{"id":13935,"date":"2022-11-05T19:07:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T02:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=13935"},"modified":"2022-11-05T19:07:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T02:07:38","slug":"newsom-granted-posthumous-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/newsom-granted-posthumous-pardon\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom grants posthumous pardon to woman who provided safe abortions in the 1930s and '40s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This Friday, the governor Gavin Newsom<\/a> granted a posthumous pardon to Laura Miner, a courageous reproductive health care provider in California from 1934 to 1948 who dedicated her career to providing safe and accessible elective abortions at a time when punitive restrictions forced women to seek unregulated and often medically risky abortions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miner was respected in the medical community as a highly skilled practitioner and cared for patients in need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1949, Miner was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison on felony charges of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cIn California, we will never return to a time when women were forced to seek basic medical care in back rooms and underground clinics,\u201d Newsom said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLaura Miner\u2019s story is a powerful reminder of the generations of people who fought for reproductive freedom in this country and the risks so many Americans now face in a post-Roe world. Miner paid a price for taking a stand, and today we are taking a step to right this injustice and reaffirm California\u2019s commitment to uphold the hard-won progress made by countless advocates and health care providers over decades,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her part, the governor's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, pointed out that this pardon is a reaffirmation of California's commitment to defend reproductive rights and protect those who seek or provide abortion services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a woman and a mother, I am so grateful for Laura Miner\u2019s courage and dedication to providing women with safe reproductive care in the face of tremendous personal risk. Now, more than 70 years after Ms. Miner was wrongfully convicted, we must channel her strength and determination as we fight to protect and ensure in the U.S. a woman\u2019s basic right to make decisions about her own body and her future,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Senate President Pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins, \u201cLaura Miner was a hero ahead of her time who willingly gave up her own freedom to save countless women, women who risked everything to make their own health care decisions and, in a very basic sense, choose their own futures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that regard, she stressed that \u201cLaura\u2019s bravery deserved to be praised, not prosecuted, and I am grateful that we have evolved enough to be able to forgive her today. Laura\u2019s story of subversive care eerily foreshadows what we may see when courts and legislatures across the country roll back our reproductive rights. We remember her and the generations of women who had no choice but to seek care in the shadows, as we continue the work to ensure that California is a beacon of reproductive justice and access for all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Governor Newsom and the Legislature took steps to advance reproductive freedom with new measures to further protect patients and providers from legal retaliation, assist women in other states seeking abortion services, and expand reproductive health care access and affordability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In turn, legislative measures have been signed to ensure that pregnancy loss is not criminalized, safeguard the privacy of medical records, and prohibit law enforcement and corporations from cooperating with entities from other states regarding legal abortions in California, among many other actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be interested in: Immigrant women in the US have the least access to prenatal care: study<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Este viernes, el gobernador Gavin Newsom otorg\u00f3 indulto p\u00f3stumo a Laura Miner, una valiente proveedora de servicios de salud reproductiva en California de 1934 a 1948, y quien dedic\u00f3 su carrera a proporcionar abortos electivos seguros y accesibles en un momento en que las restricciones punitivas obligaban a las mujeres a buscar abortos no regulados […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13938,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935\/revisions\/13938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}