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New emergency contraception works five days after sex - Feministing
(www.feministing.com)
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
Submitted about 1 month ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
While health reform falters, mammogram debate still rages
(iowaindependent.com)
When a preventive-health panel stirred a storm last November by scaling back its guidelines for breast cancer screening among 40-somethings, Congress was quick to intervene. Indeed, it took just 17... More
Submitted about 1 month ago by AlisonHamm | 0 Comments |
Women Not Covered (www.newyorker.com)
A clear understanding of the structure of the health-care proposals currently under consideration shows why the Stupak amendment is such a threat to abortion rights.
Submitted 3 months ago by DaveJ | 0 Comments |
Senate Passes Women’s Health Amendment (prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com)
Breaking a three-day stalemate, the Senate approved an amendment to its health care legislation that would require insurance companies to offer free mammograms and other preventive services to women.
Submitted 3 months ago by DaveJ | 0 Comments |
How Essential is Your Community Health Provider?
(rhrealitycheck.org)
How reproductive health care is dealt with in national health care reform is no small matter; and who provides this care is still to be determined.
Submitted 7 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
Health Reform and Women's Health in Missouri
(rhrealitycheck.org)
Health care reform bills are moving quickly in Washington D.C. As a trusted health care provider serving over 50,000 women a year with thousands of pap smears, breast exams, and tests for sexually... More
Submitted 7 months ago by raquelbrown | 0 Comments |
Reproductive Care is Essential to Women’s Health
(amforum.blogspot.com)
If the latest Montana legislative session taught us anything it is this: there are still many lawmakers in this state who would like to see women lose their constitutional right to privacy and... More
Submitted 10 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
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 |
NY Family Planners Applaud Obama’s Prioritizing of Women’s Health
(www.publicnewsservice.org)
A provision in President Obama's 2010 budget proposal that would expand Medicaid family planning programs has New York women's health care advocates joining their national counterparts in celebration
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Ultrasound and Informed Consent
(www.rhrealitycheck.org)
In the name of informed consent, more states are hopping on the ultrasound bandwagon. Already, according to the Guttmacher Institute, 12 states have enacted legislation on the issue. The majority (6... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
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