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• NOW Applauds Judge Kormans Refusal to Suspend Ruling on Plan B; Calls on Obama Administration to Comply

  
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  http://now.org/press/05-13/05-10.html NOW calls on the Administration not to ask the appellate court for a stay. NOW will not back away from our defense of the health and safety rights of women. The Obama Administration should tell the court on Monday that it will now simply follow the law.
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• Come One, Come All: A Contraceptive Conundrum

  
  Persephone Magazine — Authority: 553
  Even before Little Juniper arrived, I was faced with questions about my contraceptive choices. Come to think of it, my GP asked me about my contraceptive choices when I went there to say those wonderful words, “I think I’m pregnant.” After having Little Juniper, midwives, nurses and doctors tended to coo over ...
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• Treatment of Victims of Sexual Violence (I)

  
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  Imagine, if you would, a female victim of sexual violence placed before a physician who, perhaps, operates in an emergency setting. Potential consequences of sexual violence can include impregnation and this concerns she who has experienced assault. I wonder of the extent to which readers are familiar with how ...
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• Quote of the Day

  
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  [Content Note: War on agency.] "Youre disadvantaging young people, African Americans, the poor—thats the policy of the Obama administration?" — District Court judge Edward Korman this morning, "in a charged and dramatic two-hour hearing in which the Obama administration defended its arbitrary policy to limit ...
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• Plan B pills available to 15 year old kids? This has enormous implications.

  
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  Once again, the illusion of consequence-free sex trumps parental rights, medical risks and more. President Obama, Planned Parenthood  and the rest of the radical Left are in favor of all children having unrestricted access to the “Plan B morning-after pill,” though for now the limit is 15 because one judge ...
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• Viewpoint: Plan B Is Very Misunderstood

  
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  Emergency contraception — which is just one more form of birth control — is in the headlines this week, with the Obama Administration’s decision to expand access by making it available over the counter, while at the same time still requiring that you must be 15 or older to buy it. This is an important moment for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Emergency contraception over the counter with no limits makes sense!

  
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  The FDA has issued new rules on over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception . It will now be on store shelves and available to anyone age 15 or over. Previously, it had been kept behind the pharmacy counter and you had to be at least 17 to purchase it. This ruling comes as a disappointment to many ...
  2 weeks ago

• FDA Approves Plan B One-Step Emergency Contraceptive For Women Over 15 Without Prescription

  
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  In what is considered a debatable move by many, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved Plan B One-Step, one of three available emergency contraceptives on the market, for use by women 15 and over with a prescription. The approval does not cover access to Plan B and ella, the two other emergency ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Center for Reproductive Rights makes Obama look conservative

  
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  Irony. One minute a federal judge is telling the Food and Drug Administration that it has to allow Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, to be sold over-the-counter to women as young as 15, and in the next, the Obama Administration is appealing the ruling, arguing the contraceptive is too untested to be allowed to teens ...
  2 weeks ago

• FDA Expands Availability of Plan B Birth Control Pills

  
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  On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it “ approved the availability of the Plan B One-Step emergency contraception pill without a prescription for women 15 and older .”  In my opinion, this decision was highly necessary. This will allow women to maintain control of their futures by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Plan B Approved For All Girls 15 And Older

  
  Seattle Mama Doc — Authority: 125
  The FDA announced today that it is approving Plan B for all girls age 15 and up without a prescription. This is good news for girls in the US of A. The easier the access to contraception, the less likely girls will have an unintended pregnancy. As many as 80% of pregnancies in teen girls [...]
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• Does Emergency Contraception Cause Early Abortions?

  
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  By E. CHRISTIAN BRUGGER | At the end of February, the Catholic bishops of Germany released a statement saying that women who are victims of rape should receive care at Catholic hospitals in Germany as a matter of course, and that “this can...
  3 weeks ago

• My Personal Experience with Emergency Contraception

  
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  During our newlywed years, contraception was a trial for us. We intended to start a family sometime within a few years of our marriage, so permanent or long-term options were out. However, we were determined not to accidentally start a family a moment too soon. Like many other couples, we wanted to build a strong ...
  4 weeks ago

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