SAN FRANCISCO—Some 100 supporters of a woman’s right to choose abortion participated in a counterprotest January 22 on the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Thousands of opponents of women’s rights hold a march and rally every year here to call for repealing this ruling.

On January 24 the American Association of University Women and Planned Parenthood held a forum and march in Los Altos. More than 75 people heard Dr. Sara Kennedy of Physicians for Reproductive Choice explain why maintaining the option to abortion is a central part of women’s health care.

Kristina Casto, 23, of Watsonville and Ella Achen, 24, from Gilroy were participating for the first time in an abortion rights action. Achen said they wanted “to do something actively given antichoice legislation.”

—LEA SHERMAN