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Corruption Chronicles (Free subscription) | yesterday
Although it’s illegal to fund abortions with federal dollars, the Department of Defense will for the first time in history offer a controversial abortion pill at U.S. military bases worldwide. Best known as the morning after pill, Plan B One-Step will soon become a standard part of every military medical facility’s drug stock, including those in crucial Middle East locations such as Iraq...
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Right Wing Watch (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
I didn't realize that in joining the military, women agreed to give up their right to medical treatments to which the Religious Right objected ... but apparently they do : Late Thursday, the Obama administration issued a new order for the U.S. military requiring all military hospitals and health centers to stock the morning after pill. The Department of Defense will soon begin having military medical...
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Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon for the first time will require military bases worldwide to offer emergency contraception or the so-called morning-after pill (Bush's Plan B Abortion Pill at taxpayer expense), a military spokeswoman said Thursday. The decision follows a recommendation...
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Rantburg (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
The Pentagon for the first time will require military bases worldwide to offer emergency contraception or the so-called morning-after pill, a military spokesman told Fox News Friday. The decision follows a recommendation by an independent panel of doctors and pharmacists in November, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. The panel determined that emergency contraception should be added to the military's...
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Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 03/02/2010
Volunteer TV KNOXVILLE -- The building East Knoxville, will soon be the new home of Planned Parenthood, after they closed their West Knoxville location. But, the fact that the abortion pill will also be available, is why some people in...
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Creative Minority Reader (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Danielle Bean thinks there's a bit of a con job going on when it comes to "emergency contraception." We couldn't agree more. I’m getting pretty tired of medical professionals treating women like they are completely brainless. Did you hear? We women are all set. There’s a new “Morning After” pill in town. It has a futuristic name—ellaOne—and if we ladies...
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Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Better than the "morning after pill", a new emergency contraceptive pill, ellaOne, can prevent pregnancy for up to five days after unprotected intercourse. While it is not yet available in the United States, the new pill may one day offer...
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the optimum population trust blog (Free subscription) | 28/01/2010
A new morning-after pill that can stop women becoming pregnant for almost a week after unprotected sex has prompted a row over fair access to medication. The drug, ulipristal acetate (UA), is effective up to five days after sex compared with the three-day window offered by the conventional emergency pill. It was licensed [...]
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 28/01/2010
A new morning-after pill that can stop women becoming pregnant for almost a week after unprotected sex has prompted a row over fair access to medication.
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Joe Brainard's Pyjamas (Free subscription) | 20/01/2010
Here is a quick rehash of the drama. JAKE TAKES VIENNA ON A ONE-ON-ONE DATE... Vienna: I'm so happy to be here with you right now. Jake: I'm an actor. Vienna: I really feel as though I've come to that point in my life where I'm ready to just totally commit to a man, just totally fuse my soul with him. Jake: I'm an actor. Vienna: It's so wonderful being up in the air in this helicopter with you. Do...
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Blowing San #1 (Free subscription) | 15/01/2010
NORTH BERWICK, Maine, January 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Maine high school that had plans to offer contraception to students and screen for sexually transmitted diseases has been told that they cannot access federal funding for the project unless they drop their restrictions on distributing abortifacient “emergency contraception” or the “morning after pill.” (So let...
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mum2twelve (Free subscription) | 12/01/2010
Are they connected to breast cancer? Is the National Cancer Institute (NCI) doing a disservice to women and their families by not making the results of this study more known? I learned about this study here . Why are articles like this one not being shouted from the roof tops? (That's a rhetorical question.) ignore
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ProWomanProLife (Free subscription) | 08/01/2010
A study indicating there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, and the Pill and breast cancer. …Dr. Brinton’s participation in the study was significant because the NCI has “firmly maintained” a position denying an abortion-breast cancer link since 2003. The study, titled “Risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer in women under the age of 45 [...]
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Crikey Politics Etc RSS (Free subscription) | 17/12/2009
Four years ago, four women senators from a variety of political parties cosponsored and passed a bill in support of the abortion pill RU486. Why was this a one-off? Why don't we have a women's caucus and more collective action?