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Smart Girl Guide to New Year's Eve

Shelby Knox | Posted 12.17.2009 | Style

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Shelby Knox

New Year's Eve - a sparkly dress, a glittering party, a bubbly drink, and if you're lucky, a kiss that lingers minutes past midnight. What better way to send off 2009 and ring in the next decade?

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Bush's Birth Control Policies Fueled Africa's Baby Boom

McClatchy | Shashank Bengali | Posted 12.14.2009 | World

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At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth c...

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Colorado Legislature Introduces Bill To Force Health Care Providers To Cover Birth Control

The Colorado Independent | Katie Redding | Posted 12.08.2009 | Denver

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A proposed state bill that would require Colorado insurance companies to cover maternity care has a new addition: The bill would also require insuranc...

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Strong Clerical Support for a Woman's Right to Choose Does Exist

Rev. Tom Davis | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Abortion, Catholicism, Abortion Rights, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Birth Control, Catholic Bishops, Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, Planned Parenthood, Health Care, Politics News
Rev. Tom Davis

Anti-abortion groups are working to torpedo all health reform if they cannot impose their religious strictures on those who follow other religious teachings. Do the moral views of other religions not matter?

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Sex Talk Comes Late For More Than 40% Of Kids, Study Says

TIME | Alice Park | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Dr. Mark Schuster, University of California Los Angeles/Rand Center for Adolescent Health Promotion, Birth Control, Pediatrics Study, Talking Parents Healthy Teens, Sex, Sex Talk, Parents Sex Talk, Safe Sex, Teenagers Sex, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Living News

In the latest study on parent-child talks about sex and sexuality, researchers found that more than 40% of adolescents had had intercourse before talk...

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Shocked -- Or Not? New Data Shows Abortion Quite Common In Most Red States

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

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Greg Mitchell

New data confirms that abortions tend to happen more often in big, blue states, but also that abortion is quite common in red states where anti-choice is strongest.

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Lessons on Birth Control from Afghanistan

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

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Madeleine M. Kunin

Providing birth control information and giving out pills is still dangerous in some areas in Afghanistan. Many fear that birth control is an American plot to weaken the country.

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Conservative Catholic College Rejects Birth Control

Reproductive Justice | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

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Reproductive Justice

Belmont Abbey College argued in court that it was a secular institution in order to receive state funds, but then removed birth control from its employee health care plan. Their reason? The Catholic Church.

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The Abortion Addict

Carol Hoenig | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

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Carol Hoenig

I could not understand how one woman made the decision to have fifteen abortions in as many years. As a pro-choice supporter, this disturbed me.

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Former Planned Parenthood Director's Holes In Story Revealed In Recent Radio Interview

Amie Newman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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Amie Newman

How did Ms. Johnson become the director of a Planned Parenthood center that provides abortions up to 14 weeks without having seen an ultrasound image?

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Whose Right to Sex Education?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Abstinence Education, Birth Control, Abstinence Only, Virginity Pledges, Sex Education, Guttmacher Institute, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Barack Obama, Wisconsin, Politics News
Philip N. Cohen

What did we get for $1.9 billion? Nothing good. Abstinence-only education has been shown to have no effect on how much teenagers have sex - none.

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Condoms Rival The Pill's Popularity Among Women

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.20.2009 | Style

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The condom has now caught up with the pill as women's preferred method of contraception, latest figures suggest....

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Birth Control Health Hazards: Popular Contraceptives Put Women At Higher Risk For Blood Clots, Strokes, Other Health Problems, Researches Say

nytimes.com | NATASHA SINGER | Posted 11.26.2009 | Living

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But recently, the Yaz line's image has been clouded by concerns from some researchers, health advocates and plaintiffs' lawyers. They say that the dru...

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Teaching to the Choir on Marriage

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

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Philip N. Cohen

Opposing sex is such a losing battle that some advocates are proposing, if not an actual retreat, at least an advance in a new direction.

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Birth Control Could Help Developing World Combat Climate Change

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

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LONDON — Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Frid...

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Women's Labor and Infertility

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Family Friendly Policy, Later Motherhood, Infertility, Labor Day, Resolve, Health Care Reform, Birth Control, Work-Life Balance, Business, Delayed Childbearing, Living, Women's Work, Fathers, Living News
Elizabeth Gregory

Released from old biological constraints, women have flooded the universities and climbed career ladders, redefining "women's work" by expanding it to include just about every field, and doubling our national talent pool.

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Media Blind to GOP Hypocrisy in Health Care Debate

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Angela Bonavoglia

The Republicans protesting health care reform are the same people who have brought us an avalanche of governmental regulations dictating the availability of women's reproductive health care.

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Abortion Is New Front in Health Care Battle

Wall Street Journal | FAWN JOHNSON and LAURA MECKLER | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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Most versions of the Democratic health plan would create subsidies for lower-income people to buy private health insurance. If that insurance includes...

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Women's Health Is Universal Health Care

Cecile Richards | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

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Cecile Richards

Does anyone else see the irony in the U.S. bishops wanting to define universal health care as covering everything except for what they don't support?

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Women Need a Plan B

Kelli Conlin | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

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Kelli Conlin

Heightened awareness is critical to increasing use of Plan B: a safe, effective back up method of birth control. Nearly 40 percent of women 18-30 remain unaware of this valuable medication.

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Why We Love Mad Men

Victoria Namkung | Posted 09.03.2009 | Home

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Victoria Namkung

While it may seem like watching Mad Men is like opening an archive to the past, I think we watch it because its themes are symbolic to the present.

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Misleading Attacks on Women's Health

Cecile Richards | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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Cecile Richards

It was only a matter of time before the right-wing campaign against health care reform began to focus on abortion, and last week the Family Research Council pulled out all the stops.

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Catholic Bank Apologizes For Owning Shares In Birth Control Company

BBC News | Posted 09.02.2009 | World

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A Roman Catholic bank in Germany has apologised after admitting it bought stocks in defence, tobacco and birth control companies....

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China Abortions Pass 13M, Prompting Critique Of Sex Ed Programs

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

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BEIJING — China performs more abortions than any other country in the world, about 13 million a year, mostly for young single women who aren't u...

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How Green Is Your Birth Control? (POLL)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green

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With the abundance of contraceptive products available, many have begun to examine the environmental ramifications of their birth control. The fear of...

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