California is giving Planned Parenthood $140 million to help keep 109 clinics open after Congress cut funding for the health system in July. Gov. Gavin Newsom said the move reflects the state's commitment to abortion and reproductive healthcare. Lawmakers will take up the issue of continued funding when the Legislature convents in January. Several clinics in California have closed or will stop offering primary care services. The nonprofit needs about $27 million a month to operate all of its local facilities. California is the fourth state — after Washington, Colorado and New Mexico — to pledge public funds to Planned Parenthood. Republicans have criticized Planned Parenthood for decades for offering contraceptive and abortion services.
Federal health officials have approved another generic version of the abortion pill, prompting outrage from abortion opponents. Anti-abortion groups quickly criticized the move on Thursday, calling it a "stain" on the Trump administration. The groups have been pushing for a safety review of mifepristone. The FDA first approved the drug as safe and effective in 2000. The new version of the pill is from drugmaker Evita Solutions. It's not the first generic version, which the FDA approved in 2019.
The Sequoia Healthcare District Board of Directors approved giving Planned Parenthood Mar Monte $500,000 in emergency funds to support the Red…
Clinics, advocacy groups and individuals who share abortion-related content online say they are seeing informational posts being taken down even if the posts don't clearly violate the platforms' policies. The groups, in Latin America and the U.S., are denouncing what they see as censorship even in places where abortion is legal. Companies like Meta say their policies have not changed, and experts attribute the takedowns to over-enforcement. But abortion advocates say the removals have a chilling effect even if they are later reversed, and navigating platforms' complex systems of appeals is difficult, if not impossible.
Even as a federal judge indefinitely blocked a Trump administration policy that would prohibit Planned Parenthood locations from receiving Med…
Last week, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte was forced to close two of its three health centers in San Mateo County due to drastic Medicare cuts i…
A federal judge says Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding. The judged ruled Monday as the nation's largest abortion provider fights President Donald Trump's administration over efforts to defund the organization in his signature tax legislation. The new order replaces a previous edict that initially granted a preliminary injunction. That injunction specifically blocked the government from cutting Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood members that didn't provide abortion care or didn't meet a threshold of at least $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements in a given year.
Five Planned Parenthood locations in Northern California — including one in San Mateo and another in South San Francisco — have been forced to…
On June 24, 1983, the space shuttle Challenger — carrying America's first woman in space, Sally Ride — coasted to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
A new report finds that the number of abortions in the U.S. grew in 2024 as more women obtained pills through telehealth. The latest WeCount project for the Society of Family Planning finds that 1 in 4 abortions uses medications prescribed by a provider who does not see the patient in person. That is up from 1 in 20 in the months before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. The number may explain why another recent study found that fewer women crossed state lines for abortion in 2024 than the year before.
