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Reader diary posted by Erica Sackin, Planned Parenthood of New York City June 25, 2009 - 9:06am
I'm too old to get the HPV vaccine. Is it worth shelling out $600 for? And is it really fair that I'm considered "too old" in the first place?
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor November 16, 2009 - 11:13am
An article by Kathleen Seelye in today's New York Times titled "In Congress, a Predicament for Abortion Supporters," can now be added to the growing list of media analyses that fail to accurately portray the implications of the Stupak amendment should it become law.
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor November 13, 2009 - 8:13am
Washington Monthly reports this morning that the RNC, which has provided coverage for abortion care for its employees for over 18 years and was suddenly "caught out" this week, is now proceeding to remove that coverage from its policy. But even so the RNC will still indirectly subsidize abortions, every time it writes a check to Cigna, thereby rejecting the reasoning of the Stupak amendment at a fundamental level.
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A clique of anti-choice Democrats in Congress joined forces with Republicans to pass an amendment forcing women to choose between affordable health insurance and abortion coverage, even if they pay for abortion coverage with their own money. Pro-choice Democrats and women’s health activists are up in arms over the eleventh hour deal
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor November 6, 2009 - 5:16pm
In a remarkable piece at Newsweek.com, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend writes that it is in the national interest "to pass meaningful health-care reform and not litigate abortion in the process. Too much is at stake to let differences over abortion derail real health reform."
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Why is it that every time I try to refill my prescription for birth control I have to engage in the same 40 minutes of wrangling with my pharmacist?
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After being drugged and raped on a business trip, I received counseling and anti-HIV medications to help me survive. But to insurance companies my rape and treatment were "pre-existing conditions."
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor October 22, 2009 - 1:24pm
This past Tuesday, Senator Sessions (R-AL) literally badgers a mother forced into bankruptcy by her son's illness and death from cystic fibrosis because she didn't fill out a computer form correctly.
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By Amie Newman, Managing Editor October 14, 2009 - 4:02pm
When some women are literally begging their midwife not to transfer them to a hospital because they can't afford to pay the costs associated with a hospital birth, or women must spend part of their pregnancy searching for ways to pay for prenatal care instead of actually getting the care they need, we're talking about a crisis of coverage in this country.
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The President's speech was impressive, but as John Nichols of the Nation observed, hardly a rousing "to-the-barricades" oration. The proposed "limited public exchange" is not what supporters had in mind but won't "threaten" insurance companies.
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