Nurse practitioners, midwives and PAs may perform abortions past the first trimester
Nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives and physician assistants authorized to perform abortions are no longer limited to the first trimester or to medication and aspiration methods. Nurse practitioners and midwives doing later procedural abortions must keep written plans for handing care to a physician.
Who it affects
Nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, physician assistants and abortion patients
When
This law takes effect on January 1, 2027. California laws take effect on January 1 of the year after they are signed, unless the law says otherwise.
- : Signed into law
- : This law takes effect
Official text
California AB 1973: Abortion: authorized procedures.
On California Legislative Information. The official text is what counts; read it before you act.
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