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Health Women took the opportunity to educate themselves about ways to prevent pregnancy at a meeting on Monday at Western Michigan University. The program was an informal discussion designed for women students put on by Women Speak! A program that explores issues that are central to the lives of women. Women’s resources and services, a unit of student activities and leadership programs sponsor the program. The meeting answered the question of what’s new in preventing pregnancy, besides the pill and condoms. Speakers Heather Riley, a sexual heath peer educator at Sindecuse Health Center, and Joy Brychta, RNC, women’s health nurse practitioner and Director of client services at Planned Parenthood, educated and answered questions during the meeting. “I found this discussion very helpful and informative, I didn’t realize the strides doctors were making in women’s health,” said WMU senior Rachel Wiseman, a biomedical major. Wiseman attended the discussion for extra credit opportunities for a women’s studies class. The focus of the discussion was about new methods to preventing pregnancy and some older ones. Brychta answered many questions pertaining to abortion. She explained the differences between medical and surgical abortion and emergency contraception. According to Brychta and informational packets provided by Planned women’s, abortion, women, pregnancy, discussion, health, planned, parenthood, brychta, about, students, said, program, pills, meeting, different, answered, wmu, wiseman, way, wagnor, understand, types, two, took, surgical, surgery, student, speak, sindecuse, services, riley, resources, questions