Family Planning Is A Human Right, Says U.N.
Everybody in the world should have access to contraception, says the United Nations Population Fund. By simply helping women space and limit the number of children will add billions of dollars to the...
View ArticleOB-GYNs Say No Prescription Should Be Needed To Get The Pill
The time has come for the pill to be available over-the-counter, the nation's leading group of obstetricians and gynecologists says.Why? "There's a 50 percent unintended pregnancy rate in the U.S.,...
View ArticlePrescribe 'Morning-After' Pill For Teens Before They Need It, Doctors Say
The nation's largest group of pediatricians is urging its members to write prescriptions in advance to enable teenagers to have fast access to the so-called morning-after birth control pill."Emergency...
View ArticleDoctors And Women's Groups Urge Feds To Relax Plan B Restrictions
Dozens of medical, women's health and reproductive health groups marked the first anniversary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' decision to maintain age restrictions on the sale...
View ArticleIn France, Free Birth Control For Girls At Age 15
Beginning next year, young women in France between the ages of 15 and 18 will have access to birth control free of charge, and without parental notification. The French government says the new measure...
View ArticleBusinesses Sue Government Over Birth Control Mandate
When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, few would have predicted that one of the most contentious provisions would have to do with contraception.But today federal officials are grappling...
View ArticleOb-Gyns Told To Look for 'Reproductive Coercion'
Womens' doctors should be on the lookout for patients whose partners are unduly pressuring them to become pregnant — or even sabotaging their efforts to use contraception.That's the advice from the...
View ArticleDid Penicillin, Rather Than The Pill, Usher In Age Of Love?
We all know what fueled the sexual revolution: birth control and rock 'n' roll.But what if that's not the whole story? What if America's libido was liberated not by the pill and heady doses of Jim...
View ArticleAP: Religious Nonprofits To Get 'Broader Opt-out' From Birth Control Coverage
(The top of this post and our headline was updated at 1:35 p.m. ET.) "The Obama administration on Friday proposed a work-around for religious nonprofits that object to providing health insurance that...
View ArticleObama Administration Wades Into Birth Control Coverage Fray
The Obama administration has issued a proposal detailing how coverage for contraception will be paid for under Obamacare. The health overhaul law requires insurance plans to provide birth control...
View ArticleWhite House Tries Again To Find Compromise On Contraception
The Obama administration on Friday issued another set of proposed rules— and asked for yet another round of public comments — in a continuing quest to find a way to ensure that women receive no-cost...
View ArticleCatholic Bishops Reject Compromise On Contraceptives
It seems the third time wasn't the charm, after all.The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has officially rejected the Obama Administration's latest attempt to ensure that women with health...
View ArticleMore Women Turn To Morning-After Pill
The number of women who have used emergency contraceptive pills has increased dramatically in the past decade, according to the latest government data.A study by researchers at the National Center for...
View ArticleMorning-After Pills Don't Cause Abortion, Studies Say
The most heated part of the fight between the Obama administration and religious groups over new rules that require most health plans to cover contraception actually has nothing to do with birth control.
View ArticleGates Foundation Says It's Time For A Snazzier Condom
Last summer Bill Gates and his foundation held a competition to reinvent the toilet.
View ArticleFederal Judge Strikes Down Restrictions On Plan B
A federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., has ruled that the morning-after pill for emergency contraception must be made available over the counter to girls 16 and under.The ruling could end a more than...
View ArticleWith Plan B Ruling, Judge Signs Off On Years Of Advocacy
A federal judge ordered Friday what women's groups have failed to accomplish politically for a dozen years. He ruled that Plan B, the most commonly used morning-after birth control pill, be sold...
View ArticleFamily Doctors Consider Dropping Birth Control Training Rule
One of the more popular provisions of the federal health law requires that women be given much freer access to prescription methods of birth control.
View ArticleFDA OKs Prescription-Free Plan B Pill for Women 15 and Up
In an effort to find a compromise for a politically fraught issue, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a proposal to make the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B more available to some...
View ArticleWomen's Health Groups Angered By Morning-After Pill Moves
The administration's actions this week on emergency contraception have left many women's health groups sputtering with anger.But what really has some of the President Obama's usual allies irritated is...
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