Abortion Pills in California: Your Complete Guide

Legal does not mean nearby

Abortion is a constitutional right in California, and that is worth a great deal. It does not shorten a drive. California runs about 800 miles top to bottom, and the places with the fewest clinics tend to be the places where reaching one costs the most: the Central Valley, the far north, and the desert counties inland.

If you live in Fresno, Bakersfield, Redding or El Centro, "there is a clinic in your state" can still mean a day off work, gas money, somebody to watch your kids, and the same drive home that evening. Rights on paper and access in practice are not the same thing, and California is one of the clearest places in the country to see the gap between them.

Care in your own language

More than a third of California households speak a language other than English at home, and Spanish is by far the most common. Whether you can be cared for in your language should not come down to whether a bilingual clinic happens to sit within driving distance of where you live. This guide, and the rest of this site, are in Spanish as well.

A note about delivery in California

The most common reason a package does not arrive in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego or San Jose is an apartment building with no unit number on the address. If you live in a building, put your apartment number in, even if you would rather the package go unnoticed. Without it, mail usually cannot be delivered at all and goes back. If privacy at home is the worry, a different address works far better than an incomplete one. Here are the four reasons packages do not arrive.