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August 8, 2008
PRCH board member Pratima Gupta, MD, MPH, speaks out in a letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle against draft regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services that would restrict women’s access to contraception. You can speak out too: Tell Congress to block HHS' regulations and protect women's access to reproductive healthcare.

August 6, 2008

PRCH consulting medical director Anne Davis, MD, MPH, explains in a post on RH Reality Check that American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, and other professional medical associations have joined PRCH in a letter urging the Department of Health and Human Services to drop its draft regulations that would expand the definition of abortion. The letter charges that the draft rules “will threaten and restrict women’s access to reproductive health and birth control services.”

PRCH member Connie Mitchell, MD, also lambasted the draft regulations in a letter to the editor of the Sacramento Bee.

July 31, 2008
PRCH doctors are visiting Capitol Hill to ask Congress to restore reasonable birth control prices. For years, federal law helped college students and low-income women purchase prescription birth control at discount prices. But legislation passed in 2005 removed this discount option, leading to a sharp increase in the cost of contraception for millions of women served by university health centers and some family planning clinics.

Tell Congress to make affordable birth control accessible again for these women!

July 28, 2008
Have you taken the PRCH Membership Survey? The survey results will help us understand our members and develop new opportunities for you to be heard in the fight for comprehensive reproductive healthcare. Not a PRCH member? Join today!