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 at juno.com or in NYC contact Alex 212-989-2109.
To add your name to the "Give Your Friend the Morning-After Pill" pledge email MAPconspiracy04 at hotmail.com