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• International Journal of STD & AIDS 2009 (Vol.20 No.11)

  
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  Journal of STD & AIDS 2009 (Vol.20 No.11) Title: Emotional intimacy predicts condom use: findings in a group at high sexually transmitted disease risk Skinny: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between condom use and emotional intimacy. The study was a gonorrhoea case-comparison ...
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• Virginia high school faculty chastises abstinence promotion

  
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  OneNewsNow : "More than ten faculty members e-mailed Douglas Freeman High School Superintendent Patrick Russo because of the appearance of abstinence proponent Pam Stenzel. Victoria Cobb of the Family Foundation of Virginia tells OneNewsNow that criticism also came from local affiliates of NARAL Pro-Choice and the ...
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• Baltimore City Council Passes Crisis Pregnancy Center Accountability Bill

  
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  The Baltimore Sun reports that "crisis pregnancy centers in Baltimore must display signs stating they do not provideabortions or birth-control referrals under a measure approved by theCity Council Monday night and thought to be the first of its kind inthe nation." So-called crisis pregnancy centers regularly ...
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• What Is YOUR Plan B? The Truth About Emergency Contraception

  
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  Contraception talks are often limited to women who don’t use it, encouraging them to explore different forms of contraception such as birth control pills and condoms. What if you’re one of the women who do already use contraception? Most forms of contraceptions are between 85% and 99% effective - in fact, no ...
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• Weekly Pulse: Crunch Time in the Senate

  
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  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is determined to get a health care bill passed in the Senate by Christmas. This is a momentous time, as John Nichols writes in The Nation : …Harry Reid has a health-care reform bill, and it is advancing. Indeed, with Saturday night’s 60-39 Senate vote to open a historic ...
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• Bridging the Language Gap on Rights, Literally and Figuratively

  
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  My first summer as a camp counselor, I got what I considereda bit of an unfortunate assignment.   I was   an assistant for agroup of the camps very youngest kids—three year olds.   I had hoped to be with slightly olderkids if for no other reason than they are far easier to understand.   You see the language ...
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• Beyond Stupak: Shocking Fertility Control Provisions in Health Care Reform Legislation

  
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  This article was originally published on StopFamilyViolence.org and is reprinted here with permission of the authors.  Gwendolyn Mink is co-author with Dorothy Roberts. While the latest clash over health care reform has focused onabortion funding, no attention has been paid to shocking fertilitycontrol and ...
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• Could I Be Pregnant?!

  
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  This week’s safer sex question: I’m 17 and very worried that I may be pregnant. I’ve been taking Loestrin 24fe for about 3 months now, and I have a steady boyfriend. I’ve never fully had unprotected sex, but sometimes we use a form of the withdrawal method (but only for about a minute or so). Otherwise, we ...
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• Proposed Abortion Law in Peru Meets Heavy Opposition

  
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  Various Latin American countries are creating barriers to access to safe abortion except in exceptional circumstances, while also reforming their constitutions in order to avoid any possibility of liberalizing the procedure.   But in Peru a multidisciplinary committee in charge of revising the Penal Code has ...
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• Advocacy Groups Form Coalition to Stop Stupak and Pass Health Reform Legislation

  
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  A broad group of advocacy organizations from the progressive and women’s health communities has joined together to form the Coalition to Pass Health Care Reform and Stop Stupak!   The coalition’s goal is to ensure that health care reform is passed and does not restrict women’s ability to purchase private ...
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• Adolescent Girls Bear Highest Burden of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, According to CDC

  
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  An annual report on sexually transmitted diseases released today by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that in 2008 adolescent girls 15–19 years of age had the largest recorded number ofchlamydia and gonorrhea cases (409,531) when compared to any other agegroup. Women ages 20-24 were the next most ...
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• Ending the Epidemic of Sexually Transmitted Infections Starts with Talking

  
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  The ambitious American combination of prudery and criminallyneglectful government attention to health care has resulted in another victoryfor the forces of darkness: anew record in STD transmissions for 2008.   WillWong analyzed the data for RH Reality Check .   As you can imagine, this public health disaster ...
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• Greater Equality for Indias Muslims Can Mean Greater Equality for Muslim Women

  
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  Last month Muslim women from around Indiamet at the thirdannual convention at the BharatiyaMuslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) – the Indian Muslim Women’s Movement.   Led by their founders, Zakia Soman, Naish Hasan , and Noorjahan Niaz --the 1500 women met to bring their issues to the fore of discussion and ...
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• Former Kansas Atty General Chief of Staff Under Investigation for Ethics Violations in Tiller Case

  
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  The Wichita Eagle reports today that Eric Rucker, former top assistant to Kansas State Attorney General Phil Kline, faces a formalethics complaint that he made misleading comments before the KansasSupreme Court in attempts to prosecute Dr. George Tiller for violations of Kansas law for which Tiller was repeatedly ...
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• In 180 Degree Shift, Roeders Attorney Protests Efforts by Prosecutors to Ban "Necessity Defense."

  
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  After vociferously denying a "necessity defense" could be mounted in the case of Scott Roeder, the man accused of shooting Kansas doctor GeorgeTiller in May, the public defender representing Roeder is fighting prosecutors efforts to ban the so-called necessitydefense from his trial, reports the Wichita Eagle . The ...
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• Connie Shultz: Reproductive Health Is Not A "Social Issue"

  
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  Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Connie Shulz takes on the language issue in the debate around reproductive health in her column this past weekend . "Language matters, so lets be clear: Womens reproductive health is not a social issue, writes Shulz. Deciding whether to carry ...
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• Update & Correction: Mandatory Coverage of Birth Control Not Insurance Commissioners Purview

  
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  Last week, I wrote about a twitter petition that was started to let Washington DCs new Insurance Commissioner, Gennett Purcell, know that allowing private insurance companies to opt out of covering contraception under individual plans was unacceptable.  The petition was in response to a first-hand account of one ...
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• Roundup: Enforcement of Illinois Parental Notification Law Delayed Until 2010

  
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  NOTES FROM THE NEWS: Illinois parental notification law put on hold again According to Chicago Public Radio , a restraining order upheld in circuit court has once again delayed enforcement of the lllinois law requiringdoctors to notify parents that their teen daughter is seeking an abortion. The delay is in ...
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• Marriage Promotion Trumps Effective Prevention Strategies In Abstinence-Only Programs

  
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  Abstinence-only-until-marriageprogram have always been more about marriage than they are about sex. Though they are often billed asreplacements for comprehensive sexuality education or as teen pregnancy or STDprevention programs, in truth, they are more focused on promoting marriage thanpreventing anything. ...
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• Anti-choice Groups Denounce Nevada "Egg-As-Person" Amendment

  
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