Reproductive rights

Voters in heavily Democratic California approved a ballot measure to enshrine the right to abortion and contraception in the state constitution.

NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai and Jessica Aguirre bring you the race results and updates from across the Bay Area and California.

The Yes for Prop 1 campaign got a boost from a big democrat, Hillary Clinton, who was in San Francisco Thursday to endorse the proposition that if passed, would explicitly add the right to abortion and the right to use contraceptives into the California constitution. Gia Vang reports.

Former senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was in San Francisco Thursday as she attended a panel for California Proposition 1.

Former senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was in San Francisco Thursday as she attended a panel for California Proposition 1.

Months after making abortions cheaper for women, California lawmakers have now voted to make vasectomies cheaper for men.

A California doctor has started a nonprofit, dedicated to creating and running a floating health clinic anchored in federal waters off the Gulf Coast — circumventing restrictive state laws around abortion and reproductive health.

Indiana OBGYN Dr. Caitlin Bernard has received calls of support, and others that were threatening, after she provided abortion care to a 10-year-old Ohio girl who survived a sexual assault. In an interview with NPR, Bernard said she will continue providing care to the fullest extent the law will allow. NPR reporter Sarah McCammon joins LX News to discuss her...

Democrats have pushed legislation through the House that would inscribe the right to use contraceptives into law.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday to protect access to abortion and reproductive services in response to the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade may cause financial hardship for many women, especially those already facing economic instability.

In a concurring opinion to the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, the conservative jurist called on the court to overrule a trio of watershed civil rights rulings, writing, “We have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.”

California Democrats move to make abortions a constitutional right within the state.

The leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that spells out a possible overturning of Roe v. Wade, is now raising concerns well beyond reproductive rights advocates.

The leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion is also raising concern well beyond reproductive rights. Many in the LGBTQ+ community worry that if it happens, overturning Roe v. Wade could also threaten marriage equality across the country. Sergio Quintana reports.

The move is the latest in an aggressive push in Republican-led states across the country to scale back abortion rights.

The tech company joins a growing number that are drawing up policies aimed at helping workers get reproductive health care elsewhere as a growing number of states move to restrict abortion rights.

Abortions in Texas fell by 60% in the first month under the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. in decades.

California’s top law enforcement official says prosecutors should not charge women with murder when a fetus dies, even if their behavior may have contributed to the fetus’ death. Attorney General Rob Bonta acted Thursday after prosecutors in the San Joaquin Valley’s Kings County twice charged women with fetal murder, alleging that their drug use led to the stillbirths.

California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature plan to make the state a “sanctuary” for those out-of-state seeking reproductive care if the U.S. Supreme Court reverse Roe v. Wade.