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This Week In Science History, May 6-12

Posted 05.13.2012

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Paging Dr. Freud--this week in science history marks the birthday of the father of psychoanalysis. Also this week historians of science are rememberin...

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The Dangers of Contraception Revealed

Robert Walker | Posted 04.19.2012

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There's a basic misconception that clouds the thinking of many social and religious conservatives. Believing that contraceptive use is a moral wrong, they desperately want to make it into a social ill. To do that, they confuse correlation with causation.

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POLL: Have You Ever Lied About Being On Birth Control?

Posted 04.18.2012

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So you meet the man of your dreams, set up shop and make plans to grow old together. Then you find out that his plan does not include having children....

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Haley Comments Called 'Idiotic,' 'Out Of Touch'

St. Andrews Patch | Tiffany Barkley | Posted 04.04.2012

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Drucilla Barker, director of the women's and gender studies program at the University of South Carolina, said Haley's remarks were contradictory. ...

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GOP Leader Denies Comparing Women To Farm Animals

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.29.2012

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The Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday afternoon that would allow the denial of certain ...

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Controversial Study Links Birth-Control, Women's Wages

Posted 03.29.2012

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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/29/2012 09:58 AM EDT on LiveScience The early availability of the birth control p...

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Arizona Women May Have To Pay To Request Insurance

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.28.2012

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An Arizona bill that could force some women to submit personal medical information to their employers about their non-contraceptive use of birth contr...

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The Great American Ovary Debate: 2012's Super Wedge Issue

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.21.2012

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Conservative groups in particular found power and leverage with so-called wedge issues such as abortion and gay marriage in the past. With contraception, however, they've awoken the sleeping giant voting majority who don't want their ovaries to be debated.

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New Hampshire Lawmakers Repeal Contraception Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.07.2012

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Saying it would reduce health insurance costs, the Tea Party-controlled New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday afternoon to re...

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The Real Victims in the Contraception Controversy: Men

Gavin Shulman | Posted 05.06.2012

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There is a war on men being waged in this country. That wants to see us stripped of our hard-earned gains in society, and send us back to a time when we can only have sex within a marriage. For the sole purpose of procreating.

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GOP Lawmaker Seeks To Make Birth Control 'Obsolete And Outdated'

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.22.2012

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A Republican lawmaker in New Hampshire has proposed repealing the state's requirement to provide insurance coverage for birth control by attaching the...

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Male Privilege and the Birth Control Debate

Daniella Gibbs Leger | Posted 04.15.2012

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The last time I checked, men cannot give birth. That's not to say that they don't have a vested interest in the issue, because obviously they do. But they don't get to speak with absolute authority about something they never personally experience.

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Balloon Boy Politics: The Media's Embrace of Birth Contracalypse 2012

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.14.2012

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The new supposed "culture war" may have captured the fevered imagination of the press corps, but not the electorate -- 71 percent of which still says the economy is the most important problem facing America.

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Contraception Isn't a PR Game; It's a Woman's Right

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 04.10.2012

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This is about the notion that some religiously affiliated hospitals and schools receive federal money and therefore cannot deny a woman a federal guarantee. This is real 'class warfare' and this time the victims are the most vulnerable -- women from lower-income neighborhoods.

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I'm Outraged - Why Aren't You?

Jen Psaki | Posted 04.09.2012

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For full disclosure, I am a Catholic, I am a Democrat and I am a woman. I am also someone who if push came to shove can afford to pay over the counter for birth control. But the false outcry this week over the need to cover birth control has made me raving mad.

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Picture a Technology Revolution. In Contraception. It's Here.

Valerie Tarico | Posted 03.27.2012

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Imagine a future in which we can simply toggle the default on human fertility, so that accidental pregnancy is a thing of the past and women become fertile only when they want to become pregnant.

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Would You Go Off The Pill To Test Your Relationship Chemistry?

Posted 12.14.2011

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Our friends over at TresSugar recently raised an interesting question: Would you go off the pill to make sure he's "the one?" They were responding to ...

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Freedom, Fertility and Feminism: The Real Cost of the Pill

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 10.02.2011

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While we indeed have incredible control to suppress our fertility (while still expressing our sexuality) as we establish ourselves, we don't have control over when our reproductive systems time out.

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The Most Shocking Thing My Mother Ever Told Me About Sex (And How It's Shaped My Politics)

Keli Goff | Posted 09.25.2011

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Recently my mother told me something shocking. When she decided that her family was complete and sought to have her tubes tied, she was told that her husband would have to sign a form giving his consent.

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No-Cost Birth Control: The Facebook Application

Nancy Keenan | Posted 08.27.2011

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Did you know that 98 percent of American women use birth control during their lifetime? Yet for many women, it's simply too expensive. One in three women has struggled with the high cost of prescription birth control.

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98 Percent Of Catholic Women Use Birth Control Banned By Church

Posted 06.14.2011

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(Reuters) -- Some 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women have used contraceptive methods banned by the church, research published on Wednesday...

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The Weekly Pulse: Michael Pollan's Rules for Thanksgiving, Plus Whole Foods' Healthcare Lies

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Editor's Note: Happy Thanksgiving from the Media Consortium! This week, we aren't stopping The Audit, The Pulse, The Diaspora, or The Mulch, but we ar...

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How To Green Your Birth Control: IUDs, Vegan Condoms, The Pill and Five Other Pregnancy Prevention Choices

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011

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You may love to compost, reuse, and recycle but is your birth control as green as the rest of your lifestyle choices? Women around the world rely on b...

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America's Favorite Birth Control Method Turns 50

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.17.2011

CHICAGO — A world without "the pill" is unimaginable to many young women who now use it to treat acne, skip periods, improve mood and, of course...

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Catholics Call on Pope Benedict to Reconsider Vatican's Ban on Contraceptive Pill

Jon O'Brien | Posted 05.25.2011

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It would be a lasting and wholly positive legacy if the current pope lifted the ban on the use of contraceptives to allow Catholics to plan their families.

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