The state just implemented it.
Health & Social Policy
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Luck Not Be a Lady
Just as gay folks are winning rights, women are losing them. What a strange time to be a lesbian!
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Santorum Says He’s Not Responsible for Friess Birth Control Joke
The GOP candidate said the media was trying to play gotcha politics by asking him about the comment.
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Foster Friess: Aspirin Between the Legs is the Best Contraceptive
Rick Santorum’s billionaire backer told an astonished Andrea Mitchell that birth control was inexpensive back in his day.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Pre-Abortion Sonograms Make Their Way Into Law
As a bill requiring transvaginal sonograms passes in Virginia, Texas goes about implementing the version that it passed last year.
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Issa Birth Control Hearing: Where Are the Women?
Republican Congressman Darrell Issa holds a hearing on contraceptives without a single woman testifying.
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Colbert Explains Contraception And the War On Religion
Complete with a banana. And a guillotine. The funniest thing I have seen in a very long time.
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Virginia House Passes Personhood Bill
Virginia’s House may have passed a personhood bill, but the measure’s future—and its consequences for birth control in the state—are anything but clear.
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Birth Control Chess
The Obama administration’s compromise on contraceptives outmaneuvers the Catholic Bishops.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
What the Anti-Contraception Conservatives Really Want
They’re advocating for the right of religious institutions to disobey any law they don’t like.