Hospitals play a critical role in making abortion accessible for California women.
They serve women in rural counties where there are no clinics. They can take patients with prior medical conditions who can't be seen at clinics. Hospitals also train doctors, ensuring that medical care will continue to be available in the years to come. Most hospitals in California don't provide abortions. This leaves particularly vulnerable women rural women, women with medical complications, immigrant women, and low-income women with no place to turn when they seek comprehensive reproductive health care.