Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee is offering free health services during the month of December. See the schedule below.
On Tuesday, Connecticut State Representative Deborah Heinrich told a crowd gathered for a press conference of being raped while in college. Heinrich, in support of a bill that would require all state hospitals to provide emergency contraception, reportedly stated, “Every woman in the state must be assured that when she finds that last ounce of strength, that last bit of trust that will allow her to enter the doors of the hospital, that no matter which hospital she manages to stumble into, that she will be assured of having the highest standards of care. For a rape victim, that must include being offered emergency contraception.” Heinrich indicated that only her immediate family had been aware of her rape prior to her announcement, and described the strength it took for her to seek help after her rape, stating that she would not have had the stamina to go elsewhere had a hospital told her to do so for EC. Read the rest of this entry »
As with the bills and resolutions listed in the previous post, full-text and details may not yet be available for these newly introduced items. The GovTrack links will provide status updates; if you’d like to follow these bills, you can set up monitoring in GovTrack or check the Thomas pages individually when they become available. I’m going to make an effort to go back and update posts with links to additional information/text when it becomes available, and will link to all previous legislation-related posts from each new one, so you can easily link back and follow their progress.
There are a few posts in the works, but it has been a crazy week and I want to take time to do the topics justice. Coming this weekend:
Planned Parenthood of Middle & East Tennessee will be providing free emergency contraception on March 20th at the following locations and times:
The Washington Post is reporting that the FDA’s 2007 operating plan includes full funding at $4 million for the agency’s Office of Women’s Health. Previously, it was suggested that $1.2 million would be withheld, essentially halting operations for the remainder of the year, which was perceived by many as retribution for the Office’s evidence-based (rather than politically-based) stance on emergency contraception. Read the rest of this entry »
Via Feministing, Emergency Kindness is a network to get emergency contraception from those who can get it to those who need it. The site includes info on Plan B, how the network works, how to volunteer, and a blog.
Check out the latest batch of posts at the new site:
For more recent posts and updates on the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, the new bird flu vaccine, the right to a home birth in the UK, lawsuits against the FDA regarding emergency contraception, and other news, visit Women’s Health News at its new home – http://womenshealthnews.wordpress.com Read the rest of this entry »