[Peace] Community Meeting on Access to Emergency Contraception

[Brooke Anderson]

Dear friends,

The Campaign for Access to Emergency Contraception invites you to attend a . .

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      Community Meeting on Access to Emergency Contraception
      featuring a talk by Destiny Lopez, EC expert from New York

      Thursday, February 24th, 2005 from 7-9 PM

      Illinois Disciples Foundation, Springfield & Wright, Champaign
      Free Parking, Wheelchair Accessible, Spanish Interpreters Provided

        --> FREE hot chocolate, coffee, and desserts!!

        --> A physician will be on hand to write emergency contraception
              prescriptions for women who want to get EC ahead of time in
              case of emergency. Come and get your prescription!!

        --> The meeting will also feature EC Action Center, where you can
              get active in support of EC by joining the campaign, volunteering
              to be an EC Educator, signing petitions, and making phone calls.

      If you haven't already RSVP'ed , please do so now at:
      http://www.healthcareconsumers.org/EC/comm_mtg.html

      PLEASE FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!

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The Food & Drug Administration has indefinitely delayed a decision on 
approving emergency contraceptive, Plan B, for sale over-the-counter. 
The Department of Justice has omitted EC from their protocol for 
treating sexual assault survivors. And many local pharmacies still 
refuse to stock EC. We need to fight for EC now more than ever! Come 
to the meeting and find out what it will take to win EC access for 
our community and nationwide!!

Destiny Lopez with the Institute for Reproductive Health Access, 
NARAL Pro-Choice NY, and the Latino Reproductive Rights Project in 
New York, will speak about the status of EC access nationally, about 
Latina women's organizing for reproductive justice, and about the 
significance of our local campaign for EC.

For more information, contact Brooke Anderson at Champaign County 
Health Care Consumers at (217) 352-6533, ext. 17 at or 
brooke at shout.net.

Sincerely,
Brooke Anderson

p.s. -- Many thanks to all of the co-sponsoring organizations who 
make this event possible:

     85% Coalition
     A Woman's Fund
     Association of Black Psychologists
     Black Graduate Students Association
     Campus Acquaintance Rape Education
     Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society
     Central and South American Student Association
     Champaign County American Civil Liberties Union
     Champaign County Health Care Consumers
     Champaign County National Organization for Women
     College Democrats
     Critical Research Collaborative
     El Centro por los Trabajadores
     Feminist Majority
     Food Not Bombs
     Graduate and Professional Students of Color
     Graduate Employees' Organization
     I-Resist
     Illinois Disciples Foundation
     McKinley Presbyterian Foundation
     Men Against Sexual Violence
     Mexican Student Association
     Northwest Chicago Choice
     Northwest Suburban NOW
     Planned Parenthood of East Central Illinois
     Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative
     Rape Crisis Services
     School for Designing a Society
     Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana
     Socialist Forum
     Student Alliance for Multicultural Education
     Student National Organization for Women
     Students for Access to Emergency Contraception
     UC Independent Media Center Steering Committee
     UIUC Office of Women's Programs
     UIUC Women's Studies
     Union of Professional Employees
     United Church of Christ Campus Ministry
     Women and Gender in Global Perspective
     Women in Pre-Health
     Women's Direct Action Collective
     Women's Health Task Force
     YMCA at the University of Illinois.
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Brooke Anderson, Community Organizer
Champaign County Health Care Consumers
44 E. Main St., Suite 208
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone = (217) 352-6533, x 17
Fax = (217) 352-9745
Email = brooke at shout.net
Web = http://www.healthcareconsumers.org
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