Currently, public funding for abortion care is available in only 17 states . California is one of these states; California’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, covers about half of California abortions [1, 27]. However, public funding for abortion does not guarantee that publically funded abortions will be accessible. California-based studies have found that difficulty getting Medi-Cal to pay for abortion contributes to delays in obtaining abortion, pushing women into the second trimester. These difficulties include women’s lack of knowledge about available coverage, difficulty negotiating the Medi-Cal application process and difficulty locating an abortion provider that accepts Medi-Cal payment [16, 18]. Given these barriers, it is likely that many women who are eligible for Medi-Cal-coverage for their abortions will choose to instead pay out-of-pocket if they can. In a multi-state study of barriers to Medicaid acceptance for abortion, providers cited low Medicaid abortion reimbursement rates as the primary barrier to accepting Medicaid . Complex billing procedures and slow reimbursement times were also frequently mentioned. A 2006 examination of Medi-Cal acceptance among abortion providers publically advertising in Yellow Pages found that only 53% accepted Medi-Cal through the first trimester, 20% accepted Medi-Cal up to 20 weeks gestation, and 4% accepted Medi-Cal past 21 weeks . Though surveys identified 512 total abortion providing facilities in California in 2011 , it is not known how many of these facilities accepted Medi-Cal payment.