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Contraception
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
VA “Pro-Life Pharmacy” Will Sell No “Artificial Birth Control”
Wash. Times: Va. pharmacy caters to pro-life customers, by Julia Duin:When Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy opens Tuesday in a Chantilly shoppingcenter, it will have on display a picture of St.…
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Report Shows Mixed Statistics on Abortion Rates in U.S.
LA Times: The 'why' behind new abortion stats, by Shari Roan:Abortion rates in the United States have declined to their lowestlevels since 1974, according to a report released today. However,Latina…
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Hillary Clinton and Cecile Richards on Proposed HHS Regs
NY Times Op-Ed: Blocking Care for Women, by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Cecile Richards:LAST month, the Bush administration launched the latest salvo in itseight-year campaign to undermine women’s rights and…
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Bush Administration Appears to Back off of Controversial HHS Regs
Reuters: HHS chief denies new rule to attack contraception, by Maggie Fox:A widely circulated draft U.S. regulation that would define manyforms of contraception as abortion will not be proposed in…
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The Right-Wing Attack on Contraception
Science Progress: Contraception Is the New Abortion: The Latest Right Wing Trend? Attack Birth Control, by Jessica Arons (7/28):The Bush administration has taken its latest swipeat contraception, but again under…
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More on Proposed Bush Admin. Reg Defining Birth Control Pill as Abortion
Wall St. Journal: Treating the Pill as Abortion, Draft Regulation Stirs Debate, by Stephanie Simon:Set aside the fraught question of when human life begins. The new debate: When does pregnancy…
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More on the 40th Anniversary of the Catholic Church’s Contraception Ban
Chicago Tribune: Contraception ban remains bitter pill, by Robert McClory (Northwestern University; former Catholic priest):Forty years ago last week, Pope Paul VIissued his encyclical Humanae Vitae, condemning the birth control…
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Catholic Groups Urge Pope to Lift Ban on Contraception
Reuters UK: Catholic groups ask pope to end contraception ban, by Philip Pullella:ROME (Reuters) - More than 50 dissident Catholic groups published anunusually frank open letter to Pope Benedict on…
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Bush Administration’s Proposed Regs Threaten Access to Birth Control
US News & World Report: A Government Threat to Birth Control, by Deborah Kotz:A new set of health laws that could be proposed by the government sometime in the next…
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Recent Pop-Culture Obsession with Teen Pregnancy Fails to Show the “Before or After”
Newsweek: Teen Pregnancy, Hollywood Style, by Sarah Kliff: Once taboo, pregnant teenagers are popping up more frequently on TV, in movies and on magazine covers. The problem? This latest pop-culture…