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New emergency contraception works five days after sex - Feministing
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A new kind of emergency contraception, ellaOne, works to prevent pregnancy up to five days after unprotected sex. The EC sold in the U.S. is levonorgestrel, sold under the brand name Plan B;... More
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Will health reform mean easier access to abortion?
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In his recent Time piece on abortion and health reform, Mike Scherer confuses the issue. As he writes, under the current House compromise, both private and public health plans operating in the... More
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
Can Birth Control Use Change Your Career?
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With all the speculation about what led to the current financial crisis, it's not surprising that yet another study has linked testosterone with financial risk-taking. But this latest study, an... More
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Catholics, health care reform, and reproductive health
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Earlier this week, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards rebutted a post by U.S. News and World Report's God and Country blogger, Dan Gilgoff, who unquestioningly suggested that the Obama... More
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Latest religious right bogeyman: insurance coverage for birth control
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A new cause celebre is brewing for the religious right: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a determination letter to Belmont Abbey, a Catholic college in North Carolina, saying... More
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Rethinking the Pill
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It seems any criticism of the pill is likely to be drowned out in the anti-contraception and anti-choice noise. A new book by Jane Bennett and Alexandra Pope, titled The Pill: Are You Sure It's For... More
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Aborting Health Reform
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Without reproductive-health coverage, any public insurance plan is doomed to fail.
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Sometimes abortion is the better choice
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Aug. 3, 2009 | The Chinese coerce abortions, bulldozing houses when the family violates the one-child policy and arresting lawyers who defend women. The Romanians used to coerce pregnancy and ended... More
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IUDs Now A-OK?
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I’ve been looking for a new form of birth control for a while. The pill never really interested me—I was on it for nearly a year in high school, but the side effects, along with actually... More
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Compromise for Condoms? | Mother Jones
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In government health care reform debates, abortion coverage is the third rail. Should some abortion be implicitly, if not explicitly, covered? Should Congress promote the use of contraception? And if... More
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