SB 23 will repeal California’s policy of denying financial support to babies born while their families are receiving CalWORKs basic needs grants.Read more »
Reproductive Justice & Gender Equity
The ACLU works toward a California that is free of gender discrimination and that respects, values, and supports all Californians’ decisions about intimate relationships and reproduction.
Resources for quality sex education. Read More
A guide for free & low-cost sexual health care in CA Learn more
Abortion access on college campuses (SB 24). Read More
Lawsuit against Catholic hospitals for refusing care. Read More
Legislation
Blog
March 21, 2016
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Bills sponsored by the ACLU of California would help move us forward. Every year, the ACLU of California sponsors several bills in the California Legislature. What does it mean to sponsor a bill? In most cases, it means we have collaborated with... Read more »
Events
March 18, 2016 - 7:30pm
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Join us at a San Francisco screening this Friday night of TRAPPED, a new documentary about restrictive laws targeting abortion providers (TRAP laws, as they’re known). It features providers in Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama. Read more
Blog
January 25, 2016
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The answer should be "no." Yet that's the issue in a case the ACLU recently filed in California. Read more »
Blog
January 22, 2016
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In his 2016 State of the State speech, Gov. Jerry Brown failed to mention a critical dimension to economic inequality in California: racial inequality. People of color are uniquely impacted by government policies that fall most heavily on the poor,... Read more »
Blog
January 20, 2016
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Rebecca's doctor said yes. Her hospital said no. The hospital didn't say the procedure wasn't safe. The hospital said the procedure violated its ethical and religious principles. Read more »
News
January 19, 2016
The ACLU of California today released a report that finds county jails are putting people’s health at risk by denying, delaying, and ignoring crucial reproductive health care. Read more
California has some of the strongest laws in the country that guarantee your right to obtain sexual and reproductive health care. Being in jail does not mean you lose those rights, and you have the right to obtain the reproductive health care you... Read more
Publication
California jails are required by law to protect the reproductive health of the people in their care. But across the state, we’re seeing that accessing reproductive health care becomes a frightening and traumatic experience for incarcerated people. A... Read more »
Blog
December 29, 2015
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Today we filed a lawsuit challenging Dignity Health’s use of religious directives to deny basic reproductive health care to its patients. Filed on behalf of patient Rebecca Chamorro and Physicians for Reproductive Health, the suit argues that... Read more »