Abortion measure brings a hint of uncertainty to California's midterms

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Abortion is legal here until a fetus is determined to be "viable" - able to survive outside the womb - and after that with medical approval.
49% : Bischof is 64 and retired from a Fortune 500 company, the father of three sons, whose chief concerns are protecting Second Amendment rights, improving the economy and reducing the size of government.
48% : Newsom has been picking political fights with Republican governors to heighten his national appeal, and in doing so, has made abortion virtually the centerpiece of his reelection campaign.
46% :Those pushing for the measure say it will add a necessary level of protection by specifically naming abortion as a protected right, citing the Supreme Court ruling as an example of the ease with which a law rather than explicit constitutional guarantees can be overturned.
43% :Proponents say the additional constitutional protection preserves the right of lawmakers and state courts to regulate abortion - addressing, if needed, some of the more extreme hypotheticals that opponents raise.
41% : This year, though, the race between a first-term Republican and the same Democratic challenger he narrowly defeated two years ago is also a prime test of California's activist approach on the resurgent issue of abortion after the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
41% : "What Dobbs did was kick abortion down to a more general category of rights that no longer needed that high standard," said Cary Franklin, director of the Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law.
40% : Abortion is a subject he has largely avoided.
38% : But immediately after the Dobbs opinion was issued, Garcia released a statement emphasizing that the court had placed the issue in states' hands."As Californians, even after this ruling, you will continue to live under the same laws and access to abortion," the statement said.

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