Archive for the 'emergency contraception' Category
Anger and Pride
The price of health care has been women’s reproductive rights:
Stupak wants to outlaw abortion coverage in the new health insurance Exchange, where individuals and small businesses will purchase their coverage. Instead, women would only be able to purchase abortion coverage in a “abortion rider” plan – a single-service plan that covers abortion only. Such an [...]
You’re My Doctor, Not My Daddy
More young, childless men are seeking vasectomies. Some urologists are reluctant to do them.
“I said, ‘I don’t want children,’ ” Allie says. “He didn’t either. It never came into my head that I was put on this Earth to be a mother.”
Young men like Mitch – childless, and looking to stay that way – make [...]
President-in-Waiting Palin Explains Why a 15-Year-Old Who Has Been Raped Should Be Forced to Bear the Child
This is what we get if John McKKKain wins the election and then dies.
Sarah Palin really IS Serena Joy.
Palin Helped Block Clinic Access
Palin wasn’t only banning books: she was actively trying to shut down clinics that provide abortions in Alaska, according to a fellow evangelical who clashed with her:
Soon after the book controversy, Bess found himself again at odds with Palin and her fellow evangelicals. In 1996, evangelical churches mounted a vigorous campaign to take over [...]
Palin, Rape Kits and Abortion
John Aravosis has a question:
A reader writes and asks an interesting question. Sarah Palin’s town of Wasilla, Alaska, was the only – or at the very least, one of the very few – towns in Alaska to charge rape victims for their own rape kits. Now, rape kits are the medical equipment that the police [...]
It’s Law Suit Time
TAMPA – First, police say, a 21-year-old woman was raped at Gasparilla. Then, she was handcuffed and jailed – for two nights and two days.
A jail worker with religious objections blocked her from ingesting a morning-after pill to prevent pregnancy, her attorney says, keeping her from taking the required second dose for more than 24 [...]
Nancy Keenan is a Mole
[UPDATE: Welcome Firedoglakers! Come for the politics, stick around for the For Better or For Worse deconstructions!]
I’m a little late to the table regarding the new atrocity that choice sellouts NARAL are backing: the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, a Republican bill that “would require doctors to provide fetal pain information to women seeking [...]
Free Emergency Contraception Day, 12/6/06
Planned Parenthood Affiliates around the country are distributing free emergency contraception tomorrow, December 6, 2006. Call 1-800-230-PLAN for the center nearest you.
Plan B, emergency contraception, was finally legalized as an OTC contraceptive for women aged 18 and over. Yet as we all know, there is a real problem with irresponsible moralists in pharmacies [...]
