Contact elected officials
A state law may be passed by either a direct vote of the people or by the California Legislature, which is composed of the Assembly and state Senate.
California is divided into 40 state Senate districts and 80 state Assembly districts and each district has an elected representative. To find out who your state Assembly and state Senate representatives are (and this may change after an election), visit the legislature’s Find Your Rep page. (Then save their info in your contacts so you can easily call them!)
You have the power to vote for your representatives or their opponents every election, so your state senator and assemblyman will consider your opinion. Let your representatives know if you have strong feelings about a bill.
It’s also important to track your city council, school board, and county board of supervisors. They have the power to allow new abortion facilities to open in your neighborhoods and allow pro-abortion representatives into the schools. You can find contact information for these elected officials on your city, school district, and county websites.
You can visit your representatives’ offices, write them letters, call them, or email them. The representatives recognize how much effort you put into contacting them, so an in-person visit is worth the most, while an email is worth the least - but it is worth more than no contact at all.
If you call a state representative about a bill, the phone will be answered by a staff person and you need only say, “Hello, I’m calling to ask the Senator [or Assemblyman] to vote no on [bill number].” The staff person may ask a few questions and will then thank you for your call. That’s it, but your position will be noted and tallied.
Members of the state Assembly and state Senate introduce bills that they would like to make laws. If an Assemblyman introduces a bill, it must be voted on and passed by various Assembly committees before the whole Assembly votes on it. If it is passed, the bill is then passed over to the state Senate, where it again must be voted on and passed by various committees before being voted on by the whole Senate. If it passes the Senate, then it becomes law, unless the governor vetoes it.
If a bill is introduced in the Senate, it starts with the Senate committees and the Senate floor vote before being passed to the Assembly committees and Assembly floor vote.
The pro-abortion and anti-life bills being considered by the California state legislature during the 2025-2026 legislative session include:
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(The letters “AB” or “SB” at the beginning of a bill’s name refer to whether it started in the assembly or senate: assembly bill or senate bill.)​​
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AB 40 would amend the Health and Safety code to require emergency rooms to perform abortions as an “emergency service.”
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AB 45 would prohibit geofencing of abortion clinics, prohibit abortion clinics from releasing patient information in response to subpoenas seeking to enforce abortion restrictions, and would allow a doctor to prescribe abortion drugs without listing his name on the label as the prescribing physician.
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AB 54 would give legal immunity to suppliers of abortion drugs.
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AB 67 would authorize the Attorney General to investigate and sue for $25,000 anyone who “appears” to have violated or be about to violate the Reproductive Privacy Act, which forbids a government entity to “interfere with” a woman’s choice to have an abortion.
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AB 260 would delete a currently unenforced law requiring parental notification before a minor’s abortion, remove penalties for aiding a “criminal abortion,” and remove manufacturing and labeling requirements for abortion drugs.​
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AB 302 would prohibit California abortion clinics from honoring other state’s subpoenas seeking medical information related to abortions.
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AB 547 would give a tax credit of up to $5000 to those who pay for IVF procedures.
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AB 551 would award grants to train and equip hospital emergency departments and other health facilities to do abortions.
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AB 1500 would require the state health department to frequently update the government abortion website and to run a public awareness campaign about the website’s existence.
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SB 403 would expand legal assisted suicide by eliminating the existing law’s current sunset date.
If you would like to see the status of a bill, visit the site for California legislation information.
If you would like to contact the committees, rather than individual legislators, some committees allow you to submit your comments by fax, email, or regular mail. Visit the California State Assembly or California State Senate website, go to the committees tab to find the committee that is holding the hearing, and then follow that committee’s instructions for comments.
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If you would like to submit a letter of opposition or support for a bill before a committee hearing, visit the California Legislature Position Letter Portal. The deadline for the letter to be included in the analysis considered by the committee is usually a week before the committee hearing date.
You can read more about how a bill becomes law at the state Senate’s Legislative Process webpage.