In December of 1997, a judge in Alameda County blocked the state of California from carrying out plans to deny prenatal care to undocumented immigrants beginning on January 1, 1998. The ruling stemmed from the filing of a lawsuit by Public Advocates on behalf of low-income undocumented pregnant women who were to be denied emergency and pre-natal care under Medi-Cal. The policy to deny the women this most basic care was originally proposed by Governor Pete Wilson in 1996, as part of his crusade to deny all government services to the undocumented. The Yvette Doe case maintained prenatal care for some 40,000 undocumented women while its appeal was pending; ultimately, newly-elected Governor, Gray Davis, signed legislation re-authorizing prenatal care for undocumented immigrants under Medi-Cal in 1999.