A woman should have all the tools she needs to stay healthy and plan for her future and her family —
including access to emergency contraception.
Not exact matches
In the end it will be up
to Ofsted inspectors and the courts
to decide whether the DCSF framers of the law are right, in other words whether the facts «not withheld» must
include how
to access «
emergency» and other forms of
contraception.
Despite evidence for the effectiveness and safety of
emergency contraceptives (ECs), 3,5,6,7 this method of preventing pregnancy is underused.8 Barriers
include lack of knowledge, 9,10 reluctance of young women
to request medication from their physicians, 11 denial of pregnancy risk12 and lack of timely
access to physicians or family planning clinics.13 As the effectiveness of
emergency contraception is time - dependent, convenient prescription and dispensing mechanisms are crucial
to enabling its use.
«With as many as 750,000 teens becoming pregnant each year, it is time for all of us
to take action and ensure our young people have information on and
access to affordable birth control,
including emergency contraception,» Richards said.
The bill
includes measures
to fully fund the nation's family planning program (Title X), expand
access to reproductive health care services through Medicaid, require insurance companies
to cover birth control if they cover other prescription drugs, protect the ability of rape survivors
to access emergency contraception (EC) in the
emergency room, improve public awareness about EC, and provide teens with medically accurate, age appropriate sex education.
42 Years After Griswold v. Connecticut, Women Are Still Denied
Access to Birth Control,
Including Emergency Contraception
Worst States for Reproductive Health
Access The following states impose the most restrictions to accessing reproductive health care, including defunding family planning, promoting abstinence - only education, limiting access to contraception (including emergency contraception) and abortion, and attacking minors» access to reproductive health
Access The following states impose the most restrictions
to accessing reproductive health care,
including defunding family planning, promoting abstinence - only education, limiting
access to contraception (including emergency contraception) and abortion, and attacking minors» access to reproductive health
access to contraception (
including emergency contraception) and abortion, and attacking minors»
access to reproductive health
access to reproductive health care.
As Carmona said in his testimony, the Bush administration silenced him on many issues,
including emergency contraception and comprehensive sex education — and the public was denied
access to the latest unbiased evidence on important public health issues.