Authors: Laura Eldridge
60.
Wells, Creinin, and Rodriguez, “From American Idol to Plan B,” 337–38.
61.
James Trussell et al., “No Such Thing as an Easy (or EC) Fix,”
Contraception
78, no. 5 (November 2008): 351–54.
62.
Mitchell H. Katz et al., “Impact of Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment on HIV Seroincidence among Men Who Have Sex with Men: San Francisco,”
American Journal of Public Health
92, no. 3 (March 2002): 388–94.
63.
Raine et al., “Direct Access to Emergency Contraception,” 55; Chelsea B. Polis et al., “Advance Provision of Emergency Contraception for Pregnancy Prevention,”
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
(2008), DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd005497.pub2.
64.
Elizabeth G. Raymond and Mark A. Weaver, “Effect of an Emergency Contraceptive Pill Intervention on Pregnancy Risk Behavior,”
Contraception
77, no. 5 (May 2008): 333–36.
65.
Tracy Hampton, “Study Examines Effects of Advance Access to Emergency Contraception,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
297, no. 19 (May 16, 2007): 2067–68.
66.
Raine et al., “Direct Access to Emergency Contraception,” 59.
67.
Wynn and Trussell, “Social Life of Emergency Contraception,” 315 n. 3.
68.
Hampton, “Study Examines Effects,” 2067–68.
69.
Elizabeth G. Raymond, Jennifer Liku, and Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, “Feasibility of Recruitment for an Efficacy Trial of Emergency Contraceptive Pills,”
Contraception 77
, no. 2 (February 2008): 118–21.
70.
Lisa M. Williamson, Katie Buston, and Helen Sweeting, “Young Women’s Perceptions of Pregnancy Risk and Use of Emergency Contraception: Findings from a Qualitative Study,”
Contraception
79, no. 4 (April 2009): 310–15.
71.
Svetlana Osadchuk, “Simply an Issue of Control,”
Moscow Times
, April 16, 2008.
72.
Colin Brown, “Over-the-Counter Pill Plan,”
Independent
, December 13, 2007.
73.
Cathy O’Leary, “Call for No-Script Contraceptive Pills Boosted by British Trial,”
West Australian
, December 11, 2008, 55.
74.
“The Case for Preventing Ovarian Cancer,”
Lancet
371, no. 9609 (January 26, 2008): 275.
75.
Ibid.
76.
Quoted in Cathy O’Leary, “Push to Sell Pill Over the Counter,”
West Australian
, January 26, 2008, 1.
77.
Amy Allina, interview with author, October 2, 2009.
78.
Quoted in Lucy Cockcroft, “Easy Access to Pill ‘Will Not Cut Teen Pregnancies,’ ”
Daily Telegraph
, December 24, 2008, 8.
79.
Ibid.
80.
Amy Allina, interview with author, October 2, 2009.
81.
Guttmacher Institute, “State Policies in Brief as of July 1, 2008, Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives,”
www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_ICC.pdf
. July 14, 2008.
82.
“Contraception,” Law Students for Reproductive Justice: Fact Sheet, 2008.
83.
Guttmacher Institute, “State Policies in Brief.”
84.
Rachel Benson Gold, “Stronger Together: Medicaid, Title X Bring Different Strengths to Family Planning Effort,”
Guttmacher Policy Review
10, no. 2 (Spring 2007): 13–18,
http://guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/10/2/gpr100213.html
.
85.
Gretchen Borchelt, speech delivered to Law Students for Reproductive Justice at the 2009 DC/South Regional Conference (Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, February 8, 2009).
Chapter Eight: Running in Cycles
1.
J. Lindholm and E. Husted Nielsen, “Pituitary-Gonadal Axis: Historical Notes,”
Pituitary
12, no. 3 (September 2009): 227.
2.
Helen Blackman, “Embryological and Agricultural Constructions of the Menstrual Cycle, 1890–1910,” in
Menstruation: A Cultural History
, ed. Andrew Shail and Gillian Howie (New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2005), 119–20.
3.
Janet Farrell Brodie,
Contraception and Abortion in 19th-Century America
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994), 80–81.
4.
Robert Jütte,
Contraception: A History
(Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2008), 204.
5.
Katie Singer,
The Garden of Fertility
(New York: Avery, 2004), 226–27.
6.
The descriptions I offer of each method are not comprehensive. Before using any method of birth control—natural or otherwise—you should always talk to your doctor or health care professional. This chapter is not intended to serve as a guide to these practices.
7.
Marianne C. Burkhart et al., “Incidence of Irregular Cycles among Mayan Women Who Reported Having Regular Cycles: Implications for Fertility Awareness Methods,”
Contraception
59, no. 4 (April 1999): 271.
8.
Ibid., 274.
9.
Marcos Arévalo, Irit Sinai, and Victoria Jennings, “A Fixed Formula to Define the Fertile Window of the Menstrual Cycle as the Basis of a Simple Method of Natural Family Planning,”
Contraception
60, no. 6 (December 1999): 357–60.
10.
James N. Gribble, “The Standard Days Method of Family Planning: A Response to Cairo,”
International Family Planning Perspectives
29, no. 4 (December 2003): 188–91.
11.
Quoted in Alison Stein Wellner, “A New Bead on Birth Control,”
Washington Post
, July 13, 2004, HE01.
12.
Marcos Arévalo, Victoria Jennings, and Irit Sinai, “Efficacy of a New Method of Family Planning: The Standard Days Method,”
Contraception
65, no. 5 (May 2002): 336.
13.
Irit Sinai, Victoria Jennings, and Marcos Arévalo, “The Importance of Screening and Monitoring: The Standard Days Method and Cycle Regularity,”
Contraception
69, no. 3 (March 2004): 201–6.
14.
Wellner, “New Bead on Birth Control,” HE01.
15.
Toni Weschler, interview with author, March 19, 2009.
16.
Feminist Women’s Health Center, “Fertility Awareness,”
http://www.birth-control-comparison.info/fam.htm
.
17.
Katie Singer,
Honoring Our Cycles: A Natural Family Planning Workbook
(Winona Lake, IN: New Trends Publishing, 2006), 24.
18.
D. B. Dunson, I. Sinai, and B. Colombo, “The Relationship between Cervical Secretions and the Daily Probabilities of Pregnancy: Effectiveness of the Two Day Algorithm,”
Human Reproduction 1
6, no. 11 (November 2001): 2278–82.
19.
Marcos Arévalo et al., “Efficacy of the New TwoDay Method of Family Planning,”
Fertility and Sterility
82, no. 4 (October 2004): 885.
20.
Ibid.
21.
Katie Singer, “Cycles of Hot and Cold: Trying to Learn Fertility Awareness in North America,” in
For Women Only!
ed. Gary Null and Barbara Seaman (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000), 1115.
22.
Ibid., 1117.
23.
Toni Weschler,
Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control and Pregnancy Achievement
(New York: HarperCollins, 2000).
24.
Richard J. Fehring, Kathleen Raviele, and Mary Schneider, “A Comparison of the Fertile Phase as Determined by the Clearplan Easy Fertility Monitor and Self-Assessment of Cervical Mucus,”
Contraception
69, no. 1 (January 2004): 9–14.
25.
Weschler, interview with author.
26.
Weschler,
Taking Charge of Your Fertility
, 78.
27.
P. Frank-Herrmann et al., “The Effectiveness of a Fertility Awareness Based Method to Avoid Pregnancy in Relation to a Couple’s Sexual Behaviour During the Fertile Time: A Prospective Longitudinal Study,”
Human Reproduction
22, no. 5 (May 2007): 1310–19.
28.
Quoted in “Natural Family Planning Method as Effective as Contraceptive Pill, New Research Finds,”
ScienceDaily
, February 21, 2007,
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070221065200.htm
(accessed February 16, 2009).
29.
James Trussell, “Contraceptive Failure in the United States,”
Contraception
70, no. 2 (August 2004): 90.
30.
David A. Grimes et al., “Fertility Awareness-Based Methods for Contraception: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials,”
Contraception
72, no. 2 (August 2005): 85–90.
31.
Weschler,
Taking Charge of Your Fertility
, 128.
32.
Toni Weschler,
Cycle Savvy: The Smart Teen’s Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body
(New York: Collins, 2006).
33.
Quoted in Maia Szalavitz, “Girls Fertility Chartbook Stirs Debate,”
Washington Post
, March 20, 2007.
34.
Catherine Price, “Fertility Charting 101,”
Salon.com
, March 20, 2007,
www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/03/20/cycle_savvy/print.html
.
35.
Beth Roth, “Fertility Awareness as a Component of Sexuality Education: Preliminary Research Findings with Adolescents,”
Nurse Practitioner
18, no. 3 (March 1993): 47.