Today is the last day Bills can be Amended
Call your Senator and Assembly Member!
Send a postcard to the Governor! 
AND Get ALL your friends and family to do the same!

August 25, 2022 Update:  All legislative bills that made it to the Assembly and Senate floors can be voted on today or next Monday thru Wednesday.  Today is the last day bills can be amended.  SB 1479, SB 1419 and AB 2098 have all been amended for better or worse (see details below).  A Voice for Choice Advocacy also anticipates SB 866, the vaccine minor consent bill, will be amended today.  AVFCA believes the votes on SB 866 are very close and that Senator Wiener may not have the votes to pass the bill in it's current form.  As I have said since June, if Senator Wiener doesn't have the votes he is going to amend the bill further rather than let it die - he is too passionate and too obstinate not to.  The organizations behind the pro-side have also had a huge push in the past two weeks advocating for the bill, including an opinion piece in the LA Times supporting the bill (https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-19/vaccines-teenagers-consent-vaccination-sb866).  The California Medical Association and Protect Us Now (Senator Pan's organization) are behind many of these bills and heavily lobbying legislators.  A Voice for Choice Advocacy firmly opposes SB 866, but have requested amendments, so if the bill is amended, it is amended to protect our children.  To note: Senator Wiener has not accepted any of our amendments.  Watch my video from June for more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWfce2pqjY8

All bills that are passed by full Senate and the full Assembly by midnight on August, 31, 2022 are thereby sent to Governor Newsom's desk for him to sign or veto.  While A Voice for Choice Advocacy's Legislative team and lobbyists continue to communicate with legislative offices on a daily basis, YOUR voice as a constituent is extremely powerful.  Please keep calling your Assembly Member and your local State Senator.  If you haven't already, be sure to send a postcard to the Governor through AVFCA's Postcard Campaign.  Share this email and our posts on your social media encouraging your friends and family to do the same.  Details below... 

SB 866 and SB 1419 are on the Assembly floor and AB 2098 and AB 1797 are on the Senate floor.  SB 1479, which has been watered down considerably, is on its way to the Governor's desk. 

TAKE ACTION THIS WEEK

1) KEEP CALLING YOUR DISTRICT ASSEMBLY MEMBER AND YOUR SENATOR:  https://avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/action-alert-5-bad-bills-on-floor-call-legislators/

a) If you don't know who they are, find your State Senator and Assembly Member by putting your address into this locator (https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/). 

b) Then find your Senator's contact information here: https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators and call both their Capitol office and their District office(s) asking them to oppose AB 2098 and AB 1797.
Sample Script: "I am a constituent.  I am calling to ask the Senator to vote No or Abstain on AB 1797, Assembly Weber’s Immunization Registry bill, and AB 2098, Assembly Member Low’s COVID misinformation/disinformation bill, when they are voted on on the Senate Floor.”
If you wish to share more details on why:
AB 1797 – Will require all vaccinations for all Californians to be entered into the California Immunization Registry, with no way for private consumers to opt out.  This is the first step to vaccine passports and discriminating people based on their vaccine status.
AB 2098 – The CA Medical Board already has the ability to discipline doctors for giving misinformation or disinformation to patients in their office.  This bill is duplicative and unnecessary.   There is no "standard of care" or "contemporary scientific consensus" on COVID-19.  The CA Medical Board does not currently support this bill. (Was recently amended to again include "standard or care" wording)

c) Then find your Assembly Member's contact information here: https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers and call both their Capitol office and their District office(s) asking them to oppose SB 866 and SB 1419.
Sample Script: "I am a constituent.  I am calling to ask the Assembly member to vote No or Abstain on SB 866, Senator Wiener’s Vaccine Minor Consent Law, and SB 1419, Senator Becker’s medical privacy bill when they are voted on on the Assembly Floor.”
If you wish to share more details on why:
SB 866 – Will create an environment where pharmaceutical companies can coerce teens into getting vaccines with incentives and bribes.  It does not account for special needs teens who are not capable of making informed medical decisions on their own. (Anticipate amendments similar to those made to SB 1419, to exclude those who do not have the capacity to make medical decisions)
SB 1419 – Would force parents to go to court to get their children’s medical records in times of emergency, potentially causing delayed medical care, or in times of death. (Was amended that parents of minors who do not have the capacity to make medical decisions, can access their minors medical records) 

2) SEND A POSTCARD TO GOVERNOR NEWSOM:    https://avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/avfca-governor-postcard-campaign/

a) Go to: https://avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/avfca-governor-postcard-campaign/

b) Complete the form, including uploading an image for the front of your postcard (if desired) and a message for the back of your postcard

c) Repeat for any other family members (children included) who want the Governor to Veto these bills

3) SHARE! SHARE! SHARE! GET YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO DO THE SAME:

Please share this email with friends and family, as well as on social media so we can get as many people as possible to call and send postcards.  If every person gets just 10 other people to take action we would have tens of thousands of calls and postcards.  AVFCA can't do this without you! 

Call legislators:  https://avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/action-alert-5-bad-bills-on-floor-call-legislators/

Send postcards:  https://avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/avfca-governor-postcard-campaign/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/ChnRTVFvSFU/
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Twitter:  AVFCA is not on Twitter, so please use this tweet - Action Alert: TODAY Send #Postcards to Governor Newsom asking him to VETO CA’s #BadBills https://avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/avfca-governor-postcard-campaign/

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C

Christina Hildebrand
President/Founder
A Voice for Choice Advocacy, Inc.
[email protected]
www.AVoiceForChoiceAdvocacy.org