Reproductive Health Issues phone Briefing
Wednesday, April 11
3-4:30 p.m.
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Chicago Foundation for Women is hosting the second of three telephone briefings designed to update reproductive health advocates and public policy makers about the latest trends and issues of interest to the field. The program will include opportunities for participants to make comments or ask questions of our presenters. We encourage programming around this telephone briefing. Feel free to invite community members to listen in at your call-in site. RSVP for this event by clicking the NEXT button above. You may also call (312) 577-2801 ext. 229 or email rsvp@cfw.org. Please mention the program's date and name as well as your contact information. This call will feature: Marcela Howell, vice president, communications and marketing at Advocates for Youth. Howell will brief us about the Responsible Education About Life (REAL) Act, which would provide federal money to support responsible sex education in schools. This education would include science-based, medically accurate and age-appropriate public health information about both abstinence and contraception. Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. They provide information, training and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists and the media in the United States and the developing world.
For a national and international perspective on access to reproductive health services, Katie Early, senior advisor, IPAS, will join us to discuss, “Increasing Access to Safe Abortion Care Globally: Challenges and Opportunities.” IPAS has worked for three decades to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce deaths and injuries of women from unsafe abortion. IPAS's global and country programs include training, research, advocacy, distribution of equipment and supplies for reproductive-health care and information dissemination.
Lorie Chaiten, director, Reproductive Rights Project, The Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc. Chaiten will update us about ongoing U.S. Supreme Court litigation and about the Midwest Access Project (MAP), which seeks to increase the provision of full-spectrum reproductive health care in the region through education and training of health care providers and the public. MAP connects clinical providers with under-staffed areas in order to increase responsiveness to community members' reproductive health needs.
For more information on the briefing, including accessibility requests (please give us three business days notice), contact Lynne Johnson at ljohnson@cfw.org or (312) 577-2812.
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