Abortion.

Existing law regulates the performance of abortions. Existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, provides that the state may not deny or interfere with a woman's right to choose or obtain an abortion prior to viability of the fetus, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman. Under this existing law, an abortion is unauthorized unless it complies with provisions of the Medical Practice Act that make performance of an abortion by a person without a physician and surgeon's certificate subject to the provisions relating to the unauthorized practice of medicine. Violation of these provisions constitutes unprofessional conduct and is a crime.