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Romney Fundraiser Hosted By 'Abortive Pill' Maker's Chairman

Posted 05.10.2012

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Mitt Romney recently slammed the morning-after pill as an "abortive pill," but the Republican presidential candidate will be hobnobbing with its manuf...

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Mitt Romney Denies Massachusetts Law Required Catholic Hospitals To Offer Morning-After Pill

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In 2005, then Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney reluctantly supported a law requiring all hospitals in the state -- including Catholic ones...

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Ex-Teacher Faces Felony For Giving Student Emergency Contraceptive

Posted 04.10.2012

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A former Texas High School teacher faces felony charges for delivery of a dangerous drug after admitting to police that she gave a student an emergenc...

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A Morning After Pill Vending Machine?

AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 04.08.2012

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Students at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine, an idea that has drawn the...

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College To Offer Plan B In Vending Machines

AP | KEVIN BEGOS | Posted 04.08.2012

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Students at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine, an idea that has drawn the...

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The Surprising Reason Low-Income Teens Are Denied Access To Plan B

Posted 01.25.2012

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The highest teen pregnancy rates in the U.S. are in low-income areas, and a surprising new study finds that in these communities, teens also have the ...

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Newt Mailer Hits Rival For Supporting 'Abortion Pills'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.18.2012

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Newt Gingrich is attacking Mitt Romney's past support for abortion rights in a mailer blanketing South Carolina households. The mailer, obtained by...

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Mitt Romney Made Controversial Birth Control Veto

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 01.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney artfully dodged a question about whether states have the right to ban birth control during Saturday's Republican presidentia...

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PHOTOS: The Banners On Market Street Say WHAT?

Robin Wilkey | Posted 01.04.2012

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Market Street lamp poles are generally reserved for ads from SFMOMA or the zoo. But this month, we have a feeling the silver banners reading, "U.S. Ou...

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Colo. Christian University Sues Over Obama Birth Control Provision

AP | Posted 12.22.2011

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DENVER -- Colorado Christian University has a filed a lawsuit challenging the Barack Obama administration's health care legislation requirement that t...

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Science Has the Answer -- Depending on the Question

Michael D. Fayer | Posted 02.17.2012

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In making her decision on Plan B, Kathleen Sebelius did not say that the FDA's science was wrong or that she had her own experts who disagreed with the FDA. She was making a policy decision, not a scientific decision.

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HHS Protects Kids In Vetoing Plan B Decision

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 02.15.2012

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Health and Human Services acted to protect kids Dec. 7 when HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected a recommendation of the Food and Drug Administration to let stores sell powerful hormonal drugs to children over the counter.

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Elizabeth Warren Weighs In On Plan B Emergency Contraception

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Warren has spoken almost exclusively about the economy in her public appearances as she runs for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts....

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In Contraception Battle, Teen Girls Are Ones Who Lose

Laura Stepp | Posted 02.14.2012

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So what was the HHS decision really about? What everything seems about in Washington these days: Garnering political support for President Obama in next year's presidential race.

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Is Obama On Thin Ice With Women Voters?

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 12.14.2011

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Women played a huge role in propelling President Barack Obama to victory during the 2008 elections, supporting him more strongly than men by seven per...

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Senators Demand Answers On Administration's Plan B Decision

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Fourteen Democratic senators, led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), sent the Obama administration a letter on Tuesday asking for the scien...

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'How About Plan 'D For Data' For Plan B?'

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 02.12.2012

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I have an opinion about Plan B. It's that we can, and should, do better than opinion when making decisions that affect health, and have the potential to change the course of lives.

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Would Hillary Clinton Have Approved Wider Access To Plan B?

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.09.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration shocked reproductive rights groups this week when it struck down a recommendation by government scientists to m...

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Plan B Aftermath: Democratic Women In Congress Go Easy On Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 12.09.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Women's rights groups expressed outrage on Wednesday when a top Obama administration official overruled a recommendation from government...

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10 States Spending The Most On Health Care

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.08.2011

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How much Americans spend on health care can vary widely across the country, and it's those states with wealthier populations that tend to spend the mo...

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Obama Calls Plan B Decision 'Common Sense'

AP | BEN FELLER and LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 02.07.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Thursday it was just common sense to keep girls under the age of 17 from being able to buy a morning-af...

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Obama Defends Morning-After Pill Decision

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama threw his support behind Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Thursday regarding her controve...

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Plan C Anyone? The Politics In Science

Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 02.07.2012

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The decision to deny over-the-counter-access to Plan B is particularly awkward for an administration that early on pledged to "base our public policies on the soundest science."

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My Plan B Story

Dion Nicole | Posted 02.06.2012

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Sadly, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ruled today not to make Plan B, aka the morning-after pill, available over the counter.

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Plan B Over-The-Counter Plan Struck Down

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.06.2012

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The Food and Drug Administration recommended on Wednesday that Plan B One-Step, commonly referred to as the "morning-after pill," be made available ov...

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