Lindsay E. Beyerstein's blog

Conservative Tea Party darling Christine O'Donnell wins the Republican senate nomination in Delaware with her "masturbation is adultery" message. But is this actually a good thing for Democrats?

HHS has 18 months to decide whether to require insurers to provide oral contraceptives, IUDs, and other prescription birth control with no co-pay.  The far right is already organizing against this.

The percentage of teen girls who say they use the rhythm method for birth control is increasing. For most of these girls "rhythm method" means guessing the least risky day to have unprotected sex.

This week’s health care news was full of mind-bending paradoxes:  Prostate health is girly, abstinence-only education works through  failure, “principled” libertarian Rand Paul would protect all-white  lunch counters but ban private abortion clinics, and more

A nun in Arizona is excommunicated for approving a life-saving abortion, shedding light on a national basttle over access to reproductive health care in Catholic hospitals.

Today, President Obama will hold a televised health care summit on his recently released plan for health reform, a last-ditch attempt to get Republicans to offer ideas for reform. In fact, he's hoping to give the GOP enough rope to hang itself.