Who is the Morning-After Pill Conspiracy?
The MAP Conspiracy is a coalition of feminist organizations leading the grassroots movement to make the Morning-After Pill an over-the-counter drug. The name is a reference to the fact that women have to conspire to break the law just to get the Morning-After Pill. The FDA’s prescription requirement forces us to rely on friends who may have it because we cannot get MAP when the need arises. We started passing out the pills publicly in defiance of the prescription requirement on Feb. 15, 2004. Our campaign seeks to highlight the injustice of the prescription requirement, and we use speak-outs where women speak from their own experience, to show that women are the real experts on why women need unrestricted access to the Morning-After Pill. We have held speak-outs and handed out MAP in New York City; Washington D.C; Rockville, Maryland; and Gainesville, Fla. More than 2,000 women around the country have signed the pledge to “Give a friend the Morning-After Pill,” defying the prescription
