In California, abortion could become a constitutional right. So could birth control.

Sacramento — Californians will decide in November whether to lock the right to abortion into the state constitution.

If they vote "yes" on Proposition 1, they will also lock in a right that has gotten less attention: the right to birth control.

Should the measure succeed, California would become one of the first states — if not the first — to create explicit constitutional rights to both abortion and contraception.