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Looking Forward, Looking Back: Two Perspectives on Leadership, Culture, and the Sexual Health Movement
by Debra Hauser, Advocates for Youth
and James Wagoner, Advocates for Youth
January 30, 2012 - 9:43am (Print)
In the years ahead, Advocates will continue to be a dynamic leader in promoting the rights of youth to information, education, and services. I am deeply committed to our current, innovative work expanding adolescent access to contraception domestically and internationally; fighting homophobia in schools and communities across the United States; and using our policy work on the Hill and with the administration to advance the goals of our state and local partners.
Follow Debra Hauser on Twitter, @AdvocatesTweets
President Obama, Please Keep Your Promise to Insulate Science from Politics and Ideology
by Wayne Shields, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
January 9, 2012 - 12:11pm (Print)
One of the most difficult things to do is tell a friend that we are disappointed or upset with them, but that is what we are doing here today.
Why Scientific Integrity Policies are So Important for Government Agencies
by Francesca Grifo, Scientific Integrity Program at Union of Concerned Scientists
January 6, 2012 - 7:15pm (Print)
Sadly, only about a quarter of the relevant agencies have developed scientific integrity policies as required under White House guidelines and publicly released them.
The Plan B Decision: A Dangerous Precedent
by Kelly Cleland, Office of Population Research (Princeton University)
January 6, 2012 - 5:58pm (Print)
To the FDA, the evidence is clear: Plan B is safe for women of all ages. Yet in a dangerous precedent, the Secretary overturned the decision based on pseudo-scientific concerns about misuse among younger adolescents.
The EC Decision: Where Were The President's Science Advisors?
by Susan Wood, ThePumpHandle.wordpress.com
January 6, 2012 - 5:34pm (Print)
Dr. Susan Wood discusses the recent misuse of science and data as part of the decision by the Secretary of HHS to overrule the scientific determination by the FDA Commissioner on bringing Plan B fully over the counter.
The Inside Hardball on Obama's Emergency Contraception Decision?
by Rebecca Sive, The Sive Group, Inc./www.rebeccasive.com
December 14, 2011 - 10:12am (Print)
I got to thinking about what else the President’s decision portends. The essence of successful politicians like, say, Margaret Hamburg and Kathleen Sebelius, is three-fold. What starts all over every morning is the (political) big leagues ballgame. What starts over every day in these big leagues, just like the baseball ones, is a game that is played only one way: the hardball way.
Follow Rebecca Sive on Twitter, @RebeccaSive
A Young Doctor's Response to President Obama's Plan B Failure: Where Is the Scientific Integrity?
December 11, 2011 - 10:58am (Print)
Experts, who we count on for guidance and sound evidence-based medicine, have repeatedly shown Plan B to be not only extremely effective, but incredibly safe. Although the experts in the FDA agreed with the well-researched and well-presented data on Plan B, Secretary Sebelius and President Obama chose to ignore their expertise and base their decision on politics, not science.
Follow Dr. Megan Evans on Twitter, @ProChoicePres
