California has launched a new strategy to expand abortion. Life Legal is fighting back.

California has become the nation’s laboratory for the most aggressive and dangerous abortion policies in America—laws that remove oversight, protect abortionists, and spread quickly to other states. SB 245 is a cornerstone of that agenda.

That’s why Life Legal is taking California to court. SB 245, the so-called “Abortion Accessibility Act,” forces every health-insurance plan to waive all deductibles, copays, or cost-sharing for abortion – and only abortion. Women who choose life still have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for medical care, while women who choose abortion don’t have to pay a dime. 

We have now filed our opening brief challenging SB 245, which you can read here.

Ironically, twelve years ago the state specifically told insurance companies that declined to pay for abortion that, under the California Constitution, “all health plans must treat maternity services and legal abortion neutrally.” But that was then and this is now. Now California politicians want to boast that California leads the nation in promoting “reproductive choice.” 

Our legal challenge to SB 245 is critical—not only for California women and babies, but for every state watching to see how far abortion can be advanced under the guise of “access.”

If California succeeds in normalizing laws favoring abortion over childbirth, others will follow. But if we prevail, we can stop this dangerous precedent in its tracks—before women who choose life become second-class citizens.