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"Limya Harvey and Cydney Mumford set up a folding table a few times a month on
the University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA) campus to give away kits containing
emergency contraceptives, condoms and lube, or menstrual products like tampons
and pads. They typically bring 50 of each type of kit, and after just an hour
or two everything is gone.
The 19-year-old sophomores — Harvey is enrolled at UTSA and Mumford at
Northeast Lakeview College — founded the organization Black Book Sex Ed last
spring. Their mission is to educate students and others in need about sexual
health and connect them with free services and products packaged into kits they
distribute on campus, in the community and through their website.
“Both of us grew up rather lower-income,” Mumford said, “so there’s a soft spot
as it relates to people who say, ‘Oh, I just don’t have it right now.’ That’s
part of the reason we started doing this.”
Harvey and Mumford aren’t alone. A growing number of students on college
campuses nationwide are stepping in to provide other students with free or
low-cost emergency contraceptives, birth control and menstrual products.
They are also pushing back against threats to their reproductive freedom since
the US Supreme Court’s
Dobbs decision last year, which eliminated federal
abortion protections.
Although emergency contraceptives are legal in every state, some policymakers
worry that in states that ban or severely restrict abortion, access to
emergency contraceptives and other types of birth control may erode because of
people failing to distinguish between drugs that prevent pregnancy and
medications used for abortions."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
