Rachel Bluth

California Healthline Correspondent

Rachel Bluth, Correspondent for California Healthline, recently earned her master’s from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. At Merrill, she reported on health disparities in Baltimore, and her work was published on NPR.org and PBS.org. She was previously the lead political correspondent for the Annapolis Bureau of Capital News Service, where she covered the Maryland General Assembly and Gov. Larry Hogan. She has also written for the Maryland Reporter and the Prince George’s Sentinel.

In California, abortion could become a constitutional right. So could birth control.

Rachel Bluth, CapRadio

Proposition 1, the constitutional amendment that would enshrine abortion in California’s constitution, would also lock in a right that has gotten less attention: the right to “choose or refuse” contraception.
Politics and pandemic fatigue doom California’s COVID vaccine mandates

Rachel Bluth, CalMatters

Even in deep-blue California, Democratic lawmakers pulled their proposed covid vaccine requirements before they had a vote.
California Plans for a Post-Roe World as Abortion Access Shrinks Elsewhere

Rachel Bluth, Anna Maria Barry-Jester

While other states dramatically restrict abortion and the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court weighs Roe v. Wade, California is preparing to absorb the country’s abortion patients.