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	Jennifer Parker, Executive Director Click here to explore the website of ACCESS / Women's Health Rights Coalition (178-) PO Box 3609 (click for map) Oakland, CA 94609 (800) 376-4636 - English Hotline Click here to email ACCESS / Women's Health Rights Coalition
	Spanish Hotline number, 1-888-442-2237 ACCESS... MAKING CHOICES REAL. Most people believe that reproductive health care is easy to get in California, because our reproductive rights are stronger than in many other states. Abortion and prenatal care are covered by public insurance (Medi-Cal), and low-cost family planning services are widely available. Legally, there are few restrictions on abortion. Yet despite these rights, reproductive choice is not a reality for millions of women in California. Women face all kinds of obstacles to reproductive health care: money, time, distance, lack of childcare, language barriers, bureaucratic indifference, and misinformation. Too many women and girls lack even a basic understanding of their own bodies, putting them at risk for accidental pregnancy, STIs and HIV infection, as well as for sexual abuse or manipulation. Although low-income women can sign up for public insurance to cover abortion, prenatal care and a variety of family planning services, many clinics do not volunteer information about Medi-Cal or Family PACT when women call to ask how much services will cost. Women looking for free pregnancy tests and options counseling can accidentally end up at one of many anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers," which try to prevent women from getting abortions by refusing to make abortion referrals, pressuring women to consider adoption, and giving false information about the risks associated with abortion. More than half of the counties in Northern and Central California have no known abortion provider, and most clinics that provide second trimester abortions are in urban areas. Although several providers in the Bay Area and Sacramento offer second trimester abortions, only one accepts Emergency Medi-Cal for abortions after 20 weeks. Due to the increased demand for services at this clinic, women often wait two or three weeks to get an appointment. Their only other option is travel to Los Angeles or San Diego. ACCESS was created in 1993 to combat these barriers and make reproductive freedom a reality for all women. We believe the right to make our own reproductive and sexual decisions is essential to women's full social, economic and political equality. We also believe that reproductive rights are meaningless if you don't know how to get low cost birth control, there is no abortion provider who accepts your insurance, you are afraid to seek prenatal care because of your immigration status, or the closest clinic is hours from your home. Our goal is to bridge the gaps between rights and reality.

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