California AB54 ensures safe abortion care access by protecting medication abortion rights and providers.
California AB54, known as the Access to Safe Abortion Care Act, reaffirms the legality of medication abortion in California. The bill protects individuals and providers from liability for accessing, mailing, shipping, receiving, transporting, distributing, dispensing, or administering mifepristone or misoprostol for lawful medication abortions. It emphasizes the safety and effectiveness of medication abortion, which has a low risk of major complications and a mortality rate lower than that of carrying a pregnancy to term.
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