Amplify Issues - Contraceptive Access

Stand Up for Birth Control: Create a Valentine's Day Ruckus!

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:30:00 -0500

This week alone, you've sent more than 3,500 letters to President Obama and Congress asking them to fight back against attacks on birth control insurance coverage. And they have heard you loud and clear.

This morning, President Obama reaffirmed that women will be able to access no-copay birth control. If your employer has decided not to provide contraceptive coverage on religious grounds, insurance companies will be required to provide no-copay birth control coverage to you directly. While the Catholic Health Association has already come out in support of this solution, Republicans in Congress are only increasing their efforts to roll back birth control access.

Today's announcement is a clear victory for women's health, but the fight is far from over. It's going to be tough, but you have the power to make politicians in Washington back down from their continuing attacks on birth control. We all need to step up to the plate on this one.

That is why, during the week of Valentine's Day, we're asking you to help show support for birth control on your campus or in your community by joining the Birth Control for Us campaign and creating a Valentine's Day uproar!

TAKE ACTION: "Twitter Storm" Congress with #BC4US valentines.

Step 1: Click here to download and print your valentines (or make your own!)

Step 2: Take a picture of yourself holding your valentine

Step 3: Post them on our Facebook Page or email them to bc4us2012@gmail.com (*)

Step 4: Tweet these pictures to ".@SpeakerBoehner" and your Senators and make sure to include the hashtag #bc4us. To find your Senators on Twitter, click here.

So get out there and let's start a Valentine's Day ruckus!

*by sharing your photos via our Facebook Page or email, you give permission for these photos to be used for any Advocates for Youth materials, including but not limited to websites and printed publications. All photos must be of people age 18 or older.

Statement from Debra Hauser on Birth Control Coverage for Insurance

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:59:00 -0500

Here's a statement from Advocates' Executive Director Debra Hauser on today's White House announcement that insurance companies must cover birth control when religious employers object.

White House Offers Solution on Birth Control Coverage, but the Goal Posts Have Already Moved

Young People Outraged by Continued Attacks on Birth Control

Today’s announcement from the White House represents a good-faith attempt to balance the critical need for access to birth control coverage with exemptions for religious employers. We support this decision because it keeps the policy focus where it belongs — on women’s health. We will continue to monitor the implementation of this policy to ensure that it benefits all women in the ways the President has outlined.

Young women have much to lose if contraception becomes a political pawn in an election year. They rely on birth control to prevent unplanned pregnancies and for other health reasons. The recent attempts to politicize preventive health care put young women and their health at risk. Along with young people across the country, Advocates for Youth is outraged that a manufactured controversy has turned birth control into a so-called “election year controversy.” Are we seriously having a national debate about birth control? In 2012?

Now, we will see whether opponents of birth control, both in and out of Congress, will accept “yes” for an answer, or if they will resist this common-sense accommodation offered by the Administration.

Unfortunately, opponents of birth control coverage are not looking for a reasonable solution. Senators Marco Rubio and Joe Manchin have introduced a bill to expand religious exemptions for contraceptive coverage. Senator Roy Blunt is offering an amendment to a transportation bill that would allow employers to reject any preventive care coverage on any moral grounds. And, this week, Speaker John Boehner announced his intention to repeal all contraceptive provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

The Catholic Health Association has already accepted President Obama’s compromise. Birth control is not controversial. Birth control is common sense.

If opponents of women’s health and rights choose to reject this common-sense solution in favor of politics and ideology, we will not stand idly by. Young women can count on us to fight alongside them as we work to protect sexual and reproductive health and oppose the war on contraception.

Ensuring access to birth control is a winning issue with voters. It is a winning issue with women. It is a winning issue with young people. It is even a winning issue with Catholics.

Millennials overwhelmingly support access to sexual and reproductive health care, and they are paying close attention. They will remember those who stand up to protect, as well as those who undermine, their health and rights — and so will we.

A Politician's Guide to "Compromise" (on Birth Control)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:29:00 -0500

Here's a handy infographic and timeline about social conservatives' ever-ambitious War on Contraception. Help us spread the word — post this on your Facebook profile and elsewhere!

Click the preview below to see the image in full:

The Fight Millennials Never ExpectedBirth Control

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:00 -0500

As a child of the 80s, I realize there are many fights I’ve been lucky enough to miss because of the throw down activism of generations of women before me. From the right to vote to Title IX to Roe, women have been paving the way so that my generation and those that follow are not treated differently simply because we have vaginas.

But low and behold, in 2012, we are revisiting a fight that few of my generation ever thought we’d have to engage in: the fight over birth control.

When I was deciding what college was best for me, I looked at schools based on the types of degrees they offered, the quality of the faculty, the professor-student ratio, financial aid availability and more. I ended up attending Georgetown University because of its School of Foreign Service and the Jesuit ideal they espoused of “men and women for others.” While I, a spiritual yet unreligious student, was concerned about going to a Catholic school, I was reassured that the University did not push its faith on its students; it was only there if we wanted it. In fact, in my four years there, the closest thing to Mass I attended was the Convocation.

What I didn’t realize was that while Georgetown prided itself on diversity and inclusion of many faiths and beliefs (we had a rabbi and imam on campus as well), it nonetheless imposed its faith on female students by denying them access to birth control in its student health plans. Condoms were also not to be distributed on campus, except in our free speech zone, or “Red Square,” and by the rogue group H*yas for Choice (not officially affiliated with the university, hence the * that came from a lawsuit).

While students (Catholic and non-Catholic alike) at Georgetown have been fighting back against these restrictions for years, the fight has now gone national as the Catholic Bishops have decided that religious-affiliated employers and universities should be able to impose their interpretation of a religion on their employees’ and students’ health insurance.

To follow most of the media’s coverage on this, you’d think that the Obama administration is force-feeding the pill to Catholic Bishops when in fact, not only do actual churches NOT have to cover contraception, but you, as an employee or student at a religious-affiliated institution, don’t have to access this benefit.

Health insurance exists because it’s incredibly expensive to buy anything out of pocket-including contraception. Birth control can cost around $50 a month. About half of women struggle to pay for what can total $600 in a year. Making contraception accessible means that women are more likely to use it. Shocking, I know. And considering the fact that half of pregnancies in the United States are unintended and we have the highest teen birth rate in the developing world, you’d think access to contraception would be something we’d all agree on (especially those who fight to take away access to abortion services AND complain non-stop about low-income women accessing services like welfare, food stamps and WIC).

When I was at Georgetown, I had friends on the student health plan who were sexually active and went without contraception. After working with students at Boston College, I learned of a phrase that their sexual health group spent their time fighting against, “pull and pray” as in “pull out and pray you don’t get her pregnant.”

Because that’s what happens when you take away access to contraception.

Just because you attend school or work at a religious-affiliated institution does not mean you have to comply with the belief system of that institution. On the college-level, many of these schools brag about their religious diversity as a way to recruit new students-especially student athletes. Could you imagine what would happen to Notre Dame’s football team or Georgetown’s basketball team if they insisted that all students be Catholic? Yeah, right.

The thing is that the media is making this a much bigger deal than it actually is. Just because the Catholic Bishops are pissed does not mean every other Catholic or person of faith is pissed. In fact, new polling data show that the majority of Catholics support the Administration’s decision. When will the media highlight that?

Or what about the fact that in December the House held a hearing on this issue and a representative from the Catholic Healthcare Association had to admit that some of its hospitals already cover contraception.

At my alma mater, while students are denied contraception through their health plans, employees are not.

And in 2009, almost 90% of students at Boston College (70% of whom identify as Catholic) voted to make birth control prescriptions available from their student health services.

The point is, to Americans and especially young Americans, this decision is a big deal in the right direction. To listen to the Catholic Bishops as if they represent the views of all Catholics or people of faith is absolutely absurd.

Like I said before, I’m a child of the 80s. I in no way thought that birth control would be my fight and frankly I’m pissed as hell that it is. I don’t want the next generation of women to have to check into whether contraception is available or not when applying to the college or job of their dreams. It’s 20-freaking-12. We should be long over this fight, but please believe that young women will not back down.

TAKE ACTION: Are we seriously fighting over birth control?

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:00 -0500

NEW ACTION ALERT: If you have a minute, send a message to President Obama and your Members of Congress: Tell them to stand up for birth control access! See the message below for more info.

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Dear Advocate-

This year, you have already proven how truly powerful grassroots activists can be. I wish we had time to simply celebrate these victories, but the attacks just keep coming.

After an outpouring of support from activists like you, President Obama and the Department of Health and Human Services announced in January that they are standing strong by no-cost birth control. In that announcement, the administration kept intact a conscience clause for churches. While we believe everyone should have access to basic preventive coverage, the Obama administration has already provided a compromise.

TAKE ACTION: Tell President Obama to stand strong against attacks on birth control coverage. Tell Congress not to undermine women's access to basic health care.

Despite these clear concessions aimed at finding a middle ground, social conservatives are not stopping their relentless attack on access to birth control. Social conservatives — led, as usual, by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — have decided that if you're a student or employee of a religious affiliated organization, they have the right to deny you any medical coverage they don't agree with.

This view is extreme, but they're making sure people listen. If you look at the media, birth control is suddenly a "controversial issue."

It's 2012. Are we seriously talking about denying women access to birth control? Apparently, we are.

TAKE ACTION: Don't let attacks on birth control undermine women's health. Tell President Obama and Congress to stand up for birth control.

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has introduced a bill to greatly expand the religious exemption which would exclude contraceptive coverage for those with health insurance and impose a financial burden on women choosing to prevent unplanned pregnancy. The House of Representatives is gearing up to do the same. We need you to take a stand.

256 million people are guaranteed access to basic preventive coverage — including birth control — because of the Affordable Care Act. Since birth control coverage would guaranteed to everyone else, the White House must not cave to 261 Catholic Bishops and deny students and workers at religious institutions the same basic health care.

Sarah Audelo
Senior Federal Policy Manager
Advocates for Youth

Target Card Calls Pregnant Girls Whores

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:20:00 -0500

At a Target store in California, a shopper browsing the greeting card aisle was intrigued by a card that read, “Heard you’re pregnant,” but was shocked when inside the card all it said was, “Whore.”

In the handful of articles I found on this story, I couldn’t believe that the consensus was that either the card was funny or that it didn’t matter and anyone who was offended should chill out and get a sense of humor. Really? Shaming and bullying young, sexually active girls and young women about an unplanned pregnancy is funny? It’s no big deal that a girl was called a whore? Do you think she deserves it because she dared to make a choice of having sex without your approval?

Because let’s be clear here: this is targeting young, unmarried women and girls. Who would even think to call a married woman a whore for getting pregnant? Who assumes that a married woman getting pregnant is automatically a bad thing that she should be called names for? And who would call an older, single woman a whore for getting pregnant? Married women and older, single women are socially allowed to have sex. The fact that they have sexual desires and act upon those desires is understood and accepted. The same respect for female sexuality is unfortunately not nearly as common for young women.

When a young woman becomes pregnant, it’s as if she has done something horribly wrong. Calling her a whore signifies the stereotypes that she has slept with several men (which is also seen as something horribly wrong for a young woman) and that she must have low self-esteem because it is presumed that she lets men use her (which, though it hardly stops anyone from slinging this insult, also unfairly makes men out to be animals who only want instant-gratification sex and then discard the girl without further thought).

Calling a girl a whore for the fact that she had sex and accidentally got pregnant devalues the choice that girl made to have sex and devalues her ability to make a positive sexual decision. When someone is called a whore, they are being told that the way they have chosen to express and practice their sexuality is wrong. Teenage sexuality is not inherently wrong. But when we have a culture that believes that it is, then the girls who get outed for having sex by becoming pregnant face much harsher torment and ridicule than all the other sexually active girls. They somehow get more blame and are more publicly shunned.
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Weekly Round-Up: 1/15- 1/21

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:18:00 -0500

Each week, I’ll be posting a list of the most news-worthy and/or inspirational, informative, well-written, thought-provoking, and/or unique posts of the week. While every post and every contributor is valuable to our community, these are the blogs that I feel are must-reads.

January 15- January 21

Stats this week: 13 posts by 11 writers

You’re straight--why do you care about same sex marriage?- by amandainohio

Inside this post:

Amanda shares her story about how she became an advocate for marriage equality.

New study on contraceptive use and teen mothers- by AFY_EmilyB

Inside this post:

Emily discusses the consequences of not providing teens with the knowledge, skills, and access to use birth control effectively.

A Victorious Sigh of Relief- by AFY_Deb

Inside this post:

…the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced today that it would not expand religious exemptions to no-copay birth control requirements of the Affordable Care Act.

Thank you to everyone who posted a blog this week! You are part of what makes this community great!

~ Samantha
Community Editor

A Victorious Sigh of Relief

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0500

You did it!

After months of constant activity by grassroots activists across the country asking President Obama to hold the line in the face of pressure from social conservatives, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced today that it would not expand religious exemptions to no-copay birth control requirements of the Affordable Care Act.

Because of your work mobilizing on this issue, President Obama and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius decided to stand with young people and did not bow to political pressure. This decision is a victory for science, common sense, and young people in America — and it couldn't have happened without you.

Millions of young women at Catholic and religious affiliated colleges will no longer face barriers to accessing birth control through their student health plans. This decision is also a huge step forward for young people who receive insurance coverage through their parents' health care plans at religious affiliated hospitals and other businesses. The decision takes HHS one step closer to implementing the Institute of Medicine's nonpartisan recommendations that women's preventive services, including all FDA-approved methods of birth control, be covered in full.

For too long, young women's health has been treated as a political bartering chip in the halls of power. On days like today, it is incredibly refreshing when science and public health are able to survive the partisan politics of Washington.

All student health plans in the U.S. must begin offering cost-free birth control coverage in August 2012, and the young people across the country will be better off because of it.

Thank you for your letters, phone calls, and organizing efforts on this issue — and on so many others. I'm thrilled that 2012 is off to such a great start, and I look forward to continuing to work alongside you in the weeks and months ahead.

With gratitude,

Deb Hauser
President
Advocates for Youth

New study on contraceptive use and teen mothers

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:12:00 -0500

A new study from the CDC examined unintended pregnancies among teens, and found that half of teens who were sexually active but didn't want to become pregnant, were not using contraception.

Why weren't they using contraception? Some of the findings are troubling:

- Thirty percent believed they could not become pregnant at the time (even though about 90 percent of sexually active teens using no method become pregnant within a year of having sex)

- 25 percent didn't use contraception because they believed their partner didn't want to use contraception.

- 13 percent reported lack of access to contraception.

Furthermore, 45% of the teens who became pregnanct were using hormonal birth control or condoms. Since with proper use, pills are over 90% effective and condoms are 80% effective, this points to irregular or incorrect use of the method.

Misunderstanding of the possibility of pregnancy, lack of access to contraception, an inability to negotiate contraceptive use, and a tendency to use contraception sporadically or incorrectly: all symptoms of the mixed messages and embarrassed silence teens absorb about sexuality, both from sex education still dominated by abstinence-only funding and its legacy, and from a culture that both glorifies and vilifies teen sexuality.

A comparison to European rates of teen pregnancy, sexual behavior, and contraception use is especially revealing: teens in France, Germany, and the Netherlands aren't less likely to have sex, but they are far less likely to become pregnant and far more likely to be using hormonal contraception. That's the result of both public policy, and a cultural committment to honest communication around sexuality.

Most teens do not want to become pregnant. Society should be empowering them to keep those intentions, not throwing up roadblocks.

Artful Dodgers and Lying Liars

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:30:00 -0500

Thanks to Rick Santorum's comments about contraception, and his subsequent attempts to dial back those comments, one of the weekend's two Republican presidential debates contained a lengthy interlude about contraception. As soon as Romney was done minimizing the importance of something which over 98% of sexually active women have used, he managed to force out "Contraception, it’s working just fine, just leave it alone.”

That would be an adequate contraception philosophy if it truly reflected Republican, or even Romney's philosophy, but we know it doesn't. In the last year we have seen many attacks on contraception -- from the Mississippi personhood bill, which Romney wouldn't say whether he supported or opposed, to attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of birth control to young and low income women, which attempts Romney supports.

An even sillier lie in the weekend's debates came when Rick Santorum made this claim:

"In fact, he (Obama) has required programs not to talk about marriage, not to talk about abstinence, if -- in order to get federal funds."

This is laughably untrue. First of all, no federally-funded sex education program leaves abstinence out of the discussion. Funds from the President's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative must go to medically accurate and scientifically proven programs - all of which discuss abstinence as a 100% effective method of birth control and as a great choice for teens. Funds from the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (health care reform) must teach about both abstinence and contraception. No one wants to leave abstinence out of a discussion of sexual health, and certainly not the President.

But even if Santorum were referring to abstinence-only programs, which discuss contraception only in terms of failure rates (if at all) and have repeatedly been proven ineffective, he'd still be wrong, because as CNN notes, "the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced $110 million in grants in September 2010 for a range of groups, including more than $33 million for abstinence-focused programs in 29 states and Puerto Rico." That's right, another $33 million added to the well over $1.5 billion spent on drink-the-spit style programs.

Ah, but who expects Santorum not to be muddled. This is the same man who literally said that gay couples only live in certain states. It is going to be a long year.

Quote of the Moment: The GOP Seven and Women's Health Care

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:36:00 -0500

From The New York Times Editorial Board:

But the message from Iowa was crystal clear: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman Jr., Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry all stand ready to restrict a woman's right to make her own childbearing decisions and deny essential health care to millions of women.
The Republican field is united in its determination to overturn Roe v. Wade; to appoint Supreme Court justices supportive of that goal; and to end government payments to Planned Parenthood for family planning services, cancer screening and other vital health services provided to low-income women. The candidates also want to reinstate the global gag rule that barred family planning groups abroad receiving federal money from even talking about abortion.

Weekly Round-Up: 12/25- 12/31

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:02:00 -0500

December 25- December 31

Stats this week: 9 posts by 8 writers

Being An Activist- by abril_flowers

Inside this post:

An activist with the Texas Freedom Network at the University of Texas at Brownsville talks about her work educating her fellow students about the state’s current sex ed policies and what they can do to make sure their peers have the information they need to stay safe.

Mobilizing 4,000 for LGBT Rights- by AFY_Nikki

Inside this post:

Ernesto shares his experience organizing a solidarity event after an LGBT hate crime in his city with the skills he learned from training sessions with Advocates for Youth.

Trans* People in Philly Hold Clothing Bank- by Jordan

Inside this post:

Jordan talks about donating old clothes to a transgender-focused clothing drive.

807,615 Voter Signatures- by rikkiyouthresource

Inside this post:

Rikki talks about an initiative in California to gather signatures around the state to get a proposition on the 2012 ballot to repeal Prop 8.

Thank you to everyone who posted a blog this week! You are part of what makes this community great!

~ Samantha
Community Editor

Weekly Round-Up: 12/18- 12/24

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:55:00 -0500

Each week, I’ll be posting a list of the most news-worthy and/or inspirational, informative, well-written, thought-provoking, and/or unique posts of the week. While every post and every contributor is valuable to our community, these are the blogs that I feel are must-reads.

December 18- December 24

Stats this week: 15 posts by 11 writers

Sexual identity and preferences- by srijanna1

Inside this post:

Insight on the meaning of sexual identity.

The EC Decision: Dismissing the Concerns of Latinas and Low-Income Women- by Amplify_Staff

Inside this post:

Commentary on how Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ decision to block free access to birth control disproportionately effects poor women and women of color.

“Personhood” and Medical Emergencies Demystified- by ashthom

Inside this post:

Ashley discusses how “personhood” laws, in enacted, would endanger the health and life of pregnant women and restrict doctors from providing appropriate medical care

Thank you to everyone who posted a blog this week! You are part of what makes this community great!

~ Samantha
Community Editor

The EC Decision: Dismissing the Concerns of Latinas and Low-Income Women

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:58:00 -0500

by Ryann Dubiel, Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights

Editor's Note: This post was originally published on RH Reality Check.

With the recent decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to over-rule evidence-based recommendations by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow sale of Plan B One-Step over the counter, we once again witnessed the failure to prioritize women’s reproductive health, the continued politicization of access, and evidence of a disconnect of awareness by our policymakers of how increased access to this product would affect millions of women of all ages regardless or race or immigration status.

Latinas represent the population with the highest rate of women without health insurance; seeing a provider and accessing birth control is not an option for many women. Latinas also face a disproportionate number of barriers to EC. Under current rules, women face many barriers, including the requirement of a government-issued ID, residency in rural areas, high costs of the product, and lack of insurance. These rules disproportionately affect Latinas, their families, and immigrant communities in accessing birth control options.

We know that unintended pregnancy has serious economic and social costs, as well as costs to the woman, her family and the community.[i] In Colorado, 39 percent of pregnancies are unintended.[ii] These numbers are higher for women of color: for Latinas (47 percent), and African Americans (53 percent).[iii] And many of these unintended pregnancies affect our youth. We have found that one of the most effective ways to improve the success rate of female students in completing their education is to ensure they have access to comprehensive sexuality education, and to affordable medical care, including contraception, so they can make informed decisions about their sexual health.

Despite Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s work on numerous initiatives that positively affect Latinas’ reproductive health, she failed to work to understand the impact this decision would have on Latinas. This failure makes us question her awareness of the changing demographics of this country, and her commitment to family planning and women’s reproductive health. We encourage our amazing strong partners and other individuals embedded in this fight for reproductive justice to continue raising our voices, and ask the President to overturn this decision.

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[i] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2000, November). Healthy People 2010. 2nd ed. With Understanding and Improving Health and Objectives for Improving Health. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

[ii] Archer, L. et al. (2011). How Healthy Are Colorado Women of Reproductive Age? An Evaluation of Preconception Risk and Protective Factors. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Retrieved 17 August 2011, from http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/hs/pubs/Preconception3.pdf

[iii] Palacio, M. et al. (2009). Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Colorado 2009. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Office of Health Disparities. Retrieved 20 August 2011, from http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/ohd/ethnicdisparitiesreport/HD%202009%20Low...

My Part in the Condom Campaign

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:39:00 -0500

I am really excited to be a part of The Great American Condom Compaign. A friend of mine sent me a link to this website and told me to sign up. I've always been really passionate about sex education and sexual health among teens and young adults. It's mostly due to the fact that I am a "victim" of abstinence-only sex education. Luckily, I was one of the very few students in my school that decided it was better to learn things for myself. I really wish I had known then what I know now because I would have challenged the teacher and gotten the truth out to my classmates. I didn't have any help from home either; my mom's views about sex are pretty consistent with ab-only. In 10th grade, there were 5 pregnant girls in my school, 3 were in my graduating class. When I was a senior, 2 of those girls were pregnant again and another one of my close friends had an abortion. I don't know exactly, but if I had to guess, I would say that while I was in high school there were probably 20+ girls who become pregnant teens. Being a SafeSite is something that I think will help me a get a better understanding of how other people in my area view the importance of sexual health and how to address certain misconceptions, if any, that I may be confronted with.

The supply of condoms that I will be passing out at my university have finally sent out and I have already received the sticker to put on my dorm door to let everyone know that they can get free condoms from me. Since I have a pretty demanding class schedule, I won't be able to have very many actual events where I can get the word out about what I'm doing. I have, however, found a very fun way to put condoms in every dorm at my university. I'm going to make condom trees (small ones) and put them in the lobbies along with information about the condom campaign and my contact information on a poster (or maybe a pamphlet?). So I guess I'll be heading to Hobby Lobby while I wait for my supply to arrive.