Our Mission
Participants from the WHS Young Women's Leadership Program
We have a vision: A world where women control their own bodies, reproduction and sexuality.
The Feminist Women's Health Center / Women's Health Specialists is dedicated to providing women-controlled health care and advocating for all options for all women.
Our Philosophy
The philosophy of Women's Health Specialists is to promote positive images of women and provide our clients with a new perspective of their bodies and health. We give women the tools to evaluate their authentic health care needs - images of women not based on a societal myth, but based on women's reality and experience. We provide women with health information so they can become knowledgeable about their normal life stages. Our goal is to empower women through support, education, self-help and services so that they can make the best health care decisions for themselves.
We put Women's Health in Women's Hands
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Join the Trust Women Week - National Online March Now!
There is still time to participate in the very first online virtual march for Trust Women Week. Stand up for Reproductive Justice and let your voice heard. There are over 87,000 people marching and the number continues to grow, click here and join the movement today! Defend Freedom of Choice By Eileen Schnitger, WHS, Director of Public Policy Published in the Sacramento News & Review
Access to abortion care and all sexual and reproductive health care is essential to self-determination. Thirty-nine years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, making abortion legal across the land. One-third of all U.S. women will have an abortion by the age of 45...read more. |
WHS Video
Woman Centered Health Care
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Events
WHS Radio Show, "It's Your Body" Thursday, February 09, 2012 Tune into 90.1 FM for the WHS radio show featuring the latest information on women's health, sexuality, pregnancy, birth, cancer prevention, birth control. Call and share your own experiences, women and men alike. You can also stream the show live at www.kzfr.org |
Women's Health Specialists is dedicated to providing women with information so that they can make the most informed decisions about their health care. WHS Health Alerts and News gives women the tools to better understand important health issues by demystifying health news. WHS Health Alerts is a place for women to read, discuss, and share news and their experiences.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 @ 12:48:00 PM - Written by Carol Downer | 0 comments
If working in the abortion movement for over 40 years qualifies me to gaze into my crystal ball to see the future for abortion rights in the United States, here goes. I see clinics closing down due to restrictive regulations and lack of doctors, especially in areas far from an urban center. This lack of access will mostly affect young women and poor women of color. But, as was the case before the decision in Roe v. Wade, the majority of unwillingly pregnant women will continue to get abortions,
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Friday, January 13, 2012 @ 4:44:00 PM | 0 comments
By almost any measure, issues related to reproductive health and rights at the state level received unprecedented attention in 2011. In the 50 states combined, legislators introduced more than 1,100 reproductive health and rights-related provisions, a sharp increase from the 950 introduced in 2010.
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Friday, January 06, 2012 @ 4:21:00 PM | 0 comments
In an unprecedented move today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) overruled a decision by the scientists at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow Plan B One-Step® to be sold over-the-counter to women of all ages.
