Do you know that almost 50 percent of all pregnancies in this country, including Charlottesville, Virginia, are unintended and more than half of all unintended pregnancies end in abortion?

Do you know that it is estimated that half of the unintended pregnancies in the U.S. could be avoided if women had information and timely access to emergency contraception?

On March 26, 2002, J. Blake Caravati, Mayor of the City of Charlottesville, signed a proclamation resolving "to encourage women who want to do so to ask their health care providers to prescribe ECPs [Emergency Contraception Pills] so that they can have them on hand as a back-up to regular birth control; and encourage all appropriate health care providers in the Charlottesville area to discuss emergency contraception with their patients."

Below is a picture of Sherri Barrow and Connie Jorgensen - with the Mayor and the proclamation - taken on May 8, 2002 by Mary Johnson.