birth control access
Morning Roundup: Smith Will Modify Rape Definition in Horrible Bill
by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check
February 3, 2011 - 11:02am (Print)
Chris Smith will remove the word "forcible" from his bad anti-abortion bill, NRTL says Medicaid doesn't pay for the abortions of unbattered rape victims anyway, will contraceptives become free preventative medicine, don't try to read RH Reality Check on a ferry in Canada, and the Senate does not repeal the health care law.
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DeMint Calls No-Cost Birth Control Pricing Fix an "Earmark"
March 4, 2009 - 2:13pm (Print)
How can a technical fix in legislation that costs the federal government nothing be smeared as an "earmark?" When it will restore three million low-income and college women's ability to access affordable birth control.
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Get Real! Did My Stepmother Lie to Me About My Right to Birth Control?
by Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com
December 12, 2008 - 8:00am (Print)
While parents have the right not to pay for your birth control, they do not have the right to keep you from obtaining it yourself or using it.
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Roundup: Anti-Choice Chambliss Wins in Georgia; Why South Dakotans Won't Pass an Abortion Ban
December 3, 2008 - 11:39am (Print)
Georgia Senate seat stays anti-choice; why hasn't anti-choice South Dakota enacted an abortion ban?; ensuring birth control access for teens in Maine; a policy prescription to defuse the culture wars; speaking out about IVF.
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Tell Secretary Leavitt to Block New HHS Regulations on Contraception!
by Mary Jane Gallagher, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association
July 17, 2008 - 1:55pm (Print)
The Bush administration is proposing sweeping new restrictions on recipients of health-related federal funding. Click here to send a letter to Secretary Leavitt and
demand that these draft regulations never come to fruition. And read more about the new regulations here.
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