Feb 15: Women Demand Morning-After Pill Over-the-Counter

[Diane Monaco <diane.monaco@xxxxxxxxx>]

ACTION:
Feminists Pledge to Break the Law!
Women Demand Morning-After Pill Over-the-Counter NOW!

In Gainesville, FL
Sunday February 15, @11am
Meet in front of the Civic Media Center (1021 W University Ave)

In New York City, NY
Sunday February 15, @1pm
Rockefeller Plaza on 5th Ave, near 49th st.

If not in FL or NY, hold a press conference and give out the
Morning-After
Pill with other women.  Contact us, we can try to help you with press
release and publicity samples.

In the tradition of Margaret Sanger, who broke the law to give women
birth control when it was illegal, feminists will gather on February
15th (the day after Valentine's Day) to defy the prescription
requirement and give their friends the Morning-After Pill.

Over 300 women have signed the pledge to give a friend the
morning-after pill on this day, including Kim Gandy, President of NOW;
Patricia Ireland, former President of NOW; Byllye Avery, founder of the
National Black Women's Health Project and the Gainesville Women's
Health Center; women's liberation movement veteran Carol Giardina; the
Feminist Majority's Ellie Smeal; and writer and feminist Katha Pollitt.

With less than two weeks until FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan-a right
wing Bush appointee-decides whether this safe, effective, essential
method of birth control will be sold over-the-counter, women across the
country are uniting to pressure the FDA.

Please join us for the passing of the pills and a speak out about why
we need the morning-after pill over-the-counter NOW. Women who pass or
recieve the Morning-After Pill dose will be conducting civil
disobedience, but if you come to watch and support them - you are not
breaking the law.

We women will wait no longer.

For more information contact Stephanie at 352-380-9934 or
sseguin@xxxxxxxx or in NYC contact Alex 212-989-2109.

To add your name to the "Give Your Friend the Morning-After Pill"
pledge
email MAPconspiracy04@xxxxxxxxxxx