[ACLU-NM] Press Release: New Mexico students to promote the nationwide Back Up Your Birth Control Day on the UNM campus

[Kimberly Lavender]

~ ACLU-NM PRESS ADVISORY ~

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, March 19, 2004



Contact:

Kimberly Lavender, ACLU-NM Public Education  Coordinator  266-4622

Diane Wood, ACLU-NM Coalition  for Choice Representative 379-9470

ACLU Press Conference:
New Mexico students to promote the nationwide Back Up Your Birth Control Day
on the UNM campus


WHAT: The nationwide Back Up Your Birth Control Day on March 22nd  aims to
make emergency contraception (Plan B) more effective by putting it in the
hands of women before a crisis occurs. ACLU-NM UNM Chapter and NARAL
Pro-Choice New Mexico are hosting an education table on the UNM campus to
inform students about emergency contraception and to write letters urging
the FDA to make Plan B accessible over the counter.  Health professionals
from the Student Health Center will be available to answer any questions the
students may have about Plan B, which can be obtained on campus.  Students
will also be encouraged to fill a prescription and have EC in their medicine
cabinets at home in case it is needed.  EC is most effective if taken within
72 hours after unprotected sex or birth control failure.



 WHEN:   Monday March  22nd 2004 from 11:30am to 1 pm
PRESS STATEMENTS at 12 noon: Michel Disco, R.Ph., Associate Dean UNM College
of Pharmacy; Giovanna Rossi, Executive Director of NARAL Pro-choice New
Mexico; Rep. Mimi Stewart, New Mexico House of Representatives; and Dale
Tinker, R.Ph., New Mexico Pharmaceutical Association.



WHERE: Albuquerque - University of New Mexico, bottom level SUB, courtyard
south of Credit Union

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Kimberly Lavender
Public Education Coordinator, ACLU-NM
PO Box 80915
Albuquerque, NM 87198
www.aclu-nm.org




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