For over 45 years, Women’s Foundation California has stood at the heart of a movement that is both fiercely urgent and endlessly hopeful. We’ve worked shoulder to shoulder with Black and brown movement leaders, grassroots organizers, student activists, doulas, nurses—all the people who shape the lived reality of reproductive justice in California.
When we say “justice,” we mean it in every direction. In 2005, we helped secure Assembly Bill 1285, which expanded affordable, quality childcare options in Los Angeles County—because reproductive freedom is inseparable from economic freedom. In 2019, we joined forces with students from justCARE: Campus Action for Reproductive Equity to pass The College Student Right to Access Act, ensuring that all 33 public university campuses in California provide access to abortion pills. And in 2021, we partnered with Black Women for Wellness Action Project to push forward the groundbreaking Momnibus Bill. That law is more than policy; it’s a lifeline, offering birthing options like doula support, expanding access to midwives, extending Medi-Cal care, and providing direct cash aid to low-income pregnant people—because no one should have to navigate parenthood while carrying the weight of systemic inequities.
Our Reproductive Justice Partners
This is what it means to co-create our feminist future: to build power together and move resources with intention: Through our reproductive justice grant partners and the Solís Policy Institute (SPI), we’ve helped pass nearly 60 intersectional feminist policies that advance health, safety, and prosperity for all Californians. But the work doesn’t stop there. It can’t.
Every law we pass, every barrier we tear down, every life we protect is powered by people like you—people who refuse to sit back while rights are stripped away, who believe in a world where dignity and choice belong to everyone. Your support allows us to act boldly and strategically in this pivotal moment.
Let’s keep shaping the legislative landscape. Let’s keep building a California where reproductive justice is not just an ideal, but an unshakable reality. Join us today by making a donation. Together, we can do what feels impossible—and then do it again.