Pro-Life Attorney Warns of California’s ‘Abortion Apocalypse’ in Wave of New Legislation

According to Susan Swift Arnall, vice president of legal affairs for Right to Life League, an avalanche of new legislation in California will put into motion what she calls an “abortion apocalypse” that will be fully funded by the taxpayers.

New California Abortion Laws

The bills listed below were signed into law by California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 27, 2022:

AB 1375: Reduces doctor oversight and standardized procedures for abortions. AB 657: Fast-tracks abortion licenses for health care officials coming to California to provide abortions. SB 1245: Funds abortion access in Los Angeles County. AB 2626: Prohibits specified medical licensing boards from suspending or revoking a license from a provider for performing an abortion if the abortion was in accordance with the Medical Practice Act and the Reproductive Privacy Act. AB 1918: Establishes the California Reproductive Health Service Corps, which will provide education and training to newly recruited abortion and reproductive health care workers in exchange for a three-year commitment by the trainees to work for the state to provide abortions and other reproductive services in “underserved areas.” AB 2586: Awards funding grants to community organizations for comprehensive reproductive and sexual education, including information about abortion access. AB 2091: Prohibits health care providers from sharing medical information regarding an out-of-state individual, even minors without the knowledge or consent of their parents, seeking an abortion in California. AB 2134: Establishes the California Reproductive Health Equity Program, which provides grants to providers to cover the cost of abortion procedures and contraception for low-income clients. SB 523: Expands birth control access regardless of insurance status by requiring health plans to cover certain over-the-counter birth control without cost sharing. It also prohibits employment discrimination based on reproductive health decisions by making “reproductive health decision making” a new civil rights category. AB 2223: Blocks investigation of fetal death