pregnancy prevention

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's proposed budget would cut the entire $455,000 in state funding to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative which supports programs at schools and clinics in seven health districts, including Alexandria, which have the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the state.

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Once a very unpopular method of contraception, the IUD is making a comeback as an increasing number of women adopt this method of contraception.  A new study suggests that this is due to product improvements, increased access, and a better reputation, among other factors. 

A more than two-thirds majority of voters--including those who voted for Republican/Tea Party candidates in the November 2010 election--strongly oppose the House Republican leadership's declaration of war on women.

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What is emergency contraception?  And is it harmful to keep taking it?

I dug deeper on the Sex and School study, and found a great deal of misinformation being reported about it. For starters, the results were misrepresented, and the words used in many headlines are nowhere in the study itself.

The FDA is considering approval of a new pregnancy prevention option.  Anti-choicers are, unsurprisingly, opposing approval of and expanded access to the method.

Under New York State law, carrying condoms is admissible as evidence of prostitution in a legal case. This means practicing safer sex is one more thing that can lead a sex worker to get arrested.