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A hard pill to swallow
The Guardian
5 May 2008
The news isn't good for the morning-after pill. A
constitutional court ruling in Chile recently banned the public health
system from distributing free emergency contraception. In some parts of
the US, there are legislative attempts to make access to the pill more
difficult on the grounds that it is an abortion-inducing medicine. And
while doctors in Italy who refused two women emergency contraception
may face sanctions, there is no shortage of political and religious
leaders supporting them. Compared with these examples, emergency
contraception is pretty accessible in the UK, but pharmacists still
fall short in helping women get the morning-after pill when it's
needed. Read more...
Just get out there and do it
Freelance writing tips
28 April 2008
Blog entry about campaigning journalism and this campaign by Linda Jones. Read more
Emergency Call
Progress Online
28 April 2008
At
the moment pharmacists will usually only give emergency contraception
to the person who needs it and at the point of needing it. So if a
woman can’t get to the doctors or pharmacist after unprotected sex,
neither can she ask her partner, friend or mother to go for her, and
nor can she just go to her bathroom cabinet and use emergency supplies.
Guarding emergency contraception in this way suggests that women are
not able to work out when they need emergency contraception, and cannot
answer a few simple questions to determine whether it is the right
course of action. Read more...