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Today at Ms. | April 7, 2023
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Young People Don’t Know Their Emergency Contraception Options [[link removed]]
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Back to school season at New York University (NYU) on Aug. 29, 2021. (Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty Images)
BY CYNTHIA HARPER | Emergency contraception methods are ones people can use after they’ve had sex and are concerned with becoming pregnant. They work by preventing or delaying the release of an egg from the ovary to prevent pregnancy after the fact.
With young people facing increasing constraints on their reproductive health, they need to be aware of emergency contraceptive methods, where to get them and how to use them. However, the vast majority of providers aren’t counseling young people about emergency contraception. It’s key for healthcare providers to inform their patients about emergency contraception, and to offer a supply in advance to have at home.
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April 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us [[link removed]]
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BY KARLA J. STRAND | My hope is that each of you reading this column will do some research in your own communities to find out where the threats to the freedom to read lie. Talk to your local school and public librarians. Call your legislators, sign the petitions, run for your local school board, raise hell.
And also, keep reading. Read the 34 books on this list or whatever else you can get your hands on. Then pass those books on to your friends, your kids, your friends’ kids, or donate them to your libraries and schools.
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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: How Is Life for Texas Women? Will Denver Get Its First Woman Mayor? [[link removed]]
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BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: New Zealand Women’s Soccer team retires white shorts from their uniform to address the period anxiety many players face; five women are eying the opportunity to be Denver’s mayor; during the 2022 midterm elections, Texas trended closer than ever before to achieving gender parity; Finland’s youngest minister to take office Sanna Marin loses her reelection bid; and more.
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