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Dispelling Myths About Contraception

Sat., 9/30-"We need to be vigilant to hold on to the gains that we have made in family planning,"

cautions Eve Espey, President of the Society of Family Planning and Chair of Ob/Gyn at UNM. "This is a time of very rapid change in terms of policy around family planning." Espey looks to increased control over timing of childbirth as a way to decrease our maternal death rate, which she says it too high.

Espey had been quoted in a NY Times article: Foes of Obama-Era Rule Work to Undo Birth Control Mandate

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/us/politics/birth-control-contraception-health-care-bill.html?_r=0