A woman wearing a dark top and white pants stands next to a table displayng informational pages at a community festival.

San Francisco Tries to Mitigate Harm of Out-of-State Abortion Bans

Anti-abortion groups have initiated increasingly aggressive activities in San Francisco since the fall of Roe v. Wade, with some ignoring protective zones around clinics and even threatening violence.

In response, community groups, nonprofits and local government have stepped up efforts to ensure access to abortions and reproductive health support in San Francisco — both for people who live in the city and for those who travel here seeking help.

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A Community of Color Contends With the Navy’s Toxic Legacy

In the first of two podcast episodes of “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point,” reporter Rebecca Bowe traces the soil contamination plaguing a Navy shipyard back to its origins — 20th century nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific.

Environmental justice advocates, scholars and military officials describe their experiences battling over land redevelopment, and reckoning with the legacy of a radiation laboratory that sometimes used human subjects.

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Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans

In the second of two podcast episodes of “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point,” reporter Rebecca Bowe lays out what we know from scattered documents and a few remaining eyewitnesses about a Cold War research program that pushed ethical boundaries in the name of national defense.

Bowe speaks with veterans who describe their experiences as guinea pigs in field decontamination exercises that yielded little useful data, and talks with colleague Chris Roberts about what the surviving record say about tests involving injection and ingestion of radioactive substances.

Los Residentes Latinx de SF Lucharon con la Salud Mental Durante el COVID. Ahora Hay una Aplicación Para Eso

Este artículo está adaptado de un episodio de nuestro pódcast, “Civic.” Haz clic en el reproductor de audio a continuación para escuchar la historia completa. Read this story in English. Durante el punto álgido de la pandemia de COVID-19, los residentes Latinx de San Francisco experimentaron tasas más altas de infección y muertes, así como mayores pérdidas de ingresos y vivienda en comparación con otros grupos étnicos. “Perdimos nuestros trabajos. Mucha gente perdió a sus familias, amigos,” dijo Connie Rivera, quien tiene y opera junto a su esposo dos tiendas en el Distrito de la Misión.

A man wearing dark clothing stands behind a table with syringes and trays of other medical supplies. The words "THIS SITE SAVES LIVES" above "ESTE SITIO SALVA VIDAS" are painted in blue in large letters high on the wall behind him.

Overdose Prevention Centers — Nonstarter in SF, Despite Success in NYC

San Francisco officials appear to have abandoned efforts to open facilities where people can consume drugs under supervision — even as more cities adopt the model to prevent deadly overdoses.

Recent studies show that overdose prevention centers save lives, keep people from consuming drugs in public and do not lead to increased crime.