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They Are Coming For Your Birth Control: Contraception Gave Us Gosnell

They're coming for your birth control - bishop and pope

Gosnell’s case has been used for a number of anti-choice bills. But one priest is using it to suggest getting rid of birth control altogether.

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Ohio Senate Passes Budget Loaded With Anti-Choice Amendments

By adding amendments into the state budget, the anti-choice majority in the house and senate has turned the bill into an anti-choice omnibus bill.

By adding amendments into the state budget, the anti-choice majority in the house and senate has turned the bill into an anti-choice omnibus bill.

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Griswold v. Connecticut and the Evolution of Personal Privacy Rights. What’s Next?

Outside the Supreme Court as Griswold was being decided.

A landmark decision about contraception likely paved the way for the legal acceptance of same-sex marriage.

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New Multipurpose Prevention Technologies Could Provide Many Benefits for Women

Now is the time to embrace the development of new health technologies that could provide simultaneous protection for the multiple health risks many women face.

Now is the time to embrace the development of new health technologies that could provide simultaneous protection for the multiple health risks many women face.

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Do Religious Restrictions Force Doctors to Commit Malpractice?

Across the U.S., religious healthcare corporations are absorbing once secular and independent hospitals and in the process imposing religious restrictions that sometimes pit standard medical practice against theology.

Across the United States, religious health-care corporations are absorbing once secular and independent hospitals and in the process imposing religious restrictions that sometimes pit standard medical practice against theology.

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Republican Massachusetts Senate Candidate Opens Up on Forced Waiting Periods

Republican Massachusetts Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez.

At Wednesday’s debate Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez gave some indication of how he would vote on reproductive health policy, a topic that he has been reluctant to discuss in detail on the campaign trail.

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Oklahoma Republican: What Happened to Wanting Government Out of the Exam Room?

Rep. Dr. Doug Cox (R-Grove).

An Oklahoma Republican wonders when supporting the prevention of unplanned pregnancies became “extremist” in the GOP.

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A Teen to Obama on Emergency Contraception: Stop Patronizing Me

Telling teenagers to fork over photo identification before accessing emergency contraception means they simply don’t “get” us and our real lives.

Why would the Obama administration support such restrictions, which not only put the health and lives of young women at risk, but also further disable young women from taking control of our sexuality?

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An Open Letter on the Importance of Reproductive Choice

Choice does not necessarily have to be in a name. But it needs to be at the core of our values, because respect for women's capacity to decide really does matter.

Choice does not necessarily have to be in a name. But it needs to be at the core of our values, because respect for women’s capacity to decide really does matter.

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Obama Administration Ordered to Make Some Forms of EC Available Without Restrictions

Public health advocates are celebrating Monday night's announcement that the Obama administration will comply with a court order to make emergency contraception available over-the-counter without age restrictions.

The Second Circuit Court of appeals denied in part the Obama administration’s request that an earlier ruling to make emergency contraception widely available be put on hold.

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