FEBRUARY 20. 2009
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LINCOLN CITY’S INN CATERING
TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY
JRC: How does access to re
productive rights affect sexual
minorities?
NM: I speak for myself when
I say that there are some insidious
deceptions that are occurring for
the extreme right to get its way.
Reproductive rights are a battle for
privacy and the freedom to make
decisions about one’s own personal
life, based on one’s own ethics and
morals.
There is a clear comparison of
the efforts by the extreme right to
wage a secret attack on contracep
tives by couching it as an attack
on abortion in the same way that
[California’s] Prop 8 was an at
Nick Mattos spots insidious deception by the extreme right
tack on queer people couched in
that threatens access to birth control and same-sex marriage.
an attack on [same-sex] marriage.
egg meet to the moment a newborn baby takes
Freedom to make decisions about one’s personal
its first breath. People should be free to make that
life is a freedom that extends to one’s reproduc
decision on their own, and [health care provid tive choices and one’s inclinations about who
ers) should have good, clear information for their
they love.
clients so they can recommend emergency birth
control in particular situations.
JRC: What can we expect from NARAL
Pro-Choice Oregon in 2009?
JRC: How is NARAL getting this informa
NM: Politically, we’re engaged in ensuring
tion out?
that reproductive health care remains top-of-
NM: The first phase of the Emergency Birth
mind with Oregon’s legislators through a staff of
Control Access Project is a widespread phar
lobbyists—the first time ever that NARAL Pro
macist education project launched by NARAL
Choice Oregon has had lobbyists.
Pro-Choice Oregon in 2007. We educated over
We’re helping to bring awareness and solutions
400 pharmacies regionally, focusing on rural com to the health care crisis facing women—being un
munities. Then we discerned that pharmacists
insured and underinsured and having impediments
had a 78 percent increase in understanding how
to making decisions about one’s one health:
emergency birth control worked and a 36 percent
We’re also working to ensure that reproduc
increase in pharmacists stocking and dispensing
tive health is not part of the inevitable cuts to
emergency birth control in Oregon.
Oregon’s budget.
We are also working on phase two, provider
The Bush administration’s [“conscience rule”)
training. In 2009 we are engaging in similar work
indicates that the nature of the debate is chang
with medical providers, doctors, nurses {explain
ing. At this point choice is safe in Oregon, but we
can
’t speak about the future. ©
ing) what emergency birth control is and why it’s
different than an abortifacient.
To learn about NARAL P ro -C hoice O regon ’ s
The third phase is consumer education. We’re
spring theater series and online auction visit uww.
doing a widespread campaign throughout Oregon
prochoiceoregon. org.
so consumers know about emergency birth control
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