Scale of pregnancy scares revealed
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Scale of pregnancy scares revealed
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Proposed Bush Regulation Jeopardizes Women’s Health
ACLU Bog of Rights (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
(Originally posted on Daily Kos.) Last Thursday the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released proposed regulations (PDF) that could seriously undermine women’s access to reproductive health services, including birth control and abortion. Now the public has 30 days to let the Bush administration know precisely what we think of these [...]
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Protections Set for Antiabortion Health Workers
HealthLawProf Blog (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
The Washington Post reports that the Bush administration announced plans to implement a controversial regulation designed to protect doctors, nurses and other health-care workers who object to abortion from being forced to deliver services that violate their personal beliefs. Rob...
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HHS: Antiabortion Doctors Need Job Protection
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
The Bush administration is proposing stronger job protections for doctors who refuse to perform abortions because of religious or moral objections.
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Teens’ Misconceptions About Emergency Contraception
Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Targeted health education may help urban, minority adolescent women better understand how the emergency contraception pill works and eliminate some misconceptions about side effects, confidentiality and accessibility, according to a study by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Researchers interviewed 30 African-American females ages 15 to 19 seeking care at Children’s Hospital’s emergency department....
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Teens full of misconceptions about emergency contraception
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
New York, Aug 20 (IANS) Minority teens need to be helped to better understand how the emergency contraception pill works and eliminate some misconceptions about side-effects, confidentiality and accessibility, according to a new study. Researchers interviewed 30 African-American females aged between 15 to 19 seeking care at Philadelphia Children’s Hospital’s emergency department. The patients returned...
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You Can Get Pregnant on Birth Control
Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
You Can Get Pregnant on Birth Control By: Kristine Anne Gonzaga You can still get pregnant even if you have been on the pill for years or months. Pills are almost a hundred percent effective in preventing pregnancies, but it is only true if you use it perfectly. By perfect, we抮e talking taking the pill without miss [...]
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Plans B Damned: The Quest for Emergency Contraception
RHRealityCheck.org blogs (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
There are many reasons a woman might need the morning after pill, emergency contraception, Plan B. But for a drug that's over-the-counter, EC can be surprisingly hard to obtain. After encouraging teen girls to use EC when necessary, Midwest Teen Sex Show host Nikol Hasler decided to see just how accessible it is. The answer: not very.
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Knowledge of the morning-after pill lacking: study
Health - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Urban-living minority girls appear to lack general knowledge about emergency contraceptive pills -- more commonly known as the "morning-after" pill, new research hints....
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Colombian High Court Rules Emergency Contraception Is Not Abortion
RHRealityCheck.org blogs (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
The Colombian High Court has just ruled in favor of a governmental health agency's right to distribute emergency contraception pills within in public health care system.
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Friday Feminist Fuck You: The Bush Administration
Feministing (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
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An Outrageous Attempt by the Bush Administration to Undermine Women's Rights
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
From RH Report : The Bush Administration is up to its old tricks again, quietly putting ideology before science and women's health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put...( read more )
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Roundup: Americans Strongly Oppose Bush HHS Proposal
RHRealityCheck.org blogs (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
89% of more than 100,000 Americans surveyed in an informal online poll oppose Bush's proposed anti-contraception regulations, How to fix sex-ed in the US, Finally repealing the HIV immigration ban will require action from HHS.
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A Government Threat to Birth Control
HealthLawProf Blog (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
US News reports that Sen. Hillary Clinton and other advocates of women's rights say a planned regulation could cut access to contraception. Deborah Katz writes, A new set of health laws that could be proposed by the government sometime in...
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Clinton vows to fight “insulting” abortion plan
BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
Michelle Nichols, Reuters - A Bush administration plan to define several widely used contraception methods as abortion is a “gratuitous, unnecessary insult” to women and faces tough opposition, Sen. Hillary Clinton said on Friday. The former Democratic presidential candidate joined family planning groups to condemn the proposal that defines abortion to include contraception such as birth control [...]...
