FDA To Allow 'Morning-After' Pill For 17-Year-Olds
WASHINGTON — Women's groups cheered the government's decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a...
WASHINGTON — Women's groups cheered the government's decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.23.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Seventeen-year-olds will be able to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription, a decision tha...
Pius Kamau | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
All physicians and pharmacists encounter patients they would prefer not to treat for reasons that range from moral, to personal. But we have all taken an oath: to treat everyone.
AP | Posted 05.07.2009 | Chicago
A central Illinois judge has ruled that the state can't force two pharmacists with religious objections to abortion to dispense emergency contraceptio...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
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Cristina Page | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics
Monday, the US district court finally got the anti-contraception genie, and some of the bullying lawless politics of the Bush era, back in the bottle.
Angela Heimburger | Posted 03.28.2009 | World
For many Brazilian women facing the consequences of unintended pregnancy what appears to be a progressive environment is not always the reality.
Meghan Rhoad | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
The Global Gag Rule withheld critical funds from organizations abroad which provided legal, voluntary abortions, counseled women about abortion, and engaged in advocacy for abortion rights.
Associated Press | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO - The Illinois Supreme Court has dealt a blow to a rule requiring pharmacies to dispense emergency contraception. Lower courts had dismissed ...
Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home
It is hard to imagine an America where women are worse off than they are after eight years of George W. Bush - but a McCain/Palin victory will absolutely take things from bad to worse.
David Goldstein | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
As a fellow parent I would hope that you would respect my belief that arrogant theocrats like you should stay the f**k out of our schools, and out of the private life of my child with your abstinence-only, Christianist voodoo.
Jane Smiley | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
Bristol Palin's pregnancy is at the heart of what women and the right wing have been fighting over for thirty years, and it isn't abortion, it's privacy and the right to control your own reproductive choices.
August J. Pollak | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
The right-wing mission to legalize not doing your job continues. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out t...
Sen. Jeff Merkley | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics
By redefining abortion to include the most common and effective methods of birth control, the Bush administration is attempting to deprive basic contraceptive services to women around the country.
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.24.2009 | Living