing that on anything other than tactics and history, though. Creating this kind of hot-button issue for conservative voters is good politics, and it's been done successfully in the past.
Just as certain, though certainly not all, proposals on homosexual marriage and universal health-care can be seen as efforts to mobilize liberal voters.
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Which I suspect means that any law short of an amendment to the state Constitution will face a reasonable likelihood of immediate challenge, and quite possibly the prospect of being struck down as unconstitutional. This may well be more about symbols and posturing, than about actually changing medical practice in California. That doesn't excuse its passage at all, if it should do so; but it means that even a clear majority vote (if it were to get one) would not be the last word on the issue.
I would bet that this is primarily about motivating dispirited conservative voters in Republican districts, voters who are not thrilled with McCain and so might sit out (thus depriving Republican legislators of some part of their voter-base). I'm not basing that on anything other than tactics and history, though. Creating this kind of hot-button issue for conservative voters is good politics, and it's been done successfully in the past.
Just as certain, though certainly not all, proposals on homosexual marriage and universal health-care can be seen as efforts to mobilize liberal voters.