Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a bill which would expand abortion access for Arizona residents

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a bill Wednesday which would expand abortion access for Arizona residents following the state’s Supreme Court decision to uphold a near-total abortion ban earlier this month.

The bill would allow Arizona doctors to perform abortion services for Arizona residents within the state of California through the end of the calendar year.

“Arizona’s law is the first border state law that will directly impact the state of California,” Newsom said a press conference Wednesday. “And rather than just acknowledging that fate and future, we’re trying to get ahead of this law.”

Newsom said that the bill would allow health care providers in good standing in Arizona “to be able to provide that basic care to patients fleeing the state of Arizona into the state of California.”

The proposed legislation would also protect Arizona doctors who come to perform abortion services in California from enforcement in other states. Under the new bill, California law enforcement would be prohibited from engaging with other state’s law enforcement who seek to prosecute individuals under abortion bans, California state Sen. Nancy Skinner, who authored the bill, said at a press conference Wednesday.

“Our Arizona sisters can come to California to get the health care that they need, from their own doctors who they rely on, and Arizona doctors can come to California without fear of spending two to five years in prison,” Skinner said Wednesday.