Topic: Women's Health:
Innovative ways to ensure access to quality health care for underserved women in the community
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Hosted by Marsha Murray-Lusby Read the dinner and discussion summary here
The conversation leader has selected the following questions and articles for consideration:
Articles:
Well Woman Standard: Healthy Women, Healthy Babies, Healthy Families
Prevention First to EBC Access Accomplishments
Questions:
- Keeping in mind that 50% of pregnancies are unintended, that unintended pregnancies are the single greatest reason women fall into poverty, and that increased access to contraception and subsequent planned pregnancies significantly improves the health of women and infants how can we best approach the general public with the solutions to this problem while avoiding the controversies which often surround reproductive health and sexuality issues?
- Emergency Birth Control (EBC) is a second chance at pregnancy prevention, taken within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse EBC will prevent fertilization. EBC will not cause an abortion and will not harm the woman or fetus if the woman is already pregnant. Without the Viagra-sized television commercial time how can we increase the awareness and understanding as well as the appropriate use of EBC?
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Because together, we can do more.
