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Sexual Health Roundup: Mail-Order Condoms and Viagra, and a Sex Toy Race in Vegas

Vibrators race in Vegas.

This week, a California program that allows teens to order condoms online garnered controversy, but Pfizer selling Viagra to patients online did not. Meanwhile, a vibrator race was held in Las Vegas.

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Advocates Argue Obama Administration’s EC Appeal Filed on Shaky Legal, Factual Basis

The administration will ask a federal appeals court to delay implementation of a rule lifting age and point-of-sale requirements so it can pursue more restrictions.

The Center for Reproductive Rights urged a federal court to deny a request by the Obama administration to stay an order that would make emergency contraception widely available.

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Legal Wrap: The EC Appeal Is Bad Law and Bad Policy

scales of justice, gavel, and book

The Obama administration fights for barriers to emergency contraception for no good reason, while the right pushes for even greater concessions on exemptions to the birth control benefit.

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Michigan ‘Conscience Clause’ Bill Goes Beyond Opt Outs

In essence, a new bill in Michigan will offer religious entities their own set of exclusive rights to deem who is allowed health care and why.

In essence, a new bill in Michigan will offer religious entities their own set of exclusive rights to deem who is allowed health care and why.

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Time to Demand All Birth Control Pills Be Sold Over-the-Counter

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Doctors and researchers agree: Over-the-counter birth control pills are good policy for women’s health. Pro-choicers might be reluctant to pick this fight, but if we start pushing hard now, it will pay off for women in the long run.

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10 Reasons Why the Obama Administration Is Wrong on Emergency Contraception

emergency pills

Once again, politics have trumped science, and it’s women and girls who pay the price.

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Arizona Governor Flip-Flops on Planned Parenthood Defunding

Jan Brewer was so close to not passing unconstitutional bills just to assuage anti-choice extremists. Then she caved.

Jan Brewer was so close to not passing unconstitutional bills just to assuage anti-choice extremists. Then she caved.

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Hearing on Obama Administration Emergency Contraception Appeal Set for May 7

A federal court judge today refused to grant an extension of time to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in a long-running case concerning access to emergency contraception.

U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman gave the administration until May 10 to comply with his order to lift restrictions on emergency contraception.

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Obama Administration Argues EC Appeal Necessary to Protect Public Trust in FDA

The Obama administration denies it is playing politics with emergency contraception.

The Obama administration advances a misguided argument and denies it is playing politics with emergency contraception.

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Obama Administration Throws Science and Public Health Out the Window in Appeal of Plan B Ruling

Plan b emergency contraceptive

The Obama administration announced it was appealing a federal court order that lifted age-restrictions on the sale of emergency contraception.

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