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Birth Control

FDA ordered to rethink Plan B age restrictions

March 25, 2009

Here’s some good news via Reuters.
A U.S. court on Monday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to reconsider its decisions on the sale of the Plan B emergency contraceptive and ordered its producer to make the pills available to 17-year-olds without a prescription.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, in [...]

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Reproductive loons admit it’s not about the babies

February 24, 2009

Public funding of family planning services prevents around 1.9 million unintended pregnancies, 860K unintended births, 810K abortions and 270K miscarriages each year, saving the United States billions of dollars in medical expenses (source).
Thus it makes sense that, no matter which side of the abortion debate we fall on as individuals, people are provided the services [...]

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Jesus died so they could lie

December 3, 2008

What other conclusion can one draw but that from the latest blathering of the anti-woman Christian Medical Association whose spokesman recently stated that Plan B causes abortions?
Proponents, including the Christian Medical Assn. and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, say the rule is not limited to abortion. It will protect doctors who do not wish [...]

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The best commercial for birth control ever

December 10, 2007

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It was banned from television and for the life of me I can’t figure out why this is so.

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Now we need protection from birth control?

May 25, 2007

One of the biggest arguments by pro forced maternity activists is that women need ‘protection’. This how they’ve managed to get such ‘protective’ measures as informed consent, parental consent and mandatory waiting periods passed into law as well the upswing in support for forced sonograms.
We women supposedly have no idea that an abortion [...]

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Kroger does the right thing

March 12, 2007

Kroger, a national grocery chain based in Cincinnati, has reiterated their policy that all their pharmacies must make EC available after allegations reached a critical pitch that a pharmacist employed by Kroger in Georgia had refused to fill Carrie Baker’s prescription the past December because of the pharmacists personal beliefs.
Kroger Co. said Friday it was [...]

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EC Bills Fail in South Dakota

February 26, 2007

A South Dakota bill that would have required that information about the availability of EC be given to rape victims failed last week. Which is just as well I supposed as anti-choice advocates managed to tack an amendment on that would have allowed any provider or facility to opt-out.
As originally written, SB187 wouldn’t force [...]

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