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Reproductive Freedom For All California Celebrates State Legislative Advancements

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, September 3, 2024Contact: [email protected]

Reproductive Freedom For All California Celebrates State Legislative Advancements

Sacramento, CA — As the 2024 California legislative session comes to a close, Reproductive Freedom For All California is celebrating the advancement of our bill package, which focuses on increasing access to reproductive health care—including abortion care—across the state with five bills that we cosponsored to expand access to abortion, labor and delivery care, and more. The passage of SB 729, a bill to expand access to IVF care, was the furthest this type of legislation has ever progressed, and it’s due in large part to our champions on the ground and in Sacramento fighting for reproductive freedom.

  • Passed off Senate Floor (AB 1895): Keeping labor and delivery wards open
  • Passed off Senate Floor (AB 2085): Streamlining the process for reproductive health clinics to open
  • Passed off Senate Floor (AB 2319): Strengthening implicit bias training to expand access to unbiased care and reduce CA’s high rates of Black maternal mortality
  • Passed off Senate Floor (AB 2490): Expanding access to treatment for pregnancy loss and miscarriage and abortion care at emergency departments across the state
  • Passed off Assembly Floor (SB 729): Expanding access to fertility and infertility care, including IVF

 

Reproductive Freedom For All States Director Caroline Mello Robertson released the following statement:

 

“The work reproductive freedom champions on the ground have done to progress this bill package continues to define what it means to be a Reproductive Freedom State. While we continue to have work to do, Reproductive Freedom for All California is thrilled to see the advancement of these bills that will increase access for people seeking abortion, access to IVF care, and reproductive health services statewide. We look forward to the continued collaboration with Governor Newsom and our champions in the legislature to get these bills signed into law.”

 

Additional background on Reproductive Freedom For All California’s 2024 sponsored bills:

  • Assembly Bill 1895 authored by Assemblymember Akilah Weber protects access to labor and delivery care, seeking to stem the tide of hospitals closing their labor and delivery wards by requiring community impact assessments and the opportunity for public input prior to any closure.
  • Assembly Bill 2085 authored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan expands access to reproductive health care by streamlining the process for reproductive health clinics to open in California.
  • Assembly Bill 2319 authored by Assemblymember Lori Wilson aims to reduce the maternal mortality rate among Black women and pregnant people by ensuring the successful implementation of the California Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act of 2019 (which Repro for All CA sponsored) and strengthening implicit bias training.
  • Assembly Bill 2490 authored by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris establishes the Reproductive Health Emergency Preparedness Program (RHEPP) to expand access to reproductive health care – including treatment of pregnancy loss and miscarriage, and abortion – in Emergency Departments across California.
  • Senate Bill 729 authored by Senator Caroline Menjivar requires large group health plans to provide coverage for fertility care, including treatment for infertility and in vitro fertilization (IVF), and ensure that LGBTQ+ couples are not unfairly excluded from coverage. (2-year bill)

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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.