San Francisco Chronicle-

Democrat Gavin Newsom called Republican rival John Cox one of the “most extreme” gubernatorial candidates in decades on the issue of abortion rights as Newsom accepted the endorsement of two pro-choice groups Thursday.

Pro-choice advocates are trying to make abortion rights an issue in the November election as the Senate prepares to consider President Trump’s nomination of appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Abortion rights groups fear Kavanaugh could create a five-justice bloc that would overturn Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion.

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