SF News Thousands of Emboldened Anti-Abortion Protestors, Including Some Proud Boys, Attend Today's Annual March for Life in San Francisco Thousands attended the March for Life in San Francisco, along with several Proud Boys and 100 counter-protesters, while pop-up drag performer Shane Zaldivar sparked a cultural clash.
SF News AG Rob Bonta Sues Humboldt Catholic Hospital for Refusing to Provide Emergency Abortion With Mother’s Life at Risk The state attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Humboldt County's Providence St. Joseph Hospital for refusing to provide an emergency abortion on a night when the mother might have died without one.
SF News Supreme Court Briefly Leaks Decision Indicating It Will Temporarily Allow Emergency Abortions to Continue In Idaho The Supreme Court may be sidestepping a thorny abortion case, but the result appears will be that a lower court's pause on Idaho's near-total abortion ban will continue.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Pill Access The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of upholding women's access to mifepristone; there was a fatal motorcycle crash on westbound I-580 in Livermore causing a major backup; and the Oakland City Council approved the sale of the Coliseum complex.
SF News Pro-Choice Activists Rally at SF Federal Building for Abortion Pill Access, as Supreme Court Set to Hear Case In advance of the Supreme Court hearing arguments Tuesday on their first abortion case since overturning Roe v. Wade, a group of activists took to the SF Federal Building Sunday to defend access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
SF Politics VP Kamala Harris Visits Abortion Clinic In Minnesota In Historic First Vice President Kamala Harris became the first vice president or president ever to visit an abortion clinic on Thursday, stopping in at a Planned Parenthood in St. Paul, Minnesota.
SF News Anti-Abortion Activists to March In San Francisco Saturday, and They're Trying to Pray the Rain Away The annual Walk for Life is happening on Market Street in San Francisco, and it's all but guaranteed to be a wet one — but the godly among them are praying that rays of sunshine will come through like they apparently did a few years ago.
SF Politics SF Supes Overturn Their Own Ban On Doing Business With States With Discriminatory Laws The SF Board of Supervisors overturned their own 2016 ban on doing business with states who’ve passed anti-LGBTQ legislation, restrictive abortion laws, and engaged in voter suppression, concluding the ban did more harm than good.
SF Politics Gov. Gavin Newsom Says California Is 'Done' With Walgreens Over Abortion Pill Decision Gavin Newsom took to Twitter early Monday to declare that pharmacy chain Walgreens is now on the list of entities the state won't being doing future business with, due to its decision not to ship medical-abortion drugs to women in 20 states.
Bay Area Sports Former 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh Gave Passionate Speech Against Abortion at Charity Event In Michigan "Let the unborn be born," proclaimed the Catholic former NFL coach who's now back to coaching college ball at University of Michigan — and perhaps it's best he saved this proselytizing for after he left the Bay Area.
SF Politics Bay Area Reps Jackie Speier and Barbara Lee Proudly Get Arrested at D.C. Abortion Rights Protest If you need another reason to love peninsula and East Bay congressional representatives Barbara Lee and Jackie Speier, they just blocked a street and got arrested Tuesday at a Washington, D.C. abortion rights rally.
Arts & Entertainment Bernal Hill Rock Goes Hard In Support of Abortion Rights After Roe v. Wade Overturned The latest paint job to the beloved boulder at the base of Bernal Heights Park is a message of abortion rights determination and resistance, as women’s liberties feel like they’re hitting rock-bottom in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision.
Business & Tech Facebook and Instagram are Deleting Posts About Abortion Pills, Sometimes ‘Within Seconds’ Big Brother is declaring it’s a thoughtcrime to mention the availability of abortion pills on Meta’s Facebook or Instagram platforms. But the exact same posts are staying up if they substitute the words “guns” or “weed” for “abortion pills.”
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Abortion Rights Amendment Heads to November Ballot A 4.2M earthquake struck this morning in Lake County, one person died in a grass fire Monday in Sonoma County, and more than two-thirds of California lawmakers voted Monday to send a constitutional amendment to the November ballot enshrining abortion rights into state law.
SF Politics Bay Area Revs Up to Rally for Abortion Rights, Here’s Where Friday‘s Protests Are Planned Pride Weekend just became protest weekend after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and we’ve collected all of Friday’s planned Bay Area actions and protests scheduled to go down as their announcements come in.
SF Politics Trump Himself Has Told Friends That Anti-Abortion Laws Are 'So Stupid' and That a Reversal of 'Roe' Would Hurt Republicans Reactions to the Supreme Court's decision striking down Roe v. Wade were swift on Friday morning from the likes of Mike Pence. But the man most responsible for this moment, Donald Trump, is reportedly less than pleased by this outcome behind closed doors.
SF News Photos: Reproductive Rights Activists Rally at Lake Merritt Saturday afternoon saw an estimated 200-plus people organize at Lake Merritt to show their support of reproductive rights and to denounce the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Thousands Rally For Abortion Rights In SF and Oakland Matt Haney took the oath of office at the Assembly on Tuesday, thousands came out to march for abortion rights in SF and Oakland, and analyses are flying about the Supreme Court leak and what it could be hoping to accomplish.
SF Politics Abortion Rights Activists Plan Rally at SF Federal Building Tuesday Multiple groups are organizing a rally for abortion rights today in San Francisco, as part of a nationwide response to the leaked, draft, possibly majority opinion coming out of the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
SF Politics SF’s Nutty Archbishop Takes On Pelosi in National Advertising Campaign Our own COVID superspreader Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is trying to build up his profile with a national anti-abortion ad campaign targeting Nancy Pelosi, but thus far the campaign is all bishop’s-hat and no cattle.
SF News 'Handmaids' To Protest Against Planned Parenthood Sting Video Suspects This Month The meme power is strong with Hulu’s hit streaming series The Handmaid’s Tale, a big-budget interpretation of the 1985 Margaret Atwood novel portraying a dystopian “future” in which women have no
SF News Abortion Access Hackathon Moves Fast, Breaks Patriarchy “If you have not done a lot of tweeting about abortion before, you’re in for it,” Bay Area journalist Andrea Grimes said in her opening remarks to this weekend’s Abortion Access
SF News Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Shooter Robert Dear Found Unfit For Trial Not shockingly, the man accused in the killing of three innocent people last November in Colorado Springs, as he attempted to storm a Planned Parenthood location there and be a "warrior for the
SF News Justice Scalia Says Bans On Abortion, Sodomy Are 'Absolutely Easy' At a speaking engagement at Washington’s American Enterprise Institute this week, Justice Antonin Scalia was just being himself as he made several off-hand remarks about how easy it would be, constitutionally, to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Abortion Explained, Via the Bible If you're not familiar with America's Best Christian Mrs. Betty Bowers (a character created by L.A. comedienne Deven Green), you probably should be. She did a rather internet-famous explication of traditional marriage
