Lon Newman's blog
By Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services July 15, 2009 - 7:00am
After 13 years and more than a billion dollars, abstinence-only-until-marriage programs are facing the axe. Cong. David Obey (D-WI) may soon deliver the final sentence.
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By Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services March 23, 2009 - 12:08pm
The focus of this Congress, along with the presidential administration, must be on creating down-to-earth reproductive health care policy, instead of being swayed by battles over who holds the higher moral ground.
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By Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services February 27, 2009 - 8:00am
Patients at our family planning clinic are frightened and threatened by the anti-birth control crusaders who protest in front of our building on a regular basis.
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By Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services February 10, 2009 - 8:00am
Family planning is voluntarily prevention of unintended pregnancies -- meaning women and their families are able to determine for themselves whether and when to have children.
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By Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services September 24, 2008 - 7:00am
If new HHS regulations are adopted, family planning service providers could be forced to hire people who have moral objections to contraception and would be unable to discipline employees who refuse to provide birth control.
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By Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services August 29, 2008 - 7:00am
Wisconsin's Family Planning Health Services put 20,000 emergency contraceptive pills in the hands of 10,000 women last year. Is preventing unwanted pregnancy as simple as that? Yes. And no.
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By Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services August 4, 2008 - 7:00am
Take action! Push back against HHS draft regulations that would protect health care providers who refuse to provide information and referrals on contraception.
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By Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services May 28, 2008 - 7:00am
With a new presidential administration coming soon, this is the time for reproductive health advocates to speak up for health care policy change.
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By Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services March 25, 2008 - 8:53am
Spring break is a good time for anti-abortion advocates and supporters of comprehensive sex education alike to call for sexual responsibility. Perhaps we can agree to exercise responsibility in our advertising too -- then groups like Pro-Life Wisconsin wouldn't run false and misleading ads about emergency contraception.
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By Lon Newman, Family Planning Health Services January 22, 2008 - 10:11am
My mother's death helped me realize that there are parallel moral, ethical and spiritual issues at the end and at the beginning of life.
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