California health carriers must cover the cost of all abortions, state officials have ruled.
The new rules are a reversal of previous policy spurred by outrage from faculty and staff after two Catholic universities last fall said they would drop elective abortions from their employee health plans.
California's Department of Managed Health Care on Friday sent letters to seven insurance companies saying refusing to pay for any abortion, whether medically necessary or not, violates the state constitution and a 1975 state law.
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