Councilmembers voted to declare that 'anyone should have the right to abortion, on-demand and without question.'
The resolution is in response to the potential that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, which was decided in 1973 and made abortion legal in the U.S. Two weeks ago, a leak by the high court suggested it was going to overturn the landmark decision.
"This is a right to our democracy," said City Council President Pro Tempore Sheng Thao, the chief sponsor of the resolution and an Oakland mayoral candidate, at a news conference Tuesday morning in front of City Hall."More women will die" if abortion is illegal, she said. Thao said the issue is personal for her, because when she was raising her son, she used the health care and family planning resources at Planned Parenthood.
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