Health Alerts For Women

Thanks to all who contributed so much to make our 5th Annual IWD Celebration such a success: our wonderful performers, speakers & crew — especially the amazing Loretta Ross! Special shout-out to the IWD 2019 crew for all their hard work on this extraordinary event. Dance, music, & speaking truth to power — all to […]

Support Women’s Health Specialists this #GivingTuesday by making a donation today! Your support helps Women’s Health Specialists provide crucial reproductive health services to thousands of individuals every year.

Tickets available online or at Adoption Choices/Women’s Health Specialists, Chico or Blackbird in Chico! Also listen in for an adoption show on KZFR, 90.1 FM, on Thursday, November 9th from 6:00-7:00PM. Director at Adoption Choices, Marikathryn Hendrix, will be interviewing adult adoptees about their experiences with adoption.

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) released its draft appropriations measure for fiscal year (FY) 2018. The subcommittee will mark up the proposal this week and it is expected to head to the full House Appropriations Committee for debate and approval next week. For the sixth […]

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By Monica Simpson, executive director of SisterSong, and Cindy Pearson, executive director of the National Women’s Health Network Monica Raye Simpson is the Executive Director of SisterSong, the national Reproductive Justice collective Cindy Pearson is the Executive Director of the National Women’s Health Network There has been increased attention and funding in recent years for […]

“SisterSong the National Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective is celebrating 20 years of amplifying the voices of Indigenous women and women of color, and we are celebrating this milestone by hosting our third national Let’s Talk About Sex! conference October 5-8, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year, our theme […]

This weekend in Sacramento, we’re bowling to strike down barriers for abortion by raising money for our Women in Need fund. The Women in Need fund provides folks coming for abortion care with financial help for medical services, transportation, motels, childcare or whatever they need to be able to come to the clinic. Donate to […]

It’s Reproductive Freedom Week and we are featuring our policy priorities for this year! First, we’d like to introduce you all to SB 743, the Freedom of Choice in Family Planning Act. SB 743 (Hernandez) would ensure that Medi-Cal managed care enrollees can receive family planning services from their qualified provider of choice. SB 743 […]

March 30, 2017:  “Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Senate—with the help of Vice President Mike Pence, who cast the tie-breaking vote—voted to overturn an Obama administration rule that protects Title X providers, a move that could cause millions of people to go without access to affordable family planning services, reduce the Title X provider […]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The National Network of Abortion Funds Bowl-a-thon is here! This weekend in Redding, we’re bowling to strike down barriers for abortion by raising money for our Women in Need fund. The Women in Need fund provides folks coming for abortion care with financial help for medical services, […]

Call your Senators to tell them to oppose Gorsuch using this easy Senator locator tool!

The Feminist Majority Foundation has launched a new campaign, the Millions 4 Roe campaign. Among the many concerns that progressive leaders and organizations have with Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch are his concerning record and writings related to reproductive health care. Take a stand and use your voice with this tool by the Feminist Majority […]

Written for GlobalGiving, By Linda L. McCrea – Program/Education Manager, Women’s Health Specialists Redding Women’s Health Specialists of Redding California continues to work with our young women in our communities to spread the power of peer education. Reproductive health knowledge and life skills support young women to continue the need for building self-confidence and honing […]

Women’s Health Specialists Social Media Coordinator Shireen Dada Whitaker speaks about the San Francisco Abortion Access Hackathon in this Time Magazine article! WHS and California National Organization for Women put on the first Abortion Access Hackathon at UC Davis in September and partnered for the 3-day event  dedicated to building innovative tech solutions to help […]

This Bustle article details new findings from National Network of Abortion Funds that demonstrate a not-so-new problem: “Three demographics of women in particular are disproportionately impacted by how difficult it already is to get an abortion: Low-income women, young women, and black women.” The article also details how much more difficult these circumstances get as […]

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The National Network of Abortion Funds Bowl-a-thon is here! Every April, we bowl to strike down barriers for abortion by raising money for our Women in Need fund. The Women in Need fund provides folks coming for abortion care with financial help for medical services, transportation, motels, […]

You might remember All Access: Sacramento, which was the first ever Abortion Access Hackathon! Women’s Health Specialists is partnering with a group of tech experts who double as independent abortion rights activists in San Francisco for another Abortion Access Hackathon–this time a 3 day event, March 3 – 5th, with over 300 participants! The event […]