Women’s Health Specialists: Feminist Reproductive Health Care and Advocacy

Women’s Health Specialists of California (WHS) is a Feminist Women’s Health Center providing reproductive health services, including abortion care, birth control and sexual health screening. We have served over 35,000 women and men per year since opening in 1975. Our non-profit organization operates four licensed community clinics and four satellite sites, serving a 40 county region of California.

“We have a vision: A world where women control their own bodies, reproduction and sexuality. Women’s Health Specialists is dedicated to providing women-controlled health care and advocating all options for all women. Only with dignity and freedom of choice can women achieve their full potential.”

Policy Priorities and Reproductive Justice

WHS stands up for Abortion Justice! Our Redding clinic joins community partners, Shasta Abortion Coalition, Redding Women’s March, Northstate Women’s Health Network, and more in the National Day of Action, “Bigger than Roe” protest. WHS Chico staff also came together on the National Day of Action in Downtown Chico to fight for reproductive rights.

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 providers. However, by eliminating Title X protections, anti-choice politicians continue attack on women’s access to health care. 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.

In solidarity with our Hispanic Community and all Latinx folks, we recognize that Hispanic Heritage Month commemorates histories and cultures, but as more Latinos migrate, celebrating these cultures becomes challenging due to ongoing injustices that threaten the physical and mental health of families and communities. We also stand in solidarity with the passing of Klee Benally, a powerful Indigenous cultural advocate and land defender.

Health Alerts and Community Education

Women’s Health Specialists is closely monitoring the status of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Butte County Public Health, Shasta County Public Health and Nevada County Public Health for each of our locations. For more information, please visit our locations, including the Grass Valley location which is open today.

Other WHS programs include: Adoption Choices of Northern California, Young Women’s Health Leadership Program, and the Community Outreach and Education Program. Hello, WHS youth, our Peer Education Trainings are back and we have brought them to both Chico and Redding! Come have a healthy & safe conversation about sexual health, contraception, and more in a fun and engaging way and receive a certificate of completion.

Sponsorship and Support Opportunities

Support Women's Health Specialists by being a sponsor today! Make a statement to demand abortion access. To sponsor choose a level below and complete the donation form:

• Protect Roe: $150 — Includes being listed in event program and 1 complimentary After Party ticket.
• Stop Abortion Bans: $300 — Includes logo on all event support material, on-site signage at event, quarter-page ad in event program, and 2 complimentary After Party tickets.
• My Body My Future: $500 — Includes logo on all event support material, logo on website and Facebook event page, on-site signage at event with sponsor display, and 4 complimentary After Party tickets.
• Demand Access: $1,000 — Includes logo on website and Facebook event page, on-site signage at event with prime sponsor display location, half-page ad in event program, 8 complimentary After Party tickets, and 1 bottle of wine.
• Reproductive Justice: $2,500 — Includes logo on website and Facebook event page, full-page ad in event program, 8 complimentary After Party tickets, 2 bottles of wine, and WHS mementos for 8.