page_title: Abortion in California
section_title: Anti-abortion activities and views
hierarchical_section_title: Abortion in California / Anti-abortion activities and views
caption_attribution_description: English: A yard with a "Yes on Proposition 8" sign and a "Yes on Proposition 4" sign, near Santee, California.
context_page_description: Abortion in California is legal. 57% of adults said in a poll by the Pew Research Center that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. 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 have an abortion in 2002 if their lives were at risk. The California Legislature passed the Reproductive FACT Act in October 2015 in response to Crisis Pregnancy Centers providing misleading and inaccurate information to women. California allow qualified non-physician health professionals, such as physicians' assistants, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse midwives, to do first-trimester aspiration abortions and to prescribe drugs for medical abortions by 2017. There have been a number of abortion related cases before the California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal and the U.S.
caption: A yard with a "Yes on Proposition 8" sign and a "Yes on Proposition 4" sign, near Santee, California in 2008.
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