Dr. Mollie Scott on contraception and public health

Posted on April 24, 2023April 17, 2023 by Jessica Wakeman

“Focusing on access to contraception so that women can plan their family — when and if they want to have a family — is really important,” says Dr. Scott.

Letter: Scouting new horizons after election

Posted on December 12, 2022December 8, 2022 by Letters

“I wish my election results as a local candidate were more consistent (in addition to better), because I would like to be able to figure out where my friends are.”

Letter: Biological diversity, contraception and density

Posted on April 25, 2022April 22, 2022 by Letters

“He knows that urban unit density helps car mileage, walking, bus usage and above all, affordability to frugal workers with far smaller footprints than lawyers, as do condoms by reducing demand and therefore rent.”

Wellness roundup: Birth control no longer requires a prescription in NC

Posted on February 13, 2022February 7, 2022 by Jessica Wakeman

Pharmacists in North Carolina can now dispense and administer certain medications, including some forms of hormonal birth control, without a prescription, according to a state law that went into effect Feb. 1. Both self-administered oral contraception (birth control pills) and transdermal contraception (birth control patches) are available. House Bill 96 also gives immunizing pharmacists expanded […]

Sterilization options to stay child-free

Posted on February 7, 2022January 28, 2022 by Jessica Wakeman

When James Brinkmann was 17 years old, his friends started having children. He witnessed up close what parenting entailed and he knew he didn’t want it yet. “I saw the adjustments they were having to make,” he recalls. “It made me realize and appreciate and respect the amount of commitment and the loss of control […]

Letter: The problem with urban food gardening

Posted on February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 by Letters

“All land served by sewer lines is desperately needed for housing, both to end homelessness and to save fuel by reducing commuting distances.”

Letter: A nonlocal double standard

Posted on September 24, 2019September 23, 2019 by Letters

“I object to the hypocrisy of your own local coverage policy as regards to greenhouse gases, which fails on grounds of being inherently global, giving them no place on your front page and vastly less place in local government policy than environmental contraception and abortion funding, which have vastly more local and regional benefits, such as the school tax and diaper litter.”

Letter: Contraceptive education can precede sex ed

Posted on July 28, 2018July 27, 2018 by Letters

“Of particular interest is the surprise that the Buncombe school system is ahead of the Asheville system in sex ed, despite Asheville not having viable fundamentalist opposition, unlike in Buncombe.”