Sunday News Round-Up, OBOS-Style

This week I’m highlighting some things from Our Bodies Ourselves! Some recent posts of interest that I have up at the Our Bodies Ourselves blog: New Developments in OTC Emergency Contraception Court Case The Obama administration – via the Justice Department – is still appealing the order that emergency contraception be made available to women and girls of all ages without prescription. So far the courts aren’t really going for it, having partially denied a stay pending appeal. Please do carry the appeal as far as you can, Justice Department, so we can have more illogical testimony on the record and more court decisions agreeing that the federal approach to denying EC access has been completely outside the usual procedures and not evidence-based. Go for it. New Survey on Childbirth Details Experiences, Problems with (some) Hospital-Based Births (and some providers) Listening to Mothers III is out. Want to know how often U.S. women don’t ask their prenatal care providers questions because the providers make them feel rushed? How often providers use medical terminology they don’t even understand? What factors loomed largest as women chose their providers and hospitals for childbirth? How many women are still reporting having episiotomies or getting their pubic hair shaved at the hospital? Check it out. Reproductive Justice: The Movement Whose Time Has Come Some background info and recent media around the concept of reproductive justice, whic...
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