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Emergency Contraception

Duped Again on Emergency Contraception

Michael Halpern | Posted 05.07.2013 | Science
Michael Halpern

A few weeks ago, I celebrated as a federal judge ordered the FDA to make "Plan B" available over the counter without restrictions. I thought that the judge's ruling would provide the Obama administration with political cover. Surely they would respect the decision. I was wrong.

Judge: Obama Administration Playing Politics With Birth Control Order

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK — A federal judge, asked by the government on Tuesday to freeze his plan giving teenage girls broader access to morning-after birth con...

Judge Urged Not To Delay Morning-After Pill Ruling

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK — Reproductive rights advocates urged a judge Monday to let teenage girls buy morning-after birth control without a prescription beginn...

Obama: FDA Decision On Plan B Leaves Me Feeling 'Very Comfortable'

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics

President Barack Obama extended support on Thursday for the FDA's decision to institute age 15 as the new limit for over-the-counter sales of Plan B. ...

Obama Decision Sets Off Firestorm From Allies

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics

MEXICO CITY — President Barack Obama said Thursday he was comfortable with his administration's decision to allow over-the-counter purchases of ...

Plan B's Plan B

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics
Chris Weigant

The Obama administration is trying to have it both ways on the "morning after" pill, and by doing so is taking a firm anti-scientific stand for irrationality. But Obama promised us all, in his first campaign, to do away with having politics dictate federal scientific policy.

Laura Bassett

FDA Lowers Age Limit For Morning-After Pill

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics

The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it will make a brand of emergency contraception known as Plan B One-Step available over the...

Geographic Technology Helps Put Ethiopia on Map of Global Health Success

David J. Olson | Posted 04.24.2013 | Impact
David J. Olson

In just six years, DKT Ethiopia has transformed its system for tracking contraceptive sales from pins and pencils to computers and satellites and, in the process, helped create a family planning and HIV prevention success story in the Horn of Africa.

Bubblegum and the Date Rape Cocktail

Mark Morford | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics
Mark Morford

After years and ridiculous politicking and inexplicable delays, a federal judge just ordered the FDA to finally allow emergency contraception to be made available over the counter for women and girls of all ages. It's true. And it's sort of a big deal.

Obama Faces Choice On Morning-After Pill Limits

AP | JOSH LEDERMAN and LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 04.08.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama supports requiring girls younger than 17 to see a doctor before buying the morning-after pill. But fighting that ...

Judge Makes Big Decision On Morning-After Pill

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 04.08.2013 | Politics

A federal judge ruled Friday that the morning-after pill, known by its brand name of Plan B, should be available without a prescription or any age or ...

Laura Bassett

Federal Judge To Rule On Morning-After Pill For Teens

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics

A U.S. district court judge is expected to issue a ruling in the next few days on whether the Food and Drug Administration should make emergency contr...

New Vision for Contraceptive Research and Development

Peter J. Donaldson | Posted 05.06.2013 | Impact
Peter J. Donaldson

Members of the ICCR -- along with many others in the field -- are creating better contraceptive technologies that improve the lives of women and men around the world. Working together, we will speed the search for new methods that meet the diverse needs of women and their partners.

Laura Bassett

Not Knocked Up: Birth Control Use Widespread

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.14.2013 | Politics

Virtually all sexually active American women have used some form of contraception in their lives, and the use of condoms and the so-called morning-aft...

Having a 'Plan B'

Hannah Weintraub | Posted 03.11.2013 | Teen
Hannah Weintraub

We should be applauding young women who seek out emergency contraception for their maturity in taking control over their sexual lives. No girl should be ridiculed for deploying her back-up plan.

Court Rules Conservative Chain Must Cover Emergency Contraceptives

AP | TIM TALLEY | Posted 02.20.2013 | Politics

OKLAHOMA CITY — Hobby Lobby Stores asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to block part of the federal health care law that requires it to provi...

43 Million American Women Shouldn't Be "At Risk"

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 12.13.2012 | Politics
Soraya Chemaly

Usually, societies try to reduce risks, especially those that are preventable. But we'd still rather give mainstream voice to ill-informed, nostalgic conservative malaise than enable teenage girls and adult women to manage their own reproduction.

Emergency Contraception Should Be Available Over the Counter -- and You Can Make That Happen

Kirsten Moore | Posted 02.07.2013 | Politics
Kirsten Moore

Medical science, not political ideology, should govern which products are safe and effective. It is clear women of all reproductive ages will be better off when emergency contraception is easily accessible and in their hands.

Katy Hall

5 Awful Reasons For Limiting Access To Birth Control

HuffingtonPost.com | Katy Hall | Posted 11.27.2012 | Politics

Emergency contraception should be made available to teenage girls over the counter, a major pediatric group recommended Monday, just a week after the ...

Teenagers Have Sex: Deal With It

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 12.12.2012 | New York
Marianne Mollmann

High School students under the age of 19 account for approximately one-third of all newly diagnosed sexually transmitted infections in New York State. And not surprisingly, teen mothers are much less likely to graduate from high school than their peers who didn't give birth.

Ending Medical Manipulation

Patricia Miller | Posted 11.06.2012 | Science
Patricia Miller

Social conservatives have every right to hold the religious belief that life begins at conception and to act accordingly in their private lives. But they don't have a right to distort science to achieve their ends.

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

Posted 05.10.2012 | Miami

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

Birth Control Battle: The Christian Stance Doesn't Make Sense

Alton Lu | Posted 04.18.2012 | Home
Alton Lu

What happens if abortion is no longer legal? What happens when students are continually subjected to abstinence-only education and people unable to receive contraception?

John Celock

Birth Control Debate Moves To States As Obama Rule Simmers

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.10.2012 | Politics

With birth control issues taking center stage at the federal level with the Obama administration's new rules requiring insurers to provide contracepti...

Ex-Teacher Faces Felony For Giving Student Emergency Contraceptive

Posted 04.10.2012 | Home

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...