https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/prochoiceparlor/Information about birth control, emergency birth control and abortion, and how you can help defend our reproductive rights. Positive testimonies are welcome in the comments section. Note: The comments section will be edited. Anti-choice rhetoric will not be allowed. If you are not pro-choice, this blog is not aimed at you. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/prochoiceparlor/347793Did you know that the European Union currently considers condoms to be a "luxury item"? It's true! Seven members of the UK Parliament are calling for a reclassification of condoms from "luxury item" to "essential health item." This would reduce the VAT (value-added tax) on condoms from 17.5% to...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/prochoiceparlor/347048Did you that you can get that? You can in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Washington. In these states pharmacists can take special training courses and follow protocols, which differ from state to state, that allow them to dispense the emergency...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/prochoiceparlor/346727In yesterday's post I mentioned Medical Students for Choice. (www.ms4c.org.) This organization is dedicated to ensuring that new medical students are trained in all aspects of reproductive health care, including abortion services. You have probably already heard that a combination of violent...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/prochoiceparlor/346395This bio and quote is from the Before Roe page on the Planned Parenthood website. I have bolded a few points I want to emphasize. Jane Hodgson, MD In 1970, Hodgson challenged a Minnesota law that banned abortion by providing an abortion to a mother of three whose pregnancy was affected by German...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/prochoiceparlor/346049Here is your chance to give your opinion to a humongous corporation that actually wants to hear it! As you know from reading my last blog entry, the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy has ruled the Wal-Marts in Massachusetts must stock and dispense emergency contraception. Wal-Mart is now...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/prochoiceparlor/345258On February 2 I wrote about the court case in which Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts, NARAL and Jane Doe, Inc joined forces to sue Wal-Mart for failing to stock emergency contraception pills in its pharmacies. Today (February 14) the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy declared that Wal-Mart is...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/prochoiceparlor/344822.... probably drop the ball on it. But it's worth a shot, I guess. In a very confusing attempt to raise awareness about the importance of reproductive rights, NARAL is trying to turn the fact that 98% of all American women use or have used some form of birth control into a call for national unity...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/prochoiceparlor/344436February 14 - 21 is National Condom Week! I have no idea why it goes Tuesday to Tuesday rather than Monday to Monday. For information about condom use, go to this page of the website of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/prochoiceparlor/344121The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals have a tool that helps you discover which birth control methods are best for you. You can find it at http://www.arhp.org/patienteducation/interactivetools/choosing/index.cfm?ID=275 I tried it, and it was accurate for me!https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/prochoiceparlor/343721Go to the "who decides?" feature of the NARAL website: http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/choice-action-center/in_your_state/who-decides/state-profiles/ There you can click on your state and learn the anti-choice, pro-choice and other relevant laws. You can also see the positions of the top elected...