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California dropped all charges against anti-abortion activist Anastasia Rogers related to a 14-second Instagram video criticizing Planned Parenthood, and the protective order restricting her sidewalk outreach was terminated. The charges were initially based on claims that her video violated California's Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, but after a diversion program and a deadlocked jury, the court dismissed the case in San Francisco County.

The Supreme Court declined to intervene in a custody dispute involving a California couple and their surrogate, McKenna West, who refused to terminate a pregnancy despite a severe fetal heart defect diagnosis. The California court recognized Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar as the legal parents of the baby, who was born in Texas and underwent surgery, with the Supreme Court's decision leaving the parentage ruling intact amid ongoing medical care concerns.