What’s Good about Choice in Iowa?To top off Blog for Iowa’s contribution to Blog for Choice day, here is a round-up of some of the positive choice-related things in Iowa that our few remaining freedoms still bring us, in alphabetical order.
Cyclones for Choice: The first and only pro-choice campus organization at Iowa State University. Cyclones for Choice meet every first and third Sunday of the month from 8 - 9 pm at the Sloss House Center on campus in Ames. And they’ve got a terribly crude bang-up slogan to boot! Too suggestive to print on Blog for Iowa. Click here to read it!
Emma Goldman Clinic: This Iowa City clinic promotes participatory health care, informed decision making, client rights, advocacy for women, and expansion and support of women's choices. Their website provides pro-choice resources and options, information on non-surgical abortions, national reproductive rights organizations, sexual health information resources, eastern Iowa feminist organizations, national feminist organizations, feminist magazines and online feminist journals. By far, this is the most comprehensive resource list I've ever seen.
Insurance Coverage for Contraception: Iowa law requires health insurance plans that cover prescription drugs to provide the same coverage for contraception. If a health insurance plan provides coverage for outpatient prescription drugs or devices or outpatient services, it must provide coverage for Food and Drug Administration-approved prescription contraceptive drugs or devices and outpatient contraceptive services. (Source)
Medical Students for Choice: This group was formed to ensure that new doctors are fully trained to meet the reproductive health needs of women. Key issues include addressing the provider shortage and the lack of training/coverage in med school curricula. Iowa is included in Region 4 of the Midwestern states.
NARAL Pro-choice Iowa: Their mission is to develop and sustain a constituency that uses the political process to guarantee every woman the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, choosing legal abortion, and having a healthy pregnancy. Learn about the issues here or look up activities/events on their calendar.
Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa: The PPGI agency offers a full range of quality reproductive health care services to residents in 85 Iowa counties and three counties in Illinois through 16 medical centers and an education and resource center. You can contact PPGI if you need medical attention related to reproductive health and contraception.
Pro-Choice Panthers: This University of Northern Iowa student organization is an abortion and reproductive rights advocacy organization created to serve the UNI community. It is affiliated with NARAL Pro-choice America.
