birth control

Today is Back Up Your Birth Control Day, a national campaign to raise awareness and increase access to emergency contraception! This year's action day is timely, as this past Monday a New York court ordered the FDA to make emergency contraception available without a prescription to women aged 17 and older within 30 days as well as to consider eliminating all age restrictions on over-the-counter access. Protect yourself and spread the word! Readers in New York City be on the lookout for NARAL-NY hitting the streets and subways to raise awareness!

The Netherlands may be known throughout the world for their quaint wooden shoes and their progressive drug and prostitution laws, but soon they might be known for something else: forced sterilization of women. You read me right, a draft bill currently before the Dutch parliament will, if passed, force women deemed to be "unfit mothers" to take oral contraception for a period of two years.