access to contraception
Cristina Page on October 30, 2008 - 8:00am
This year candidates who formerly fell victim to a caricature of being "pro-abortion" are returning fire. Some have turned the tables by exposing their opponents as not only anti-abortion, but, more radically, anti-contraception.
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Anna Clark on October 21, 2008 - 7:00am
The presidential candidates have been challenged with the same question again and again: In our unprecedented economic crisis, what programs or services will you cut? If they cut family planning services, other reproductive health costs are sure to spiral leaving "Jane the plumber" without the critical health services she needs.
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Emily Douglas on October 6, 2008 - 4:59pm
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has a filed a comment objecting to HHS's new provider conscience regulations.
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Emily Douglas on September 23, 2008 - 7:00am
The 2004 abortion rate in the United States is the lowest it has been since national legalization, but the overall rate masks stark disparities in the abortion rate among different racial and ethnic groups.
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Amie Newman on September 12, 2008 - 1:54pm
There are only 13 days left to comment on the HHS regulations that allow physician's to opt out of providing services like contraception and family planning to which they object - even if it's in the best interest of the patient.
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Amanda Marcotte on August 13, 2008 - 7:00am
A continuing education program for nurses in California indoctrinates providers with anti-contraception ideology -- part of the larger project to stock health care professions with anti-choicers who hide behind religion to refuse health care.
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Carole Joffe on August 7, 2008 - 7:00am
An administration that has done everything in its power to oppose abortion is now going after the very thing that can best prevent unintended pregnancies.
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Katha Pollitt on August 6, 2008 - 7:00am
According to new HHS regulations, you can have an "abortion" without even being pregnant.
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Heather Boonstra on August 4, 2008 - 1:07pm
At the International AIDS Conference, a broad global consensus supports the integration of reproductive health services in HIV prevention, while the U.S. government remains reluctant to acknowledge these crucial linkages.
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Andy Birkey on August 1, 2008 - 7:00am
Minnesota lawmakers overwhelmingly passed legislation last year to ensure the availability of emergency contraception to rape survivors. Under new proposed regulations, those women could be denied appropriate treatment.
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