emergency contraception
Emergency Contraception: Coming to a Vending Machine Near You!
February 8, 2012 - 4:35pm (Print)
Students at Shippensburg University are able to purchase emergency contraception, condoms,and pregnancy tests from a vending machine, but the media and government backlash threatens the university's promotion of safer sex and the sexual health of their students.
EC Hard to Access for Young Women, Poor Women
by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check
December 21, 2011 - 12:30pm (Print)
Further proof of why emergency contraception just can't be kept behind the pharmacist's counter.
The EC Decision: Dismissing the Concerns of Latinas and Low-Income Women
by Ryann Dubiel, Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR)
December 19, 2011 - 9:55am (Print)
The Administration's decision to ignore medical and scientific evidence and deny increased access to Plan-B suggests a failure to understand and acknowledge the effects of this decision on Latinas, women of color, undocumented immigrants and low-income women.
Restricting Plan B Is Bad Politics
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
December 12, 2011 - 10:34am (Print)
Kathleen Sebelius clearly upheld restrictions on emergency contraception as a naked political move, but it wasn't even smart politics. Young women, a big voting bloc for Democrats, are insulted and will likely be demoralized by this decision.
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HHS Cowardice and USCCB Overreach
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
December 12, 2011 - 8:57am (Print)
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"Dr." Sebelius's Bitter Pill: A Case of National Malpractice
by Kirsten Moore, Reproductive Health Technologies Project
December 8, 2011 - 6:32pm (Print)
"Dr." Kathleen Sebelius prescribed us a bitter pill when she ignored overwhelming evidence on the safety and effectiveness of emergency contraception to prohibit its sale over-the-counter. Is this change we can believe in? It’s certainly not a “common sense” solution. President Obama and Secretary Sebelius should listen to real doctors and the FDA Commissioner, and make this decision based on science, not politics.
Denying Access to Plan B: An Act of Political Cowardice
by Lorraine Berry, SUNY Cortland
December 8, 2011 - 11:37am (Print)
On contemplating, again, what it feels like to be thrown under the bus by politicians who take women for granted.
In Emergency Contraception Decision, Obama Administration Undermines Young People and Women's Health for Political Gain
by Julia Reticker-Flynn, Advocates for Youth
December 7, 2011 - 9:39pm (Print)
In her bizarre statement announcing this decision, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius effectively blames young women for her own political cowardice, saying we can’t be sure that younger women will understand how to take Plan B One-Step effective. (HINT: It involves taking one pill. That’s why it’s called Plan B One-Step.)
Limited Access to Emergency Contraception: What Tanisha Faced
Tanisha, a student at Georgetown University, had to confront terrible stigma and a total lack of support in using emergency contraception. In denying young people access to Plan B One-Step -- and in concocting a lame excuse that dismisses young people's agency and their ability to make informed decisions about their sexual health -- President Obama is in effect telling Tanisha something she should never hear: your voice doesn’t count.
After the EC Decision, A Lifelong, Third Generation Democrat Wonders Where She Belongs
by Kari Ann Rinker, National Organization for Women (NOW), Kansas
December 7, 2011 - 2:14pm (Print)
Today’s news about our own Kathleen Sebelius’ overruling the FDA on EC for youth in need of pregnancy prevention is cause for a second continuous day for disappointment. This act serves as one more nail in the women’s rights coffin… jointly constructed by the Republican AND Democratic Party. As a lifelong, 3rd generation Democrat, I feel like a red-headed stepchild born of two blond parents, slightly out of place and wondering to whom I really belong.
