Gavin Newsom has a sick obsession. It is the foundation upon which his entire governing philosophy rests, the animating principle behind all that he does.
It is a philosophy of death: He is driven to do everything within his power to bring about the murdering of unborn children. This desire for death extends far beyond ensuring that young Californians can be killed up to the moment of birth. It reaches the point that he actively seeks to increase the number of out-of-state killings — even if his tactics violate the Constitution.
And now, the governor has a new method to enable the large-scale slaughter of unborn children outside his own state’s boundaries. He will aid and abet criminal doctors trafficking in the murder of babies by allowing them to leave off their identifying information from the abortion drugs they ship nationwide en masse. On Friday, he signed a law that will allow abortion pills to be dispensed without the name of the doctor who prescribed it, the person who receives it, or the pharmacy where the medication comes from.
A pipeline of untraceable drugs that stop unborn children’s beating hearts will now flow freely from California. We will not know who is responsible for this illegal drug trade, only that Gavin Newsom has chosen to enable this criminal activity, so determined is he that these actors kill more and more babies.
In one sense, Newsom’s new law is a tacit admission that so-called “shield laws,” which purport to protect doctors who illegally ship abortion drugs out of state, are unconstitutional and will not hold up.
Such laws, including several in California signed by Newsom, claim to protect from extraditions and lawsuits those who kill unborn children in places where this is outlawed. But these laws clearly violate the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Extradition Clause of the Constitution, because they do not give “full faith and credit” to other states’ judicial proceedings. And they violate the Extradition Clause as well, because they claim to prevent the extradition of persons to the states where they are accused of committing crimes. As a number of state attorneys general put it, shield laws “are blatant attempts to interfere with States’ ability to enforce criminal laws within their borders and disrupt our constitutional structure.”
This new law will allow Newsom to hide these rings of unborn child killers from justice and responsibility. Thus, the new law is a declaration that, even if the Supreme Court holds that California must give “full faith and credit” to other states’ judicial proceedings, California won’t care and will instead build up covert networks that are enabled to kill more and more.
Lawsuits Begin to Challenge Shield Laws
Newsom’s law comes as several lawsuits and criminal prosecutions are challenging shield laws. In one case, an abortion doctor, Maggie Carpenter, is facing prosecution in Louisiana. Carpenter is accused of providing a Louisiana woman with abortion pills that she used to force her teenage daughter to have an abortion. In another case that could very well go to the Supreme Court, Carpenter is accused of providing abortion pills to a Texas woman. In that instance, she has been ordered by a Texas judge to pay more than $100,000, but New York is refusing to honor that judgement.
Another avenue for getting around “shield laws” is federal court lawsuits. In one case, a woman is suing the father of her child and the doctor who provided him with abortion pills. She claims the father of her child laced her hot chocolate with the abortion pills. (READ MORE: The Unspeakable Evil of Christopher Cooprider)
These cases point out that the free flow of mail-order abortion drugs enables any unhappy father to lace his girlfriend’s food or drink in order to abort his baby. And, with Newsom’s new law allowing pharmacies, doctors, and the person who ordered the abortion pill to be anonymous, forced abortions can occur without a trace.
For Newsom, Abortion Is Everything
This is why abortion is the center of his Newsom’s purpose and governing philosophy: He is so dedicated to killing unborn children that it motivates him to disregard the laws of sovereign states and the rules of our federal system. For no other purpose (perhaps other than same-sex marriage) would Newsom intervene to this extent, to this point of undermining our constitutional system of government.
Newsom has a long history of total dedication to the killing of unborn children. One of his first moves as governor was to pour an additional $50 million into “reproductive health.” And, two days after the draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leaked, showing that the Supreme Court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, Newsom delivered a headline-drawing speech at a Planned Parenthood clinic in which he sought to present himself as the leader of the Democratic Party on abortion, as someone who would fight tooth and nail to ensure women across the nation could abort their children.
“Where the hell is my party? Where’s the Democratic Party?” he asked. “You guys paying attention to what’s going on? Why aren’t we standing up more firmly, more resolutely?”
On the very day that the Dobbs decision came out, Newsom affixed his signature to a “shield law” that claimed to protect “those in California from civil liability for providing, aiding, or receiving abortion care in the state.” That year, he also dedicated $200 million in the state budget for “reproductive care.” He then launched a state government website to help out-of-state women obtain abortions in California. He even paid to put up billboards in red states advertising California’s promise to abort any unwanted children. Further, he signed a package of bills that claimed to keep people from being criminally liable for an abortion, sought to keep medical records concealed from out-of-state subpoenas, and purported to prohibit cooperation with out-of-state entities regarding abortions. Voters also passed an amendment to California’s constitution he supported that promised that anyone could abort their baby for any reason up to the moment of birth.
Newsom continued his abortion-obsessed efforts by building up an “emergency stockpile” of two million misoprostol pills, the abortion drug that expels the child from a woman’s uterus. Further, he launched the “Reproductive Freedom Alliance,” a coalition of governors fighting for abortion. He called his coalition a “moral obligation to what is right” and “a firewall to fight for and protect providers, patients, and all who are affected by these attacks on fundamental rights.”
In other words, Newsom has made defending abortion his foremost moral obligation and governing priority. His effort to conceal from the law criminal actors funneling abortion pills is a further extreme manifestation of his commitment.
California is not the only state to recently pass a law allowing abortion doctors to ship abortion drugs out of state anonymously. Colorado, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington recently passed laws that allow doctors to send abortion pills with only the name of their practice rather than their individual name. But a majority of abortion drug–dispensing rings use California pharmacies to obtain their medications, and California’s laws on pharmaceutical drugs require the names of prescribers to be included on medications (for the sake of safety and accountability). Thus, until Newsom signed this law, abortion doctors trafficking pills in these states could not truly remain anonymous.
Newsom’s Abortion Future
Gavin Newsom’s track record of brazen and unconstitutional efforts to undermine other states’ bans on abortions suggests that, if he was elected president, he would push to force red states to allow abortions up to the point of birth.
On Friday, after signing his new law, Newsom said on X, “Our defense of these fundamental rights is unshakeable.” This kind of absolutist language communicates his conviction that abortion must be preserved across the nation.
While the Senate filibuster would currently prevent a Democratic Congress from codifying Roe into law, there’s no knowing if this barrier would really be able to restrain a President Gavin Newsom.
Ellie Gardey Holmes is the author of Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power.
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