SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- On the ballot in November, Californians will vote on whether to make abortion and contraceptive rights protected in the state constitution. On Monday, the California State ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the state is suing a hospital in Eureka for allegedly refusing emergency abortion care to women whose lives are in danger. The lawsuit, filed Monday in ...

An existential legal challenge to abortion shield law protections seeks to make an example out of a Bay Area doctor.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, talks with state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta in the Capitol on Monday. At a news conference, Bonta said new proposed bills will make reproductive rights in California "ironclad." ...

California’s attorney general is seeking an injunction against a Humboldt County hospital after staff refused to perform ...

Although most pro-choice Americans remain unaware that telemedicine abortion is an option, patients seeking care have widely ...

A California bill that would allow health care providers to anonymously mail abortion drugs could soon become law, marking the latest effort by a blue state to safeguard access to medication abortion.

A: Under California law, it is legal to have an abortion before viability. A pregnancy becomes viable when a physician makes the determination that the fetus could survive outside the womb (research ...

With more than two dozen states poised to ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court gives them the OK next year, California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature on Wednesday revealed a plan ...

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Three years ago, it wasn’t such a potential liability for a California Republican in Congress to be anti-abortion. Now, several of them are in competitive races to keep their seats. Four signed a ...

California on Monday sued a rural Catholic hospital accused of denying an emergency abortion in February to a woman whose water broke prematurely, putting her at risk of potentially life-threatening ...