Abortion

Commentary

How Trump administration undermines reproductive and LGBTQ rights in California

Lori Freedman and Rebecca Griffin: We’re facing an unprecedented sweep of abortion bans across the country, a frontal attack that we must fight back. A new Trump administration regulation puts the full force of the government behind individuals and institutions that refuse to provide care in the name of religious beliefs. This unnecessary overreach emboldens people to discriminate and has dangerous implications for people’s health. California is not immune.

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Guest Commentary

• June 13, 2019

Newsletters

Finding a friend in Oregon, Newsom’s lawsuit pays off and the Nazi next door

Oregon may join California's cap-and-trade market. Why CSU students pay more for parking. Tom Steyer wades into a new political fight.

By

Ben Christopher

• June 7, 2019

Newsletters

Trade, taxes, health care, lending, and it’s getting hot

Stocks slide on trade wars. What a SCOTUS ruling on CA taxes has to do with abortion. Newsom takes health on the road. High-priced lending and heat laws.

By

Dan Morain

• May 14, 2019

Newsletters

Newsom’s response to synagogue shooting, aging baby boomers, and mental health care

Newsom earmarks money for security at houses of worship and promises more mental health care funding, UCSF Medical Centrer weighs controversial partnership

By

Dan Morain

• April 30, 2019

Charter school advocates and teachers unions mass at the Capitol on April 10, 2019, as state lawmakers considered dramatic curbs on charter schools. Photo for CALmatters by Dan Morain

Newsletters

Schools, pesticide, taxes, wildfires and Planned Parenthood

Unions win Round One of charter schools battle, legislation to ban a crop pesticide clears first hurdle, Planned Parenthood sees California as a safe haven

By

Dan Morain

• April 11, 2019

A young woman looks distraught as she gazes at a positive pregnancy test. California could become the first state to offer abortion pills at public universities.

Commentary

Trump’s rule gagging doctors is a threat to women’s lives

Despite massive opposition, the Trump administration released coercive and unethical regulations governing Title X. The administration’s anti-abortion agenda has seeped into Title X, a program that doesn’t pay for or provide abortion services. Under these rules, doctors would not be able to tell patients where they can get an abortion, even if they ask. The best doctors could do is give a patient a list of healthcare providers, some of whom provide abortions.

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Guest Commentary

• March 12, 2019

Newsletters

Trump’s ‘gag rule,’ mental illness, pensions and damage control

California opens a national Title X battle. Mandated treatment for severe mental illness works, where counties try it. A pension ruling for the status quo.

By

Dan Morain

• March 5, 2019

Newsletters

GOP’s new leader, Trump’s $1 abortion bill, striking teachers and housing costs

CA GOP gets a new chair. Trump wants Californians to pay an extra insurance bill, for $1, because, abortion. Striking teachers, housing and charter schools

By

Dan Morain

• February 25, 2019

Woman's arm gathering a bundle of mail from a mailbox. A Trump administration proposal would have Covered California participants receiving an extra bill of $1 every month for abortion coverage.

Health

Trump’s under-the-radar $1 abortion bill idea: Will it undermine Obamacare in California?

A little-noticed federal proposal aims to force California’s health exchange insurers to send all their customers a second premium bill every month, for $1 —the amount the state requires to cover unrestricted abortion benefits.

By

Elizabeth Aguilera

• February 24, 2019

Newsletters

Brown’s fire plan to help utilities

Gov. Jerry Brown proposed Tuesday that the state ease the liability standards when electricity providers’ equipment sparks fires that destroy property. Utility stock rose. Insurance industry blasts the idea.

By

Dan Morain

• July 25, 2018