OUTRAGE: Taxpayers are sending billions to the 'nerve center of the abortion industry'

American taxpayers are unwittingly spending billions of dollars annually to fund a public university's health centers (which openly commit abortions) and which facilitates an abortion training program.

Key Takeaways:

• The University of California (UC), which operates 10 campus locations in the state, is home to health centers openly committing abortions as well as Ryan Residency abortion training programs.

• As an abortion sanctuary state, California heavily promotes abortion at the taxpayer's expense.

• Taxpayer-funded public universities in the UC system are committing abortions and training future abortionists to kill preborn human beings.

• Both state and federal taxpayers are shelling out billions of dollars that are funneled directly toward the "nerve center of the abortion industry."

What's Happening:

California: An abortion sanctuary

 A state law passed in 2019 required student health centers to provide access to abortion pills. In 2024, Annie Sumberg, Associate Vice President, Capacity Building at Essential Access Health, told UC's news arm:

"We are thrilled that UC campus health centers now offer medication abortion as part of their comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care service delivery. The availability of medication abortion on campuses across California...has inspired other colleges and universities nationwide to follow suit."

California vowed to be a sanctuary for abortion and formed the California Future of Abortion Council initiative. The State openly funds abortion and publishes a step by step website page where students can access abortion.

In 2019, Live Action News reviewed reports published by Medi-Cal, a California state taxpayer-funded program for low-income children and adults, and found that in just the state’s Fee for Service (FFS) Program, taxpayers paid nearly $700 million for abortions over 25 years, from 1989 to 2014. In 2022, the state committed 20% of the national abortions.

University of California locations openly offer abortions

UCSF: The University of California San Francisco's (UCSF) Center for Pregnancy Options provides "abortion care and family planning services in a private, comfortable and sensitive environment," through the second trimester of pregnancy. UCSF operates a second location at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, where, "[a]s part of UCSF’s abortion and family planning care division," the university "pride[s]" itself in offering abortion.

UCB: The University of California Berkeley's website states:

If you are interested in a medication abortion appointment at the Tang Center, go to [a specific Berkeley health link] and on the side bar menu, click 'Request Birth Control and Pregnancy Services' and complete the questionnaire 'Medication Abortion' and a clinician will contact you.

UCD: The University of California Davis' Health website states:

UC Davis Health's Family Planning Center in Sacramento is invested in helping every patient, regardless of their choice and circumstance. We offer abortion services for patients in the first and second trimesters... Procedural abortions can be performed in our office in Sacramento or at the hospital, depending on your situation. More advanced procedures typically require multiple visits.

UCI: The University of California Irvine offers "[m]edication abortion services" at the "UCI Student Health Center for pregnancies up to 70 days (10 weeks)."

UCSD: The University of California San Diego has multiple medical facilities and offers "abortion care services through your well-woman provider," including the abortion pill.

UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Santa Cruz offer abortions as well.

The University of California trains abortionists

Complex Family Planning Fellowship

"The Complex Family Planning Fellowship began in 1991 at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)," UCSF's website states.

UCI: "UC Irvine provides fellows with a protected environment in which to train and focus on Family Planning," their website states. "Our program offers comprehensive abortion training in various settings which allows fellows to gain extensive experience while always prioritizing shared decision-making."

UCLA: "Fellows are trained in all aspects of reproductive health, which includes medical and surgical abortions in first and second trimester," states UC Los Angeles.

UCSF: UC San Francisco states:

Clinical training encompasses all methods of uterine evacuation with emphasis on second-trimester D&E. An important benefit of the program is the variety of practice settings in which fellows encounter many kinds of patients and clinical challenges. These settings include an in-hospital outpatient abortion clinic focused on complex second-trimester cases, and a private practice-based abortion clinic, which offers medication abortions and genetic terminations...

Abortion training programs are also available at UCSD and UCD.

UCSF is also part of an effort to train nurses to commit abortions and it has been cited for conducting research on aborted babies, pushing the expansion of the abortion pill, and promoting the erasure of important safety requirements — REMS — put in place by the FDA. 

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Attorney Mike Seibel, who investigated the ties between the University of New Mexico’s (UMN) fetal harvesting program along with UCSF and the Ryan abortion training program, told Live Action News:

“UCSF is the mastermind of abortion policy within the United States. If [they were defunded] it would be a significant blow against the nerve center of the abortion industry.”

Ryan Residency and Bixby Center Training

In the past 20 years, the Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion, based at the Bixby Center for Global Health at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), reportedly trained over 7,000 OBGYNs to kill preborn children.

The program, which often partners with abortion facilities including Planned Parenthood, trains providers in pro-life states. They currently claim to have 121 residency training programs nationwide since the program's founding in 1999; this number includes even some Catholic institutions.

UCSF's Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health offers lectures through its Innovating Education in Reproductive Health, which is described as “a digital hub that highlights innovative family planning and abortion curricula, tools, teaching techniques and research from educational leaders around the world.”

In 2009, a UC report claimed:

The Bixby Center’s annual budget of $40 million comes from a diversity of contracts, grants, and gifts from federal and state governments, foundations, corporations, and individuals.

Over the past decade, the Bixby Center has been awarded $280 million from governmental agencies, foundations, corporations, and individuals to support our work.

Bixby’s annual reports reveal:

• 2014: Nearly $22 million dollars (52%) of Bixby’s revenue came from taxpayers, although the report does not specify whether the funds were state or federal. 

• 2015: Although taxpayer dollars made up only 18% of Bixby’s revenue, it totaled over $18 million. 

• 2016: Over $27M (51%) of Bixby's revenue came from state and federal dollars.

Bixby is located in California, which permits taxpayer dollars to fund abortions and has no requirement that abortion numbers be reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for data analysis. Bixby leaders work to expand abortion, even in pro-life states.

Bilking California taxpayers

"The University of California receives more than $17 billion each year in federal support. That includes $9.9 billion in Medicare and Medicaid funding, $5.7 billion for research and program support, and $1.7 billion in student financial aid [emphasis added]," wrote UC's president James B. Milliken on September 15, 2025.

In April of 2025, Edsource.org reported that "The U.S. Department of Justice is currently investigating, among other things, allegations of discriminatory admissions practices and complaints of antisemitism at several UC campuses," adding that "UC gets about $6 billion annually in federal funds for research and other program supports, with NIH being the top source" (emphasis added).

"The federal government in August suspended $584 million in grants to the University of California, Los Angeles over antisemitism-related allegations," HigherEdDrive.com reported.

In 2018, the University of California claimed that federal funds are UC’s “single most important source of support for research – in FY 2018, UC was awarded $2.95 billion in federal research awards, more than half of the university’s total research awards.”

Despite massive dollars flowing from private funds, UC’s financial audit that same year (2018) revealed that “In 2018, federal grants and contracts revenue increased $43.0 million, or 1.3%, as compared to 2017.” All UC projects funded by NIH in FY 2019 total over $77,000,000.

"Revenue from federal, state, private and local government grants and contracts — including an overall facilities and administration cost recovery of $1.1 billion, $1.1 billion and $1.0 billion in 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively — were $5.7 billion, $5.4 billion and $5.3 billion in 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively," the audit stated.

UC's medical center report for 2024-25 revealed direct government grants as follows:

• $3.1M for UC Davis

• $10.3M for UC Los Angeles

• $4.7M for UC San Diego

• $188.3M for UC San Francisco

In 2025, while "federal grants and contracts revenue remained flat compared to 2024," UC's 2024-25 financial audit noted taxpayer revenue increased $374M (or 8.5%) in 2024 compared to 2023. In addition:

Federal grants and contracts include federal facilities and administration cost recovery of $1.2 billion, $1.1 billion, and $1.1 billion in 2025, 2024, and 2023 respectively.

Bilking federal taxpayers

Five UC locations made up the top NIH funding sites, according to Gene Engineering and Biotechnology News:

UC San Francisco (UCSF):

• FY 2025: 1,409 awards totaling $811,379,767

• FY 2024: 1,452 awards totaling $814,929,934

UC San Diego

• FY 2025: 924 awards totaling $561,206,829

• FY 2024: 1,035 awards totaling $560,905,361

UC Los Angeles (UCLA)

• FY 2025: 822 awards totaling $505,435,341

• FY 2024: 874 awards totaling $496,007,005

UC Davis

• FY 2025: 504 awards totaling $297,095,438

• FY 2024: 565 awards totaling $277,681,916

UC Irvine

• FY 2025: 431 awards totaling $232,624,931

• FY 2024: 492 awards totaling $256,390,021

The Bottom Line:

As efforts to defund abortion providers and those who profit off the bodies of innocent preborn children increase, a prohibition of taxpayer funding to universities that train abortionists and kill preborn children in the United States is also imperative.