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Cite as:  585 U. S. ____ (2018) 

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Opinion of the Court 

fers  to  provide  prenatal  sonography,  pregnancy  tests,
or pregnancy options counseling. 

“(5) The facility offers abortion services. 

“(6)  The  facility  has  staff  or  volunteers  who  collect
health information from clients.”  Ibid. 

The FACT Act exempts several categories of clinics that
would  otherwise  qualify  as  licensed  covered  facilities. 
Clinics operated by the United States or a federal agency 
are  excluded,  as  are  clinics  that  are  “enrolled  as  a  Medi-
Cal  provider”  and  participate  in  “the  Family  Planning,
Access,  Care,  and  Treatment  Program”  (Family  PACT
program).  §123471(c).  To participate in the Family PACT 
program,  a  clinic  must  provide  “the  full  scope  of  family 
planning  . . .  services  specified  for  the  program,”  Cal. 
Welf.  &  Inst.  Code  Ann.  §24005(c)  (West  2018),  including 
pills,
sterilization 
§§24007(a)(1), (2). 

contraceptive 

emergency 

and 

If  a  clinic  is  a  licensed  covered  facility,  the  FACT  Act 
requires it to disseminate a government-drafted notice on 
site.  Cal. Health & Safety Code Ann. §123472(a)(1).  The 
notice  states  that  “California  has  public  programs  that 
provide  immediate  free  or  low-cost  access  to  comprehen-
sive family planning services (including all FDA-approved
methods of contraception), prenatal care, and abortion for
eligible  women.  To  determine  whether  you  qualify,  con-
tact  the  county  social  services  office  at  [insert  the  tele-
phone number].”  Ibid.  This notice must be posted in the
waiting  room,  printed  and  distributed  to  all  clients,  or 
provided  digitally  at  check-in.    §123472(a)(2).  The  notice 
must  be  in  English  and  any  additional  languages  identi-
In  some  counties,  that 
fied  by  state  law.  §123472(a). 
means  the  notice  must  be  spelled  out  in  13  different  lan-
guages.  See State of  Cal., Dept.  of Health Care Services, 
Frequency  of  Threshold  Language  Speakers  in  the  Medi-