Local Activist
Groups:
Coordinated Community Response Council is
an organization whose mission is to make Santa Fe be the safest
city in the U.S. by 2012. NOW has a workgroup within CCRC.
NARAL
Pro-Choice NM continue to fight for the reproductive
rights of New Mexicans.
Kate Buckley has written a stirring novel called
'Choices' about date rape,
teen pregnancy and life choices.
Women's Resources
From the Annual Manual of the Santa Fe
Reporter
Women's
Health
The Women's Health
Advisory Council, created in March 2006 by Gov. Richardson,
continues to have a strong voice in women's health issues in the
state. On April 9, 2008, the WHAC sponsored its second annual
Women's Health Policy Forum, entitled "Unnatural Causes: Is
Inequity Making Us Sick? A Sex and Gender Analysis of Inequities in
Health." Also in the news this past year: the HPV vaccine. The WHAC
position paper on this controversial subject urges availability of
the vaccine for young women before they are sexually
active.
Dr. Lucia Cies
This local doctor offers
reproductive health care and outpatient abortion services, as well
as inpatient abortion services for high-risk patients.
465 St. Michael's Drive, Suite 106, 983-1213,
800-525-2207
Emergency Contraception Hotline
The hotline
provides confidential information on nearby medical providers and
pharmacists who are licensed to provide emergency
contraception.
888-NOT-2-LAT (888-668-2528)
Fitness Plus
This
women-only gym, fitness center and movement studio also offers
Oriental medicine, acupuncture, naprapathic and homeopathic
health-care services.
1119 Calle del Cielo, 473-7315
Planned
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
offers birth control, pregnancy planning, emercency contraception
and education about abortion, STDs and safe sex. All this and free
condoms, to boot!
514 Onate Place, 982-3684
Saint Francis Midwifery
Licensed, experienced
midwives provide perinatal care including natural birth, home birth
and birthing classes.
61 Double Arrow Road, Suite A, 982-4904
Santa Fe Rape
Crisis and Trauma Treatment
Center
This organization
operates a crisis hotline and other programs for survivors of
assault, abuse and trauma.
988-1951
Women's Health Services Family Care and Counseling
Center
WHS is a unique
health-care provider that balances traditional Western medicine
with nutritional, herbal, homeopathic and Eastern approaches.
Services include integrated behavioral health counseling, life
coaching, menopausal therapies, bone density testing and
acupuncture.
901 W. Alameda St., Suite 25, (ins Solana Center),
988-8869
