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Community Meeting on Access to Emergency Contraception |
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24 Feb 2005
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Community Meeting on Access to Emergency Contraception
featuring a talk by Destiny Lopez, EC expert from New York
Thursday, February 24th, 2005 from 7-9 PM
Illinois Disciples Foundation, Springfield & Wright, Champaign
Free Parking, Wheelchair Accessible, Spanish Interpreters Provided |
Community Meeting on Access to Emergency Contraception
featuring a talk by Destiny Lopez, EC expert from New York
Thursday, February 24th, 2005 from 7-9 PM
Illinois Disciples Foundation, Springfield & Wright, Champaign
Free Parking, Wheelchair Accessible, Spanish Interpreters Provided
--> FREE hot chocolate, coffee, and desserts!!
--> A physician will be on hand to write emergency contraception
prescriptions for women who want to get EC ahead of time in
case of emergency. Come and get your prescription!!
--> The meeting will also feature EC Action Center, where you can
get active in support of EC by joining the campaign, volunteering
to be an EC Educator, signing petitions, and making phone calls.
If you haven't already RSVP'ed , please do so now at:
http://www.healthcareconsumers.org/EC/comm_mtg.html
PLEASE FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!
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The Food & Drug Administration has indefinitely delayed a decision on approving emergency contraceptive, Plan B, for sale over-the-counter. The Department of Justice has omitted EC from their protocol for treating sexual assault survivors. And many local pharmacies still refuse to stock EC. We need to fight for EC now more than ever! Come to the meeting and find out what it will take to win EC access for our community and nationwide!!
Destiny Lopez with the Institute for Reproductive Health Access, NARAL Pro-Choice NY, and the Latino Reproductive Rights Project in New York, will speak about the status of EC access nationally, about Latina women's organizing for reproductive justice, and about the significance of our local campaign for EC.
For more information, contact Brooke Anderson at Champaign County Health Care Consumers at (217) 352-6533, ext. 17 at or brooke (at) shout.net
Many thanks to all of the co-sponsoring organizations who make this event possible:
85% Coalition
A Woman's Fund
Association of Black Psychologists
Black Graduate Students Association
Campus Acquaintance Rape Education
Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society
Central and South American Student Association
Champaign County American Civil Liberties Union
Champaign County Health Care Consumers
Champaign County National Organization for Women
College Democrats
Critical Research Collaborative
El Centro por los Trabajadores
Feminist Majority
Food Not Bombs
Graduate and Professional Students of Color
Graduate Employees' Organization
I-Resist
Illinois Disciples Foundation
McKinley Presbyterian Foundation
Men Against Sexual Violence
Mexican Student Association
Northwest Chicago Choice
Northwest Suburban NOW
Planned Parenthood of East Central Illinois
Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative
Rape Crisis Services
School for Designing a Society
Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana
Socialist Forum
Student Alliance for Multicultural Education
Student National Organization for Women
Students for Access to Emergency Contraception
UC Independent Media Center Steering Committee
UIUC Office of Women's Programs
UIUC Women's Studies
Union of Professional Employees
United Church of Christ Campus Ministry
Women and Gender in Global Perspective
Women in Pre-Health
Women's Direct Action Collective
Women's Health Task Force
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