Birth Control Pill

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40 Years Later, an "Infallible" Ban on Modern Birth Control

Robert Engelman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Population, Catholic Church, Birth Control Pill, Family Planning, Reproductive Rights, Contraception, Reproductive Health, Birth Control, Fertility, Sex, Living News

The Church's policy paradoxically has made it harder for people of every faith to use safe and effective contraception, especially if they are young, unmarried, and poor.

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An Outrageous Attempt by the Bush Administration to Undermine Women's Rights

Hillary Clinton | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Birth Control Pill, Women's Rights, Health, Hillary Women, Contraception, Hillary Clinton, Birth Control, Plan B, Hillary Clinton Birth Control, Clinton Birth Control, Hillary Birth Control Abortion, Bush Women's Health, Clinton Huffington Contraception, Hhs Contraceptives, Hilary Birth Control Abortion, Politics News

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is poised to put in place new barriers to accessing common forms of contraception by labeling them "abortion." We can't let them get away with this.

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Harball Flirts With Women Voters

Scott Swenson | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

If Chris Matthews and the mainstream media want to add something productive to the reproductive rights debate, they should move off the 70's polarization created by the far-right.

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The Best Thing Since "The Pill"

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.19.2008 | Living

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Surely, the best thing since an invention that made it so you could have sex without having babies would be the invention that made it so you could have sex longer and later in life. Nope. It's hair dye.

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Celebrating Fertile Bodies as Well as Fertile Minds

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 02.29.2008 | Living

Barbara Seaman's general advice on new innovations for women: "wait 5 years" until we know if it's really safe.

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Myths About The Pill

Dr. Rock Positano | Posted 02.29.2008 | Living

Read More: The Balanced Life, Birth Control Pill, Weight Gain the Pill, Strokes and the Pill, Smoking and the Pill, Progestin and the Pill, Estrogen and the Pill, Health Risks and the Pill, Birth Control Myths, Birth Control Pill Myths, Living News

There's probably no prescription medicine more familiar than the birth control pill. After all, when a woman says she's taking "the Pill," everyone k...

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Remembering Barbara Seaman

Jennifer Baumgardner | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Birth Control Pill, Women's Health, Feminist, Barbara Seaman, Birth Control, Lovely Me, Jacqueline Susann, Feminism, The Doctor's Case Against the Pill, Politics News

At Ms. magazine, I was asked to fact-check a profile of Barbara Seaman, a pioneer in the women's health movement. I called her and three hours later got off the phone a changed person.

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Your Pill is Safer Because of Her

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Birth Control Pill, Women's Health, Barbara Seaman, Gloria Steinem, Contraception, Birth Control, D.C. Liberation, Barbarah Ehrenreich, The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women, The Doctor's Case Against the Pill, Politics News

Barbara Seaman, who died today, rallied to educate people about the politics of the health care industry -- in connection with the Pill and so much more.

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