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The Copper IUD: A Better Plan B
The increase in the use of emergency contraceptive (EC) pills highlighted in Ellen Chesler and Andrea Flynn’s post, Emergency Contraception Use Spreads, but Many Women Are Still Left Out, is great news...
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Anti-Choicers Will Deny How EC Works, Regardless of How Much Evidence You...
The science is in and has been for awhile: Not only does emergency contraception not cause abortion—this was never in doubt, because EC prevents pregnancy and abortion terminates it—but it can’t even...
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Emergency Contraception and Moral Panic: Dissecting the Newest Misinformation...
Reproductive rights advocates have something to cheer about: A federal judge ruled last week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must allow universal access to Plan B over-the-counter for...
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Administration Again Fails on Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception
Update: 8:59 pm, Wednesday, May 1. Tonight the Obama Administration announced it would appeal Judge Korman’s ruling that emergency contraception be made available over-the-counter for everyone, putting...
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Obama Administration Argues EC Appeal Necessary to Protect Public Trust in FDA
In support of its appeal and request to stay the April 5 district court order directing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make emergency contraception (EC) available by May 5, and without a...
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Hearing on Obama Administration Emergency Contraception Appeal Set for May 7
Today U.S. District Judge Edward Korman set a date of May 10 for the Obama administration to comply with an April 5 order to lift Food and Drug Administration (FDA) restrictions on the sale of...
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10 Reasons Why the Obama Administration Is Wrong on Emergency Contraception
Forty years after the Supreme Court affirmed a woman’s constitutional right to privacy, including the right to choose, we shouldn’t have to remind people that when it comes to a woman’s health, no...
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Time to Demand All Birth Control Pills Be Sold Over-the-Counter
In all the fussing over the sale of emergency contraception over-the-counter (OTC), it’s easy to forget that there’s another contraception drug out there that should be available OTC but isn’t: the...
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Weld County Board Renews Decision to Ban Plan B at Health Clinics
Cross-posted with permission from the Colorado Independent. Colorado’s Weld County Board on Monday renewed a 2010 policy that prevented county health clinics funded by the federal Title X women’s...
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The Obama Administration’s Plan B Folly
In 1985, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman wrote a famous book looking at the question of why leaders not only make bad choices, but keep making them long after it’s obvious to pretty...
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Health Care in Our Hands: Celebrating a Decade of Work to Get Emergency...
August 1 has become an important day for women’s health. Not only does it mark the one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act regulation requiring no-cost coverage of women’s preventive...
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Another Reason to Celebrate Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception: It...
As I waited in line for the pharmacist, I shifted my weight from hip to hip, trying to maintain an aura of calm and collectedness as my heart pounded. Why was I so nervous? There was nothing wrong with...
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‘Morning-After Pill Brigade’ Protests for Better Emergency Contraception Access
A “roving band of feminists” organized by the National Women’s Liberation (NWL) took to the streets, or rather the aisles, in New York City Saturday to protest pharmacies that restrict over-the-counter...
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11 Pro-Choice Successes of 2013
Though 2013 might have brought an array of new abortion restrictions and other setbacks for reproductive rights, there were also a number of reasons for pro-choice allies around the country to be proud...
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Reproductive rights advocates have waged a long campaign to make Plan B One-Step available over the counter—but are pharmacies actually making the crucial drug accessible? The Portland Mercury looks at...
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In support of its appeal and request to stay the April 5 district court order directing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make emergency contraception (EC) available by May 5, and without a...
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