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If You Want To Contracept, Put A Ring On It

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by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

March 2, 2009 - 12:42am (Print)

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A San Antonio doctor explains why she denies birth control to single women. Also, fighting against maternal mortality, and how our sex lives are affected by the recession.

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Dishonesty in the Conscience Rule Debate

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by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

March 24, 2009 - 9:54am (Print)

If faith-based providers want to convince us that they’re interested in the dignity of their patients, they need to stop the war on medicine.

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Overwhelming Opposition Floods HHS Refusal Clause Proposal: 200,000+

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by Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

September 26, 2008 - 2:13pm (Print)

HHS is characterizing the number of comments as "higher than average" and RH Reality Check has obtained estimates from several organizations suggesting at 200,000 comments are in opposition. Don't forget the 325,000 petitions turned in before the rule was issued, as Americans attempt to prevent ideology from trumping medical science.
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President's Committee on Bioethics Debates Provider, Patient Conscience

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by David J. Nolan, Catholics for Choice

September 16, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

As the deadline for public comment on the new Department of Health and Human Services refusal clause regulations nears, the President's Committee on Bioethics discussed how conscience relates to health care at its meeting last week.
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In a Clash of Consciences, We Must Protect Women's Access to Care

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by Rev. Dr. Carlton W. Veazey, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

August 14, 2008 - 7:00am (Print)

The Medical Right wants more expansive protections for physicians who object to providing reproductive health care services for moral or religious reasons. And they aren't stopping with abortion care and referral.
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