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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Should We “De-politicize” Reproductive Health?
Dana Goldman has posted today on the Reproductive Health Reality Check Blog about the idea that reproductive health should be de-politicized. She holds that de-politicizing reproductive rights would only work…
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End to birth control discounts for students
NBC10.com reports that:Drug companies are telling colleges the discounts are done. For years, college students have been able to buy birth control very inexpensively. The drug companies offered the deeply…
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Democrats Shift Approach on Abortion: Language and policy goals on the issue have a ring of conservatism
Stephanie Simon reports in the LA Times on July 26:Sensing an opportunity to impress religious voters — and tip elections — Democrats in Congress and on the campaign trail have…
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Report Shows Unmet Need for Contraception in Developing Countries
The Guttmacher Institute has released a report showing that "[m]ore than 100 million married women living in developing countries havean unmet need for contraception, meaning that they are able to…
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Emergency Contraceptive Use Surges
Rob Stein reports in the Washington Post:The popularity of the morning-after pill Plan B has surged in theyear since the federal government approved the sale of thecontroversial emergency contraceptive without…
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Birth control costs
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4958482.htmlNot sure this is a new story -- check prior post
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Conn. bishops claim Plan B law takes shot at religious freedom
Via the Associated Press:Victim advocates cheered a recent bill requiring all Connecticuthospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape victims, but RomanCatholic leaders see it as the beginning of a new…
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Wash. Post: Democrats Pass Provision for Contraceptives in House Foreign Aid Bill
Elizabeth Williamson reports for the Washington Post:Move Is First Challenge To Antiabortion RidersHouse Democrats narrowly passed a measure yesterday to provide contraceptives to overseas organizations that had been banned from…
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New Federal Bill Would Require All Pharmacies to Sell Emergency Contraception
Via the Feminist Majority Foundation:Congressional Democrats introduced a bill yesterday requiring all pharmacies to provide emergency contraception, regardless of an individual pharmacist's moral objections. The Access to Birth Control Act,…
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Oregon Gov. signs bill to provide prescription drug coverage for birth control
Via KOIN News 6 (Portland, OR):Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a bill Wednesday that requires private health insurers to provide prescription drug coverage for birth control. ...The act will go into…