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Morning After Pill

Government Files Last-Minute Morning-After Pill Appeal

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK — The Obama administration on Monday filed a last-minute appeal to delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of a...

BOTH SIDES NOW: Benghazi-Gate, Toomey-Gate and Ammo-Gate.

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.12.2013 | Politics
HuffPost Radio

2011-11-29-20111107bothsidesnow.jpgSpitzer and Matalin debate if Benghazi will prove to be more Whitewater than Watergate. Is Toomey gutsy to chide the Right for opposing his bipartisan bill just to stymie Obama? Are tyrannical feds buying up ammo to undermine gun rights?

Laura Bassett

Administration Dealt Blow In Birth Control Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics

A federal judge on Friday denied the Obama administration's request to delay his order that the Plan B morning-after pill be made available over the c...

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...

Friday Talking Points -- Most Disappointing Plan B

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics
Chris Weigant

A professional pundit was fired because he wrote an opinion piece that was factually inaccurate. Is that even a thing? "Journalists" can get fired for saying things which are false (things that five minutes of fact-checking would have proven laughably wrong), and for other stupid comments?

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.

DOJ To Appeal Order On Morning-After Pill Age Limits

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics

One day after the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced its decision to lower the age for over-the-counter birth control access, the Department O...

Minimum Age To Buy Morning-After Pill Lowered To 15

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.01.2013 | Healthy Living

WASHINGTON — The government on Tuesday lowered to 15 the age at which girls can buy the morning-after pill without a prescription and said the e...

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...

How We Won the Fight on the Morning-After Pill

Jenny F. Brown | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics
Jenny F. Brown

We didn't want full access to the morning-after pill because we live in fear, we wanted full access because the results of medical advances should be in our hands -- the birthright of every woman and girl.

Words That Shaped the Week: "Mad Men," "Chained C.P.I.", and "Arrested Development"

Vanity Fair | Posted 04.09.2013 | Media
Vanity Fair

By Juli Weiner, Vanity Fair For your edification, a look back at the phrases, nouns, and neologisms that have, for better or for worse, shaped the ...

Women of All Ages Deserve Access to All Forms of Pregnancy Prevention

Christine C. Quinn | Posted 04.08.2013 | Politics
Christine C. Quinn

Friday's momentous decision by a federal judge to overturn the age restrictions on sale of Plan B (the morning after pill) is long overdue and a landmark for reproductive rights.

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 ...

Friday Talking Points -- What the Media Missed

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.05.2013 | Politics
Chris Weigant

We've got a lot to cover this week, so we're going to try to get through everything in a rather foreshortened format. At least, that's the goal.

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...

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...

GOP Rep. Supports Abortion Pill In Cases Of Rape, Incest

The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 02.07.2013 | Denver

From The Colorado Independent's John Tomasic. Rep. Amy Stephens — a Colorado Springs Republican who once worked for evangelical powerhouse organi...

Anti-Abortion Ideology Trumped Science In Weld County

The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 02.05.2013 | Denver

From The Colorado Independent's John Tomasic. When Weld County commissioners decided to stop providing emergency contraception to county patients, ...

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.

Justice Refuses To Block Health Care Rule

AP | Posted 02.25.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday denied a request to block part of the federal health care law that requires empl...

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...

Catherine Pearson

Major Pediatric Group Throws Support Behind Emergency Contraception For Teens

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 11.26.2012 | Women

Emergency contraception is safe and effective for teenage girls, and pediatricians should push for increased access to this type of birth control, reg...