Erica Sackin's blog

The holidays are upon us! Going home or getting together with relatives for the holidays is always a stressful time, but if your family members are the type who regularly protest outside the local Planned Parenthood, you know that this holiday is going to be a doozy.  Read on, and bring some diplomacy and understanding to the table along with that pumpkin pie.

PPNYC offers eight new year's resolutions to ensure everyone has access to affordable, high quality reproductive health care regardless of their income level. Resolve to do the same in your state!

Going home for the holidays is always stressful, but if your family members have been regularly attending tea party rallies, here's some tips for surviving those awkward  conversations.

What is emergency contraception?  And is it harmful to keep taking it?

You don’t need to take a break from the birth control pill, unless, of course, you want to. But you should always discuss these topics with your health provider to figure out what's best for you.

Will the pill give you cancer? No. Yet no matter how many studies have debunked this myth, it’s one that still persists. We provide the facts. Second article in a series.

The pill: What's myth, what's reality? The first in a series of articles on contraceptive facts provided by the experts.