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Nathan Apodaca, president of the Students for Life chapter at California State University–San Marcos, sued the university after it denied funding for a pro-life speaker while disproportionately funding pro-abortion and LGBT student centers with mandatory student fees. Following a 2019 federal court ruling in his favor, CSUSM changed its policies to ensure viewpoint-neutral distribution of student activity funds, and the California State University system directed all 23 campuses to revise their policies to comply with First Amendment free speech protections.

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys are appealing to the 9th Circuit on behalf of California pro-life pregnancy centers, including SCV Pregnancy Center in Santa Clarita, to protect their right to inform women about abortion pill reversal using progesterone therapy. The appeal challenges California Attorney General Rob Bonta's censorship of pregnancy centers that provide information on this treatment, arguing it violates First Amendment rights.