Informing Yourself

Online Resources

Pregnancy Resource Centers:

• Alpha Pregnancy Help in Sioux City Iowa
• Birth Choice Pregnancy Center in San Marcos, CA
• The Pregnancy Care Center of The Merrimack Valley in Haverhill, MA
• Pregnancy & Family Resource Center in York, PA
• Compassion Pregnancy Help in Hollister, CA
• Education for Life Club in Crescent City, CA
• Pregnancy Care Centers in Crescent City, CA & Brookings, OR
• Pregnancy Resource Clinic in Lansdale, PA
• Birth Choice of El Centro in CA
• Pregnancy Centers of Central Virginia in Charlottesville and Albemarle, VA
• The Center for Pregnancy Life Choices in Ukiah, CA
• Whatcom County Pregnancy Center in Bellingham, WA

Online Counseling for Pregnancy Questions:

• Pregnancy Help Centers On-Line: Nationwide center search and online counseling
• CPC LINK: Nationwide pregnancy center search and online counseling

Pregnancy Testing:

• Epigee Pregnancy Help Portal
• On-Line Pregnancy Test
• Pregnancy Help Centers On-Line: Find a center near you
• Birthright Internations: Call 1-800-550-4900 24-hours/day
• Pregnancy Test: Order a pregnancy test from Drugstore.com and have it delivered to your home

Pregnancy:

• Epigee Pregnancy Information and Women's Health
• Kids Are People Too: Pregnancy info and links
• Books about Pregnancy

Sexual Health:

• Education for Life Club: Crescent City, CA
• The Care Center Teen Abstinence Site: Long Island, New York
• Medical Institute for Sexual Health P.O. Box 4919, Austin, TX 78765-4919; Tel. (800) 892-9484, Fax (512) 472-7062
• McIlhaney, J. S., 1,001 Health-Care Questions Women Ask (at Amazon.com) Baker Book House, 1998.
• Sex Respect: Respect Inc., P.O. Box 349, Bradley, IL 60915
• Books about Better Sex

Birth Control, General:

• Contraceptive Information Resource Comprehensive on-line information about all birth control methods
• Christian Contraception Birth control information for Christians
• Epigee Birth Control Guide
• Contraceptive Technology Update
• Religious Tolerance Opposing views on Birth Control Methods
• Pharmacists for Life, P.O. Box 1281, Powell, OH 43065-1281, 1-800-227-8359 or (614) 881-5520
• Chosing a Contraceptive Emory University, Dr. Robert Hatcher

On-Line Family Planning Aids:

• Drugstore.com Condoms
• ContraceptINFO Handbook: Order this handbook on-line
• Spermicides & Lubricants
• Digital Basal Thermometer: Order directly from DrugStore.com
• Ovulation Predictor Kit: Order directly from DrugStore.com
• Pregnancy Tests: Order directly from DrugStore.com
• ClearPlan Easy Fertility Monitor: Also made by Unipath and available in the US, the ClearPlan Easy Fertility Monitor determines fertile periods for women who are trying to conceive
• Babytech.com: Order hard-to-find technologies for birth control and family planning on-line

Natural Family Planning & Breastfeeding:

• The Couple to Couple League, P.O. Box 111184, Cincinnati, OH 45211 (513) 661-7612
• Kippley, J.F and S.K., The Art of Natural Family Planning (at Amazon.com), CCL, Cincinnati, OH, 1994.
• Breastfeeding Products: At ToysRUs.com
• Nursing Mother: Breastfeeding resources

AIDS & HIV Testing:

• Elisa Janine Sobo, Choosing Unsafe Sex: Aids-Risk Denial Among Disadvantaged Women, 1995.
• AIDS Information Hotline (CDC): 1-800-342-2437
• JAMA AIDS Information Center
• HIV/AIDS Hotline 1-800-922-AIDS

Abortion:

• William Dudley (Editor), Pregnancy: Teen Decisions, Greenhaven Press, 2001.
• More books about Abortion

Rape or Sexual Abuse:

• Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network: 1-800-656-HOPE
• CPCWORLD: Help for sexual abuse, crisis pregnancy resources, adoption resources, marriage survey
• E. Sue Blume, Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women (at Amazon.com), 1998.

Mental Health:

• BrainPhysics OCD Site: Help for obsessive-compulsive disorder and related spectrum disorers
• Epigee Women's Resource: Information about mental disorders common in women
• NeuroticPlanet OCD Discussion Forum

Physicians:

• Association of Reproductive Health Professionals

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