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Family Planning Funding: A Win-Win for Women and for Taxpayers
(www.rhrealitycheck.org)
In a time of economic uncertainty, unnerving budget deficits, and ever-worsening employment and revenue figures, it is understandable that the legislators and agency heads charged with setting the... More
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
CO Health, Family Planning Groups Give Thumbs Up to Obama Spending Plan
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They say it's a smart plan that puts the basic health of Colorado women and families back where it should be. Public health and family planning groups in the state have pored over President Obama's... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Fight Over Family Planning
(www.washingtonmonthly.com)
This is painful on so many levels. With his 2010 reelection campaign looming, Sen. David Vitter (R-Very Serious Sin) is beating his family values drum.
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Opponents of Family Planning Funding are Culturally Irresponsible
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Putting resources towards family planning prevents unplanned pregnancies, many of which would have ended in abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Many of us suspected as much, but this... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Australian Researchers Testing Spray-On Contraceptive (www.watoday.com.au)
THE contraceptive pill could be a thing of the past if a spray being trialled by a Melbourne company proves successful. The spray, being developed by researchers at Acrux, is applied daily to the... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |
The Future of Family Planning: Where Are We Headed?
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After objections from conservative Republicans, Congress quickly withdrew a provision from the stimulus package that would have made it easier for states to extend to women Medicaid coverage for... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Elevating Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Under the Obama Administration
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By repealing the Global Gag Rule on his third day in office, President Obama took a huge first step toward leading the world in addressing the health needs of the world's poorest women, children and... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Sexonomics
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Over the past two weeks there has been lots of public huffing and puffing over the inclusion (and then exclusion) in the stimulus package of a provision for contraception. Much of the discussion was... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
THE CASE FOR SEEING FAMILY PLANNING AS AN ECONOMIC ISSUE.
(www.prospect.org)
One of the more depressing findings out of the happiness literature has been that kids are about as good for a marriage as repeatedly keying your partner's car. When a couple has kids, marital... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
A "Pill" for Men?
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Sick of birth control's side-effects? Had enough with the bloating, lack of sexual appetite and risk of blood clot? Simply forgetting to take it? No, there isn't a new super-pill for women - its... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
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