LOS ANGELES — The Supreme Court has already overturned Roe v. Wade, but some voters will decide on issues about abortion during the upcoming election.
In California, Proposition 1 is asking voters whether they would like to change the state constitution to expressly include reproductive rights.
Mauricio Leone and Marvin Steele work for nonprofits, and each is volunteering at different events but focused on the same topic: abortion. Both men say they were motivated to get involved because of very important women in their lives.
Leone said he is stepping up to honor his late mom.
“She was very brave to keep me, and to stay pregnant and to have me. I would not be here if my mom had chosen an abortion. I believe that life is the most fundamental right. And that without life, that there are no other rights, or no other rights are meaningful,” he said.
Steele said everything he is doing, his work with a nonprofit, is for his daughter.
“I believe choice is a right. And I want to be here for my daughter and really express that sentiment to her, along with the other women in my family, and show how important women’s rights are,” he said.
Whether or not voters pass Proposition 1, there would be no effect on existing state laws. California’s Gov. Newsom signed a package of a dozen bills last month that established some of the strongest abortion protection laws in the country.