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Health and Safety Code - HSC
DIVISION 106 - PERSONAL HEALTH CARE (INCLUDING MATERNAL, CHILD, AND ADOLESCENT)
PART 2 - MATERNAL, CHILD, AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
CHAPTER 2 - Maternal Health
ARTICLE 2.5 - Reproductive Privacy Act
Section 123462.
Universal Citation: CA Health & Safety Code § 123462 (2021)
123462.
The Legislature finds and declares that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to personal reproductive decisions. Accordingly, it is the public policy of the State of California that:
(a) Every individual has the fundamental right to choose or refuse birth control.
(b) Every woman has the fundamental right to choose to bear a child or to choose and to obtain an abortion, except as specifically limited by this article.
(c) The state shall not deny or interfere with a woman’s fundamental right to choose to bear a child or to choose to obtain an abortion, except as specifically permitted by this article.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 385, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 2003.)
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