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Contraceptive Coverage Should Be the Rule, Not the Exception

by Laura W. Murphy, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office

August 29, 2011 - 12:04pm (Print)

Requiring coverage of FDA-approved contraceptives like birth control pills, implants and IUDs and other necessary preventive should be a no-brainer.

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Is CBS in Bed With Focus on the Family? (Heterosexually Speaking, Of Course)

by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

February 23, 2010 - 2:30pm (Print)

New reports of advertising by Focus on the Family during the NCAA basketball tournaments in March on CBS raise troubling questions about involvement by both the collegiate sports association and the network's support for a right-wing extremist group.

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Religious Voices Weigh in on Conscience

by Kristin Williams, Faith in Public Life

April 9, 2009 - 12:27pm (Print)

While some religious groups do oppose rescinding the conscience rule, many support it because of their concern that it could be harmful to health care and counter-productive to efforts to reduce unintended pregnancies.

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Let's Support Change We Can Believe In

by Cecile Richards and Timothy E. Wirth, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and United Nations Foundation

April 8, 2009 - 9:00am (Print)

With more and more families losing their health insurance and having difficulty accessing health care at all, Bush's HHS rule that limits access to health services is unconscionable. We must all speak up for patients' rights.

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Dishonesty in the Conscience Rule Debate

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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Obama Comes Through, Reversing Bush Era Repro Rights Restrictions

by Peggy Simpson, Women's Media Center

March 12, 2009 - 12:00pm (Print)

President Obama and congressional Democrats have already moved smartly to restore key women’s reproductive rights that came under attack during the Bush Administration.

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White House Releases Draft Rule Rescinding Right-to-Refuse Regulation

by Emily Douglas

March 6, 2009 - 2:35pm (Print)

Let's see some proof, the Obama administration said, in essence, today, to those who claimed that health care providers desperately needed further protection to prevent discrimination based on their religious objection to providing abortion care.

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The Facts on the Conscience Rule

by Kristin Williams, Faith in Public Life

February 27, 2009 - 4:40pm (Print)

Let's get the facts straight: revisiting the Bush "conscience clause" rule does not mean that providers who object to performing abortions will have to provide them.

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Obama Administration May Rescind "Conscience" Rule

by Cristina Page, Moderator, OnCommonGround

February 27, 2009 - 11:55am (Print)

The Obama administration takes the first step to rescind Bush's midnight regulations that would allow any health care worker to obstruct a woman's access to contraception.

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House Committee Holds Hearing on HHS Provider Conscience Regulation

by Emily Douglas

February 4, 2009 - 11:39am (Print)

The Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing today on the Bush administration's midnight regulations, including the Department of Health and Human Services's "provider conscience" regulation.

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