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Contraception
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Phillipines: Sharp Decline in Publicly Funded Contraceptives in Creates Barriers to Women’s Contraceptive Use
Guttmacher Institute news release: Cutbacks in Publicly Funded Contraceptive Services Reduce Filipino Women's Ability to Practice Contraception:Poor Women Most Affected by Higher Contraceptive Costs A sharp decline in publicly funded…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
New Book “America and the Pill” Traces the Pill’s Influence on Women
Wash. Post: In "America and the Pill," Elaine Tyler May traces the pill's influence on women, by Elaine Tyler May:AMERICA AND THE PILL: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Advocates Lobby for Free Birth Control Pills
LIFENEWS.COM: Abortion Advocates Lobby for Free Birth Control Pills Under Obama Health Care By Steven Ertelt Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood has quietly launched a move to exploit the provisions…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Survey Shows the Pill and Sterilization Remain the Most Popular Contraceptives Among Women
USA Today: U.S. women still prefer the pill, sterilization for contraception, by Rita Rubin: A growing percentage of U.S. women are using intrauterine devices, or IUDs, but the pill and…
Family Law Prof Blog
New Male Contraceptive?
By Family Law
From CBS News:The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a$100,000 grant to a couple of researchers investigating the use of ultrasoundas a reversible male contraceptive.The technique already works on…
West Australian Medical Negligence Law Blog
Implanon Litigation Continues
I was interested to see the recent NSW decision in Hollier v Sutcliffe [2010] NSWSC 279, delivered on 23 April 2010. The case concerned alleged side-effects following insertion of…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Nicholas Kristof on the Unavailability of the Pill in Parts of Africa
NY Times (Op-Ed): Poverty and the Pill, by Nicholas D. Kristof: Earthquakes are more dramatic. Tsunamis make better television. AIDS is more visceral. But here’s a far more widespread challenge,…
Family Law Prof Blog
A Male Birth Control Pill?
By Family Law
According to this CNN story, it is still "5 to 10 years away . . .":"The joke in the field is: The male pill's been five to 10 years away…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Study Suggests the Pill May Lower Women’s Sex Drive
Time Magazine: Study: Low Sex Drive, Ladies? It Might Be Your Pill, by Catherine Elton: It is a statement on the evolution of society's attitudes towardsex when you compare the…
Family Law Prof Blog
Cahn & Carbone: Family Classes: Rethinking Contraceptive Choice
By Family Law
Naomi Cahn (George Washington University Law School) & June Carbone (UMKC School of Law) have posted "Family Classes: Rethinking Contraceptive Choice" (University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy)…