Advocacy
Advocacy
Our faculty and staff routinely participate in local, community, and national advocacy events. Below are only a few of what our staff are currently involved in.
- Conferences
- ACOG District II (representing New York and Bermuda)
- Vice Chair of ACOG’s District II, New York section 5 (Natalie Whaley)
- Organizes and participates in Annual District II Meetings (Natalie Whaley)
- New York State’s National Organization for Women Secretary and Rochester Vice President (Sarah Timmerman)
- Coordinate with Brigid Alliance, NYAAF, and NAF to increase patient access to funding for abortion care and travel to Rochester (Holly Pranaat, Sarah Betstadt)
- Physicians for Reproductive Health Fellows (Stacy Sun, Natalie Whaley)
- Member of Clinicians in Abortion Care (NAF APC cohort), Reproductive Health Access Project APC cluster, and Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health (Holly Pranaat)
- Media Advocacy
- Benefits of Birth Control |WXXI News
- How OB-GYNs are adapting to new abortion laws across states | WXXI News
- Why the movement to address pregnancy loss has grown | WXXI News
- My Life as an Abortion Provider in an Age of Terror (vice.com)
- What Does It Feel Like to Stop Birth Control? | URMC Newsroom (rochester.edu)
- OTC birth control pills have been around for a week (rochesterfirst.com)
- Anti-abortion rights group say that they can reverse the abortion pill. That’s fraud, some states say (cbsnews.com)
- Advocates rally in downtown Rochester on 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade (13wham.com)
- Abortion-rights supporters say worst fears may come true (spectrumlocalnews.com)
- Rochester residents commemorate Roe v. Wade 50th anniversary (spectrumlocalnews.com)
- Medical Students for Choice (University of Rochester)
- Faculty Advisor (Sarah Betstadt)
- Papaya workshops and provider panels
- Medical Students for Choice (Ben Gurion Virtual Training Institute)
- Papaya and LARC teaching workshops (Amy Harrington)
- Medical Student Education
- Medical Student Clerkship Director (Natalie Whaley)
- Second year medical student curriculum with the inclusion of reproductive justice component (Sarah Betstadt)
- Family Planning Clerkship Elective (Stacy Sun and Sarah Betstadt)
- Institutional Advocacy
- Expanding abortion access within the outpatient setting with NY grant
- Implemented contraception curriculum for neurology residents (Sarah Betstadt)
- Implementation of Outpatient Perinatal Loss Program (Ponnila Marinescu)
- Implementation of immediate postpartum LARC program (Amy Harrington)
- Expanded medication abortion services to the University Midwifery Group (Holly Pranaat)