AB 2223
What is AB 2223?
This legislation removes all penalties from anyone violating any abortion health and safety standards when performing an abortion on a woman through all nine months of pregnancy. The bill also hampers law enforcement's ability to investigate and prosecute infanticide.
Learn more about what the bill would do if passed.
Learn more about what the bill would do if passed.
How You Can Push Back
You vote in this upcoming election against those elected representatives that voted for AB 2223. See how they voted here.
Where is the AB 2223 Now?
Governor Newsom signed AB 2223 on September 27 and the law will be come effective on January 1, 2023.
AB 2223 In the News
July 7, 2022: Assemblywoman Faces Questions on Whether Her Bill Allows Killing Infants Who Survive Abortions
May 19, 2022: AB 2223 is Amended: California Family Council: āInfanticide Billā Amended After Huge Public Outcry, But Serious Problems Remain
Updated legislative analysis from Right to Life League: OPEN LETTER TO CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATORS IN OPPOSITION TO AB 2223 AS IT IS POORLY DRAFTED AND COULD DE-REGULATE THE ENTIRE ABORTION INDUSTRY AS WRITTEN
- California Globe: Infanticide or āPregnancy Loss?ā Abortion Bill Passes Assembly Judiciary Committee
- CBN News: California Assembly Judiciary Committee Passes Radical Measure Pro-Life Advocates Call ‘The Infanticide Bill’
- California Catholic Conference: AB 2223 Fails to Clarify Question of Infanticide Protections
- CFC: Assembly Judiciary Committee to Vote on Infanticide Bill
- CFC: Legislative Bombshell: Bill to Decriminalize Killing Newborns Introduced
- CFC: Assembly Judiciary Committee Approves Infanticide Bill, But the Fight Is Just Beginning
- CFC: Pastors Bringing Over 1500 People to CA Capitol Tomorrow to Oppose Infanticide Bill
- CFC: Record Numbers Attend Lobby Day Against Infanticide Bill, Stubborn Legislators Pass it Anyways
- National Review: Now, a California Bill to Permit Infant Death by Neglect
- California Globe: California: The Golden State Becomes The Abortion State
- CBN News: Free Abortions and ‘Infanticide’: Newsom Greenlights Coverage, Next Bill Would Legalize ‘Killing Babies Born Alive’
- CBN News: ‘Diabolical Bill’: Pro-Lifers Rally at California Capitol as Pro-Abortion ‘Infanticide’ Bill Advances
- Townhall: California May Very Likely Soon Legalize Infanticide
- Daily Wire: Democratic Analysis: California Bill Could Have Legalized āDeath Of A Newborn For Any Reason,ā Including Murder
- Daily Wire: The Deep Blue Path To Infanticide
- Daily Wire: California Democrats are pushing a bill opening door to “decriminalizing infanticide,” pro-lifers warn
- Sacramento Bee: Planned Parenthood unveils sponsored bill package + Bill shields mothers from criminal charges
- National Center for Law and Policy: California Cabal Seeks to Create a āSafe Spaceā to Kill More Babies and Infants
- Decision: Pro-Lifers Concerned States Are Moving to Decriminalize Infanticide
- Epoch Times: California Assembly Committee Passes Bill That Could Legalize Infanticide
- Epoch Times: Californians Rally Against the āInfanticide Billā
- ACLJ: California Follows Maryland’s Lead With Disturbing Bill That Could Effectively Legalize Infanticide
- ACLJ: Official Analysis by Pro-Abortion-Majority Committee Staff on California Abortion Bill Confirms What We’ve Been Saying ā “‘Perinatal Death’ Language Could Lead to Unintended and Undesirable Conclusion”
- The Federalist: California Bill Openly Admits Abortion Was Always About Killing Babies
- The American Thinker: Green-Lighting Infanticide in California
- Lifesite News: Attorneys warn amended California abortion bill could still legalize infanticide
- Pastor Jack Hibbs – The Stream – The Golden State Has Become the Gangrene State
- CAL MATTERS: Abortion, COVID protests collide at Capitol
- Christian Post: Christians rally against California abortion legislation: āNever seen a bill like thisā
- Brian Sussman: When Lawmakers and Media Collude: CA Infanticide Bill 2223
- The Washington Times: California bill to protect pregnant women from liability stokes infanticide fears
- Right to Life League: CALIFORNIA BILL WILL LEGALIZE INFANTICIDE
- Right to Life League: CA INFANTICIDE BILL RUSHED TO NEXT HEARING APRIL 19TH
- Thomas More Society: The Post Roe Legal Debate: āTo Infanticide, or Not to Infanticide?ā
- Alliance Defending Freedom: Proposed Abortion Bills Would Effectively Decriminalize Death by Neglect for Newborns
- Alliance Defending Freedom: California Thinks It Can Raise Your Kids Better Than You Can
Rebuttals to FACT Check articles claiming AB 2223 will not decriminalize infanticide
- National Center for Law and Policy: Fact Checkers Fail to Take the Text of AB-2223 Into Account, Ignoring Infanticide Concerns
- Right to Life League: āFACT CHECKERSā FAIL TO RESEARCH CALIFORNIAāS INFANTICIDE BILL AB 2223
- Charisma News – Kevin McGary: ‘We Are Not Fools.’ The Language of AB2223 Can’t Hide the Murder of Babie
AB 2223 Opposition Letters
- California Family Council
- Pacific Justice Institute – Center for Public Policy
- National Center for Law and Policy
- Americans United for Life
- Life Legal Defense Foundation
- Right to Life League
- Traditional Values for Next Generations
- Capitol Resource Institute
- California ProLife Council and Right to Life Federation
- Right to Life Kern County