Abortion in California

Abortion in California is legal up to the point of fetal viability. An abortion ban was in place by 1900, and by 1950, it was a criminal offense for a woman to have an abortion. In 1962, the American Law Institute published their model penal code as it applied to abortions, with three circumstances where they believed a physician could justifiably perform an abortion, and California adopted a version of this code. California passed a law guaranteeing women the right to have an abortion in 2002. The California Legislature passed the Reproductive FACT (Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency) Act (AB-755) in October 2015, in response to Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) providing misleading and inaccurate information to women. The law was subsequently struck down as unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. California allows qualified non-physician health professionals, such as physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse midwives, to do first-trimester aspiration abortions, and to prescribe drugs for medical abortions. There have been a number of abortion-related cases before the California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California since 1969.
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