加州总检察长 Bonta 加入23名总检察长联盟提交法庭之友意见：反对联邦新规大幅收紧退伍军人堕胎护理
位于加州奥克兰的加州总检察长办公室11月9日发布消息说，总检察长 Rob Bonta 已加入由23名总检察长组成的联盟，向美国联邦巡回上诉法院提交法庭之友意见，支持原告挑战特朗普政府一项新的联邦规则，该规则将大幅取消退伍军人及其家属获得堕胎护理的渠道。此案为 Minority Veterans of America 诉退伍军人事务部长案。
联盟在意见中主张，美国退伍军人事务部（VA）的这项规则将使90%此前符合资格的患者失去堕胎护理，危及退伍军人及其家属的健康与福祉，给医疗提供者造成危险的困惑，并把沉重的医疗费用转嫁给各州。
Bonta 说：「特朗普政府再次背弃对退伍军人的基本承诺，限制他们获得医疗护理，明知会让为国家作出巨大牺牲的人面临可预防的伤害。」他敦促法院裁定该规则违法。
总检察长办公室介绍，VA 于2025年12月敲定该规则，推翻了2022年拜登政府时期确立的保护：此前在患者自述强奸或乱伦、或怀孕威胁患者健康的情况下，退伍军人及其遗属、受抚养人可获得堕胎护理，在所有情况下均可获得堕胎咨询。办公室称，2022年规则实施第一年，经 VA 获得堕胎护理的患者中，73%的怀孕威胁到健康，17%为强奸幸存者，10%面临危及生命的怀孕。
加州近期已通过 AB 2531 法案（Irwin 提出，2026年），允许 Medi-Cal 提供者申请拨款，为没有保险、或保险不涵盖堕胎与避孕护理的退伍军人免费提供相关护理。
联盟在意见中还提出：限制医疗上必要的堕胎护理对怀孕风险较高的退伍军人尤其危险；新规未对退伍军人本人明确写入挽救生命的例外，可能使提供者因担心执照与法律后果而延误急救；新规比多数州的堕胎禁令更严，也偏离联邦急救医疗标准；取消堕胎咨询损害知情同意与患者自主；把费用转嫁给各州的 Medicaid 计划与生殖医疗安全网。
与 Bonta 共同提交意见的还有马萨诸塞州、亚利桑那州、科罗拉多州、康涅狄格州、特拉华州、哥伦比亚特区、夏威夷州、伊利诺伊州、缅因州、马里兰州、密歇根州、明尼苏达州、内华达州、新泽西州、新墨西哥州、纽约州、北卡罗来纳州、俄勒冈州、罗德岛州、佛蒙特州、弗吉尼亚州与华盛顿州的总检察长。
（来源：加州总检察长办公室）
California AG Bonta Joins 23-State Coalition Amicus Brief Challenging VA Rule That Would Cut Abortion Care for Veterans
California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in support of plaintiffs challenging the Trump Administration's new federal rule that would eliminate veterans' and their families' access to abortion care, his office announced in Oakland on November 9. The case is Minority Veterans of America v. Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
In the brief, the coalition argues that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rule would deny abortion care to 90% of previously eligible patients, jeopardizes the health and wellbeing of veterans and their families, creates dangerous confusion for healthcare providers, and shifts burdensome healthcare costs onto states.
'The Trump Administration is once again breaking a fundamental promise to our veterans by restricting access to healthcare and knowingly exposing those who have sacrificed so much for our country to preventable harms,' Attorney General Bonta said. He urged the court to hold the rule unlawful.
In December 2025, the VA finalized the rule reversing protections established in 2022 that permitted abortion care for veterans and their survivors and dependents in cases of self-reported rape or incest, or when a pregnancy threatened a patient's health, as well as abortion counseling in all cases. In the first year of the 2022 rule, 73% of patients who received abortion care through the VA experienced pregnancies that threatened their health, 17% were survivors of rape, and 10% faced life-threatening pregnancies, the office said.
California recently enacted AB 2531 (Irwin, 2026), which allows Medi-Cal providers to apply for grants to offer abortion and contraceptive care, at no cost, to uninsured veterans or veterans who do not have health coverage that includes abortion and contraception.
The coalition further argues that restricting medically necessary care is particularly dangerous for veterans facing heightened pregnancy risks; that the rule's lack of an explicit life-saving exception for veterans themselves may cause providers to delay emergency treatment; that it is more restrictive than most state abortion bans and departs from federal emergency care standards including EMTALA; that eliminating abortion counseling undermines informed consent; and that it shifts costs onto states' Medicaid programs and reproductive healthcare safety nets.
In filing the brief, Bonta joins the attorneys general of Massachusetts, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawai'i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.
(Source: Office of the California Attorney General)
来源：加州总检察长办公室
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图片来源：图：加州总检察长 Rob Bonta 2023年与学生交流（资料图）。加州总检察长办公室摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: California Attorney General Rob Bonta with students in 2023 (file photo). Photo by the Attorney General of California, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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