Question 1:
What was the original name of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts?
(a) MassChoice
(b) MORAL

--> Massachusetts Organization for the Repeal of Abortion Laws
(c) MassNARAL

Question 2:
What Supreme Court decision legalized birth control for married couples?
(a) Planned Parenthood v. Casey
(b) Griswold v. Connecticut
(c) Eisenstadt v. Baird

 

 

 

Question:
Which ethno-racial group has the highest incidence of cervical cancer in the United States?

(a) Caribbean women
(b) Mexican women
(c) Vietnamese women
(d) Native American women

Vietnamese women have the nation's highest incidence of cervical cancer — a rate five times higher than that of white women.

Cervical cancer kills almost 4,000 women in this country each year, even though most of these deaths are preventable. Those most likely to die from cervical cancer include: black women in the South, Hispanics along the Texas-Mexico border, white women in Appalachia and the rural Northeast, and Vietnamese immigrants. (Source)

Racial and ethnic health disparities affect the reproductive health outcomes of women of color in Massachusetts. While barriers to reproductive freedom affect all women, women of color face unique obstacles that jeopardize their reproductive rights and health.  Women of color have higher rates of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV infection, higher maternal mortality rates, and more limited access to family planning services than White women.

 

NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts is committed to ensuring that women of color have equal access to high quality and affordable reproductive health care.  We support An Act to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in the Commonwealth (H.2234) which would create a new state Office of Health Equity to coordinate efforts of public agencies to eliminate health disparities and fund a disparities reduction grant program.