Emergency contraception
Plan B One-Step®: Past, Present, Future
From the Champions of Choice luncheon, May 15, 2012: honoring the visionaries behind Plan B.
Contraception. The topic has become controversial in recent years. But should it be? Melinda Gates believes that many of the world's social change issues depend on ensuring that women are able to control their rate of having kids. In this significant talk, she makes the case for the world to re-examine an issue she intends to lend her voice to for the next decade.
Citizens of Miami County Kansas Launch Grassroots Effort to Restore Loss of Title X Funds
Local civic minded women gathered over $9000 from people of a broad political and religious backgrounds of both genders, to replace, for one year the money lost by the 3 to 2 vote of the Miami County Commissioners to not accept the portion of Title X grant money being offered from the Federal/State level, as it has for 30 consecutive years.
Winning in Wisconsin: Changing the Game With Innovations in Contraceptive Service Delivery
by Elizabeth Dawes, Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP)
April 2, 2012 - 10:07am (Print)
With all the negative attention given to anti-choice legislation passed in Wisconsin recently and Senators saying silly things, it’s easy to look over the fact that Wisconsin is actually winning when it comes to innovation in contraceptive service delivery.
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Back Up Your Birth Control
If you can accidentally text your Grandma on New Year's Eve, what else can go wrong? Condoms break. Pills are forgotten. Especially on New Year's Eve. Back Up Your Birth Control.
Back Up Your Birth Control Backup Day
by Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com
March 28, 2012 - 11:51am (Print)
You've got rights, for crying out loud. If you're of legal age to get emergency contraception over the counter, you cannot be lawfully refused on the basis of age.
Follow Heather Corinna on Twitter, @Scarleteen
Political "Science:" The Ongoing Battle Over Emergency Contraception
by Claire Cooper, Center for Reproductive Rights
March 28, 2012 - 8:49am (Print)
While Secretary Sebelius’ decision to intervene and block Plan B One-Step’s OTC status was shocking on several fronts, those of us at the Center for Reproductive Rights saw it as “déjà vu all over again.”
What’s in a Label? Why the Package Insert for Plan B is Wrong… and Why It Matters.
by Kelly Cleland, Office of Population Research (Princeton University)
March 28, 2012 - 8:15am (Print)
When you open up the box for your medication and unfold the package insert it all looks so...scientific. All of those chemistry diagrams, tables and warnings. You'd assume that labels for FDA-approved medications must be accurate and up to date, right? Think again.
Why EC=BC: Emergency Contraception is a Form of Birth Control
by Andrea Miller, NARAL Pro-Choice New York/NIRH
March 27, 2012 - 10:55pm (Print)
This year, the Back Up Your Birth Control campaign is addressing the lies head-on. Our theme is as simple as it is scientifically accurate: EC=BC. EC is a form of birth control. There is no controversy here, and the scientific and medical communities are unanimous. EC=BC.
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Sexual Health Roundup: Study Reveals Lack of Access to Emergency Contraception; DC's Successful Female Condom Program
by Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check
March 27, 2012 - 12:54pm (Print)
This week's sexual health roundup looks at two studies that focus on teens' access to emergency contraception, one that found free female condoms reduced HIV transmission, and one that suggests exercised-induced orgasms are a real phenomenon.
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