California Democrats New Bill and the PILL
 

LOS ANGELES – Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill during a visit to a Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clinic that allows nurses to dispense birth control, making it easier for women to get contraceptives. Brown, a Democrat, was joined by women's health advocates who cheered the singing of the bill.


The bill, authored by Democratic Assemblywoman Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, was passed by lawmakers in August. It allows registered nurses, nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives to dispense the pill, patches and rings


Republican Sen. Joel Anderson opposed it, saying nurses should have trained to become physicians if they wanted to dispense medications.