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Birth Control Is a Critical Health Need

Vanessa Cullins | Posted 08.28.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Supreme Court, Birthrate, Health, Prescription, Connecticut, Ovarian Syndrome, Teen, Affordable Care Act, Reproductive Health, Griswold, Birth Control, Diabetes, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Planned Parenthood, Health Care, Bv-Politics, Black Voices News
Vanessa Cullins

Birth control has had such a dramatic impact on women and families in this country that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named it one of the top 10 public health achievements of the past century.

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Griswold, Privacy, and the Right of Women to Religious Liberty

Nancy K. Kaufman | Posted 08.07.2012 | Politics
Read More: Griswold v Connecticut, Griswold, Contraception, Birth Control, Employers Contraceptives, Employer Health Insurance Contraception, Employers Birth Control Coverage, Employers Birth Control, Employer Health Insurance Birth Control, Employer Health Insurance Contraceptives, Employers Contraception, Employers Contraception Coverage, Employers Contraceptives Coverage, Politics News
Nancy K. Kaufman

If women's right to use contraception is to mean anything at all -- if their individual right to make their own health decisions based on their own religious and ethical beliefs is to be a reality -- those rights must be protected by law from the interference of their employers.

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Celebrating Estelle

Cecile Richards | Posted 08.07.2011 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, Women's Health, Griswold, Birth Control, Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood, Politics News
Cecile Richards

Chances are you've never heard of Estelle Griswold. But she radically changed the lives of women in America. Forty-six years ago today, her courage secured a basic right of women to use birth control to plan and time our pregnancies and to keep our families healthy.

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