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WI Senator Tells Women Who Can’t Afford Birth Control to Google “What If I...
The Republican all-male-dominated debate on contraception took a new turn this week when Teaparty Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told women to hop on Google in the event they were seeking birth control and...
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Citizens of Miami County, Kansas Launch Grassroots Effort to Restore Loss of...
Kansas has some new reproductive rights and justice she-ros and heros. They are the women and men of Miami County. RH Reality Check recently published the story of Miami County’s loss of Title X...
View ArticleFortnight for Freedom – Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
The Catholic bishops have begun a two-week campaign leading up to July 4th with the central focus of removing contraceptive coverage from health insurance reform. Of course, the Supreme Court any...
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New York Post to NYC Teens: Give Birth!
Last week, New York City’s Department of Health released numbers showing that teen pregnancy rates in the city have fallen considerably in the last decade. So for some reason, the New York Post, the...
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Why Does the ACGME Want to Eliminate Contraceptive Training for Family...
In one of the clinics where we work, a 16-year-old girl came in with a sprained ankle. She left with a prescription for birth control. This turn of events is not as surprising as it seems: As family...
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IUDs Might Be Exciting, But There’s More to Sexual Health Than Preventing...
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a study that found more people ages 15-to-19 are using long acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods than in the...
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New Survey: Texans Struggle to Pay for Reproductive Health Care
More than half of Texans who were surveyed in a new university study said that they have faced at least one barrier to accessing cervical cancer screenings, family planning care, or other reproductive...
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GOP Introduces ‘Sham’ Birth Control Access Bill
Women’s health advocates are harshly criticizing a new bill sponsored by Sens. Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) intended to help make birth control available over the counter (OTC), calling...
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Will Republican Noises About Over-the-Counter Birth Control Inadvertently...
One of the reasons that politics is an endlessly fascinating subject is the way that the law of unintended consequences so often comes into play. Politics is an inherently reactive profession, and you...
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Pro-Choice and Pregnant? Yeah, It’s Really Real
This week, the Washington Post published a profile of NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue, which focused on what apparently is to many in the anti-choice movement a mystifying occurrence:...
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Improving Reproductive Care for Women in Jail Is Not an Impossible Task
Millions of the most medically underserved women in America enter local jails each year, where their reproductive health care and family planning needs are grossly overlooked. Women in city and county...
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Federal Appeals Courts Unanimous in Support of Obamacare’s Birth Control...
A federal appeals court on Friday reaffirmed a ruling that the accommodation process to the birth control benefit in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) does not violate the Religious Freedom Restoration...
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Illegal Abortion Is a Maternal Health Crisis
Unsafe abortion is a maternal health crisis in countries where abortion is illegal or difficult to access, leading to 47,000 preventable deaths each year, according to the World Health Organization....
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Why We Should All Be Afraid of the Coming Supreme Court Term
Remember how good this summer’s win for marriage equality felt? I mean, sure, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges embraced a very traditional, patriarchal view of marriage, and...
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Why Are Some Countries Advising Against Pregnancy as the Zika Virus Spreads?
Read more of our articles on the Zika virus here. Researchers suspect that a poorly understood virus is linked to an alarming number of babies born with microcephaly in South America. The Zika virus is...
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Texas Official Forced Out After Peer-Reviewed Study Critiques GOP’s...
A Texas official is being forced to retire due to pressure from Republican legislators who took exception to a study he co-authored. The study found GOP efforts to exclude Planned Parenthood from the...
View Article‘Carmichael Show’ Tackles Plan B Myths: ‘Stop Acting Like We’re Killing a Baby’
This piece is published in collaboration with Echoing Ida, a Forward Together project. On the March 20 episode of NBC comedy The Carmichael Show, 20-something couple Jerrod (comedian Jerrod Carmichael)...
View ArticleSupreme Court Looks for Alternatives in Birth Control Challenge
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered attorneys in Zubik v. Burwell, the case challenging the Obama administration’s process for accommodating religious objections to the Affordable Care Act’s birth...
View ArticleReligious Nonprofits Press Supreme Court for Full Exemption From Birth...
In late March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Zubik v. Burwell, the lead case challenging the Obama administration’s process for accommodating religious objections to the Affordable...
View ArticleState-Level Attacks on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Continue,...
State legislatures came into session in January and quickly focused on a range of sexual and reproductive health and rights issues. By the end of the first quarter, legislators in 45 states had...
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