Un-Glamourous Lies About Women's Health
Wendy Naugle
Deputy Editor for Health
Glamour
Glamour magazine's Deputy Editor for Health, Wendy Naugle, joins “Future Choices” in November 2006 to expand on the alarming revelations of their recent article, "New Lies About Women's Health." She exposes the many ways women are being denied accurate, up-to-date sexual health information as a result of political biases at state and local level. "
- Read the article in full. It is well researched and well written.
- Glamour provides updates reporting on what’s happened—and what hasn’t—since "New Lies About Women's Health" was published.
- As long as information about women's health found on some governmental websites can no longer be trusted, Ms. Naugle advises that we turn instead to unbiased private institutions who provide medically and scientifically accurate material, such as:
† World Health Organization (WHO/OMS) whose website is a treasure-trove of citations and fact sheets about reproductive health.
† The Guttmacher Institute A recent report from Guttmacher explicitly warns about medically inaccurate and biased material about abortion developed by some states.
† American Cancer Society whose pages on Breast Cancer (risk factors, prevention, treatment, etc.) are comprehensive and reliable.
† In southern Westchester County we can turn to the Cancer Support Team for much of this information.
† The American Sexual Health Association offers 'answers to your sensitive health questions.'
- Provision of emergency contraception (EC) to rape survivors in the emergency room (ER) varies by state and sometimes by hospital within the state. Despite EC’s proven ability to prevent unwanted pregnancy, many hospital emergency rooms do not inform women about EC nor make EC available to them. See the state-by-state rundown on laws relating to EC in the ER.
- A new study released by U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman finds that federally funded pregnancy resource centers often mislead pregnant teens about the medical risks of abortion.
- As Deputy Editor, Health at GLAMOUR magazine, Wendy Naugle oversees all health and fitness coverage in the magazine. See further.