Assembly Bill 1500

Opposition to AB 1500 (Schiavo): Expansion of State-Funded Abortion Propaganda and Erosion of Parental Rights

Submitted by Life Legal

Overview

Assembly Bill 1500 (Schiavo) represents yet another alarming step in California’s relentless push to normalize, promote, and publicly fund the abortion industry under the guise of “access” and “equity.” While framed as an effort to provide medically accurate reproductive health information, AB 1500 is a thinly veiled expansion of pro-abortion propaganda paid for by California taxpayers and targeted especially at minors.

Life Legal strongly opposes AB 1500 because it:

  1. Advances abortion as a publicly endorsed good without balanced or life-affirming alternatives,
  2. Undermines parental rights by promoting abortion access for minors without consent, and
  3. Uses taxpayer dollars to fund a biased, ideologically driven campaign favoring the abortion industry.

1. AB 1500 Expands Government-Sponsored Abortion Propaganda

AB 1500 directs the California Department of Public Health to partner with a nonprofit organization entrenched in the “reproductive justice” movement—an industry term often synonymous with abortion-on-demand without restriction or accountability. The bill requires that this organization maintain and expand the Abortion.ca.gov website to include a wide range of so-called “sexual and reproductive health” information.

But make no mistake: the central focus of the site remains abortion—how to get one, how to pay for one, how to travel to one. The bill even mandates posting information about airfare, hotel stays, and meal assistance—all in service of making California a taxpayer-funded abortion destination.

There is no requirement that the website include life-affirming resources such as adoption agencies, pregnancy resource centers, post-abortion support, or the known physical and psychological risks of abortion. This is not informed consent—it’s government-backed indoctrination.

2. AB 1500 Undermines Parental Rights and Shields Minors From Accountability

The bill specifically requires that the website include information about “minors’ rights under state law.” In practice, this means equipping children—some as young as 12—with information about how to obtain abortions or cross state lines for abortions without their parents ever knowing.

This is a direct assault on the family. At a time when parents are working harder than ever to protect and guide their children, California is actively cutting them out of the most serious decisions their child could face.

No other major medical procedure is permitted without parental involvement. Yet this bill codifies the idea that abortion is somehow exempt—not just permitted, but encouraged and subsidized.

3. AB 1500 Is a Taxpayer-Funded Gift to the Abortion Industry

By mandating quarterly updates to the abortion website, public awareness campaigns, and the formation of “stakeholder” and “community” workgroups made up of abortion-supporting organizations, AB 1500 funnels yet more public funds into the hands of Planned Parenthood and its political allies.

This is not neutral public health policy. It is targeted, ideologically driven activism disguised as healthcare. With California taxpayers already funding abortion procedures through Medi-Cal and the state’s Abortion Practical Support Fund, AB 1500 expands the infrastructure that treats abortion not as a last resort, but as a celebrated right.

4. Missing from the Bill: Truth, Balance, and Compassion

Nowhere in the text of AB 1500 is there a mention of:

  • The potential emotional, psychological, and physical consequences of abortion,
  • The development of the unborn child,
  • Life-affirming options like adoption,
  • The growing availability of maternal support programs, or
  • The thousands of pregnancy resource centers that serve women and families every day in California.

AB 1500 fails to serve all Californians. It fails to recognize the humanity of the unborn. And it fails to protect vulnerable women—especially minors—from the exploitative nature of the abortion industry.

Conclusion

AB 1500 is not about providing women with real choices. It is about ensuring that abortion remains the only option publicly funded, publicly promoted, and politically protected in California.

We urge lawmakers to reject AB 1500 and instead support measures that truly empower women—by offering them all the information, all the resources, and all the support they need to choose life.

Life Legal respectfully urges a NO vote on AB 1500.