Choice words exchanged
By: Stephanie Kiszczak
Issue date: 9/22/05 Section: Culture
Ways of obtaining emergency contraception just got easier. Taco Bell now offers a morning-after burrito that, if eaten within 36 hours after having sex, will prevent pregnancy.
However, the new cheesy, meaty "Contraceptamelt" is still pending approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The side effects of the new burrito are gas and weight gain, the same side effects for all Taco Bell food.
If only it were that easy.
Writers of The Onion, a newspaper parody, wrote "Taco Bell Launch." The skit was one of 12 works performed in "Words of Choice." The touring pro-choice play, which showed at Webster University Sept. 15, was designed to introduce new ways of thinking about women's reproductive rights and right to privacy.
Webster University alumna Joan Lipkin, director for "Words of Choice," contacted Steve Houldsworth, adviser for Webster Pride Association about bringing "Words of Choice" to campus.
"I think right now we are in a very public, national debate over whether there is a right to privacy," Houldsworth said, adding he sent e-mails to other campus groups to gauge any interest.
Webster Pride Association, along with Students for Gender Equality, Women's Studies Committee and the Behavioral and Social Sciences Club teamed up to sponsor "Words of Choice."
More than 50 people ventured to the conference room in Emerson Library for the set of one-act skits.
In 2000, Cindy Cooper, a New York journalist and playwright, created "Words of Choice," a nonprofit theatrical production company.
"We want to help people start talking about this in other ways," Cooper said. "We really focused on this area and this time because there's really so much harsh anti-choice and anti-abortion activity."
In "To Hell and Back," actress Jacqueline Masei portrayed Emily Lyons, a nurse working at the New Woman All Women Health Care clinic in Birmingham, Ala. The clinic was the target of a 1998 bombing, which killed a police officer and left Lyons with first, second and third degree burns and nails and shrapnel embedded in her body, among other injuries. "To Hell and Back" was an excerpt from Lyons' speech at the 24th annual national convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
However, the new cheesy, meaty "Contraceptamelt" is still pending approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The side effects of the new burrito are gas and weight gain, the same side effects for all Taco Bell food.
If only it were that easy.
Writers of The Onion, a newspaper parody, wrote "Taco Bell Launch." The skit was one of 12 works performed in "Words of Choice." The touring pro-choice play, which showed at Webster University Sept. 15, was designed to introduce new ways of thinking about women's reproductive rights and right to privacy.
Webster University alumna Joan Lipkin, director for "Words of Choice," contacted Steve Houldsworth, adviser for Webster Pride Association about bringing "Words of Choice" to campus.
"I think right now we are in a very public, national debate over whether there is a right to privacy," Houldsworth said, adding he sent e-mails to other campus groups to gauge any interest.
Webster Pride Association, along with Students for Gender Equality, Women's Studies Committee and the Behavioral and Social Sciences Club teamed up to sponsor "Words of Choice."
More than 50 people ventured to the conference room in Emerson Library for the set of one-act skits.
In 2000, Cindy Cooper, a New York journalist and playwright, created "Words of Choice," a nonprofit theatrical production company.
"We want to help people start talking about this in other ways," Cooper said. "We really focused on this area and this time because there's really so much harsh anti-choice and anti-abortion activity."
In "To Hell and Back," actress Jacqueline Masei portrayed Emily Lyons, a nurse working at the New Woman All Women Health Care clinic in Birmingham, Ala. The clinic was the target of a 1998 bombing, which killed a police officer and left Lyons with first, second and third degree burns and nails and shrapnel embedded in her body, among other injuries. "To Hell and Back" was an excerpt from Lyons' speech at the 24th annual national convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
