Have something to say about birth control? The National Women's Law Center and Planned Parenthood are co-hosting a BLOG CARNIVAL on July 21, 2011.
Go here to participate.
What's there to say? Well, a lot it turns out since a key organization recommended that birth control be exempted from co-payments under Department of Health and Human Services rules for new health insurance plans. Birth control was deemed to be a "preventive service" and that allows the co-payment to be eliminated!
The opinion of the Institute of Medicine, described here by the Guttmacher Institute, is an essential step to helping women control their decisions to bear children without going broke. The Insitute said that the services are important so that “women can better avoid unwanted pregnancies and space their pregnancies to promote optimal birth outcomes.”
But, as those who engage in pro-choice work know, that doesn't seal the deal. Anti-choice activists want to make birth control as difficult as possible (because, of course, they say it encourages women to have sex!)
So joining the Blog Carnival is one way to draw attention to this important decision, to keep up the incentive and motivation for birth control coverage, and to speak up and speak out!
Posted by Cindy Cooper
Pictured above: Poster for Blog Carnival, July 21, 2011
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