Stand Up For Women's Health

Here are the stories we’ve been paying attention to:

• Birth control now must be covered by insurance without co-pays:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/health/policy/02health.html
  
  
•  As will a range of other preventative women’s health care measures: http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/insurers_must_cover_birth_cont.html
  
  
•  NY1 reports http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/health/144097/new-insurance-plans-to-cover-women-s-health-services-in-2012
  
  
• And the National NPR story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/08/01/138893475/feds-order-insurers-to-cover-birth-control-free-of-charge-to-women?ps=cprs

• There are a bunch of letters to the editor in the NY Times in support of the ruling: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/opinion/l26contraceptive.html?_r=1

• And the Washington Post runs a great Q&A with a member of the Institute of Medicine on why they made the recommendation in the first place: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/birth-control-now-covered-goodbye-co-pays-hello-preventive-care/2011/08/01/gIQAD7AUnI_blog.html

•  RH Reality Check runs an op-ed by a girl who grew up in a very conservative household, and why bc with no co-pay is so important to herhttp://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/07/28/promise-rings-nuvarings-needed-contraception-without-copays

•  And GOOD magazine runs an infographic on the health care costs for women: http://www.good.is/post/the-cost-of-being-female-how-much-the-average-woman-spends-on-a-lifetime-of-basic-health-care/

• WNYC interviewed us: http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/aug/01/new-york-health-care-industry-weighs-new-federal-womens-health-rules/

• And WBAI: http://archive.wbai.org/ (scroll down to the 6pm evening news link from Tuesday, August 2, our interview begins at about 10:15)

• And Gothamist: http://gothamist.com/2011/08/01/your_insurance_company_must_pay_for.php

• And the Staten Island Advance ran our letter on birth control: http://www.silive.com/opinion/letters/index.ssf/2011/07/contraceptives_play_a_vital_ro.html

• Brian Lehrer had a show about which gender lies more about sex: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2011/jul/29/following-who-lies-more-about-sex/

• There’s a trojan sex toy truck coming to NYC: http://www.ktnv.com/multimedia/videos/?bctid=1080514661001

• There’s a lawsuit against marriage equality, though it’s being called “without merit” http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2011/07/lawsuit-taking-aim-at-new-york.html

• There’s a fantastic Op Ed in the NY Daily News about the introduction of the Global Gag Rule: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/08/01/2011-08-01_keep_the_gag_off_womens_rights.html

• The FDA issues a warning about the non-FDA approved, possibly counterfeit emergency contraceptive drug, Evital: http://www.atlanticdrugs.com/news/counterfeit-birth-control-871.html

• Which, apparently, is targeting Latino communities: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/01/fda-warns-of-counterfeit-morning-after-pill/

• Americans show a growing support for abortion rights: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/womens-health/articles/2011/07/26/americans-show-rising-support-for-abortion-rights-poll

•  A new study shows that medication abortions via telemedicine are safe and effective: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/26/us-abortion-pill-idUSTRE76P78E20110726

• And another study shows that IUD users have fewer repeat abortions: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/27/us-iud-abortions-idUSTRE76Q6RZ20110727

• And another new study shows that boys who masturbate are more likely to practice safe sex: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/01/us-masturbate-idUSTRE7705VM20110801

• There’s a huge profile of James Okeefe in the nytimes Sunday magazine: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/magazine/stinger-james-okeefes-greatest-hits.html?seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimes&pagewanted=all

• Interesting piece in the Huffington Post on the need for sex ed for older adults: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-d-braunstein-md/sexygenerians-why-the-tab_b_908729.html

• Lisa Belkin in the NY Times talks about teaching teenagers about sex: http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/teaching-teenagers-about-the-joy-of-sex/

• And NY Times ran a number of letters to the editor in response: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/opinion/american-attitudes-toward-teenage-sex.html

• NYTimes Modern Love this weekend was about abortion: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/fashion/a-lost-child-but-not-mine-modern-love.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
  
  
•  NPR explores how fair they were in the race and abortion story: http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2011/aug/01/abortion-debate-how-fair-was-tell-me-more/

• A Planned Parenthood in Texas was attacked by a Molotov cocktail: http://americanindependent.com/195910/north-texas-planned-parenthood-clinic-attacked-overnight-with-molotov-cocktail

•  Even though it did not provide abortions: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2011/07/28/a_mckinney_tx_planned_parenthood_that_doesn_t_provide_abortions_.html

• Salon lambasts the lack of attention the attack got in the press: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/07/30/planned_parenthood_terrorism/

• And Forbes lists the three weirdest things about the bombing: http://blogs.forbes.com/olgakhazan/2011/08/02/the-three-weirdest-things-about-the-texas-planned-parenthood-fire-bombing/

• While Alternet runs a great first-person piece on the effects of anti-choice violence: http://www.alternet.org/story/151791/imagine_being_harassed_by_violent_right-wing_lunatics_every_time_you_go_to_work_—_meet_the_brave_doctors_who_risk_their_lives_to_help_women/

• A  Kansas Judge blocked that state law to defund PP: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904292504576482291323260516.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

• Which could mean good news for other states: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/01/planned-parenthood-kansas_n_915513.html

• North Carolina now has a 24 hour waiting period: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/us/29brfs-24HOURWAITIN_BRF.html?_r=1
  
  
• The South Dakota law barring Planned Parenthood from receiving funding is on hold while it is argued in court: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/03595bfe56c044e597eee36c7a296d41/SD—South-Dakota-Abortion/

• The NY Times has a great piece on maternal mortality in Uganda: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/world/africa/30uganda.html?_r=1&hp

•  And MS. Magazine explores the introduction of the Global Gag Rule: http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=13146

That’s all we’ve got. What have you been reading?