California may be broke — but Gavin Newsom and the Democrats will always find money for abortion.
On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill directing $90 million in public funds to Planned Parenthood, ostensibly to make up for federal funding cuts. (Given how important abortion is to liberal elites, one would think they could raise the money privately.)
Newsom’s abortion bailout takes place in the middle of California’s fourth budget deficit in a row, with lawmakers openly acknowledging a deep and persistent shortfall.
Numbers vary depending on who presents them, but the direction is unmistakable.
Supporters of the Planned Parenthood rescue argue that it was urgently necessary. Clinics had closed. Access to “reproductive health care,” they said, was shrinking. California, they argued, had no choice.
But this was never about a funding emergency. In truth, it was about priorities.
In January, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Trump administration over a reported $10 billion freeze on federal funds for social services. The lawsuit warned of real harm. Programs would be strained. Vulnerable populations would be at risk. California, Bonta argued, couldn’t absorb such a blow.
And yet, only weeks later, Sacramento found $90 million. Not for foster care systems already stretched thin. Not for wildfire prevention ahead of another brutal season. Not for water storage, infrastructure repairs, or relief for families struggling with rent, fuel, and food.
The money was found for abortion services, declared so essential that no fiscal restraint could touch them.
Newsom’s record leaves little ambiguity. In October, heannounced more than $140 millionin emergency state “investment” to prop up Planned Parenthood, keeping more than 100 clinics open after federal cuts — even as California staggered through another red ink cycle.
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