Hell? Straight People (Slog | Dan Savage)
Posted in Dan Savage, birth control on May 8th, 2008
They really are coming for your birth control pills—seriously.
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Planned Parenthood and WDUQ
Posted in birth control on Oct 18th, 2007
Posted to the Disciples of NPR LJ community:
Amazing Gracelessness (Pittsburgh City Paper): “For the first time, I’m contributing a nominal sum to WDUQ, in memory of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger — just so Duquesne’s balance sheet will remain tainted with the blemish of heresy. But I’ll contribute double that amount to Planned Parenthood, on […]
Let’s Talk About Sex (NYT Select)
Posted in abortion, birth control, health, women on May 19th, 2007
By ATUL GAWANDE
One statistic seems to me to give the lie to all the rhetoric about abortion, and it’s this: one in three women under the age of 45 have an abortion during their lifetime. One in three. All politicians — Democrat and Republican — say they want to make abortion at least rare (as […]
Time Magazine inaccurately claims Emergency Contraception induces abortion (Sex in the Public Square)
Posted in abortion, birth control on Apr 10th, 2007
By Elizabeth Wood
Please email them and request that they issue a correction ASAP
In Time Magazine article about the pro-choice movement in Mexico, about about anti-abortion politics in Latin America more generally, the author describes Emergency Contraception as “abortion inducing.”
Underground abortions are one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in Chile. Although Chile has one […]
HHS official quits after Medicaid action (Houston Chronicle)
Posted in Eric Keroack, HHS, abstinence, birth control on Mar 29th, 2007
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press Writer© 2007 The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The head of the federal office responsible for providing women with access to contraceptives and counseling to prevent pregnancy resigned unexpectedly Thursday after Medicaid officials took action against him in Massachusetts.
The Health and Human Services Department provided no details about the nature of the […]
Birth control costs to rise for college students
Posted in birth control, birthcontrol, college, contraception on Mar 23rd, 2007
(AP) — Millions of college students are suddenly facing sharply higher prices for birth control, prompting concerns among health officials that some will shift to less preferred contraceptives or stop using them altogether.
Prices for oral contraceptives, or birth control pills, are doubling and tripling at student health centers, the result of a complex change in […]
Abstinence-only sex ed finds few scientific fans (SF Gate)
Posted in abstinence, birth control, education, health, politics, reproductive rights, violetblue on Feb 11th, 2007
Mike Weiss, Chronicle Staff Writer
There is no good scientific evidence that teaching abstinence to teenagers will by itself prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, say the authors of a recent study. Yet they found that comprehensive sex education is declining and that more youngsters are being taught nothing more than abstinence.
As with similar debates […]