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Cast members of Showtime's hit series The L-Word are coming to town to raise money for women's services and programs at the Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia's leading LGBT healthcare center. Mazzoni Executive Director Nurit Shein says that in addition to medical services like PAP smears and mammograms, the new funds will support a progressive collaboration with Pacific Reproductive Services, a lesbian-owned sperm bank founded in California in 1984 to serve the reproductive needs of women planning alternative families.
"There's a double-edged sword here. There are women who need to access services out in the world with mainstream providers, and those women often encounter judgmental, non-supportive providers," says Brian Green, executive director of the Safeguards Project and LGBT Health Research Center. "And when they're not open about their sexual orientation, there are a lot of assumptions going on. Providers don't often ask questions that are deep enough to get at risk factors.""I prefer offices that don't need or want to give me a pregnancy test at every visit," says bartender Candice Archibald, 38, who also works at Mazzoni. "Last time I cheeked, I can't get pregnant, and it's always a little uncomfortable when I have to prove why I don't need one," she says.See the full content of this document
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Cast members of Showtime's hit series The L-Word are coming to town to raise money for women's services and programs at the Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia's leading LGBT healthcare center. Mazzoni Executive...
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