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A birth control double standard
In the uproar about making the morning-after contraceptive known as Plan B available to our daughters, there has been no similar outcry about condoms and our sons. Anyone of any age can walk into a drugstore — as well as most grocery and big-box...
Tags: Justice System, Science and Technology, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Family Planning, Judges
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Hoag Hospital will stop performing elective abortions
In a letter to affiliated physicians and staff, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach announced that elective abortions will no longer be performed at the hospital because of the low number of procedures done annually. The decision was based on a review of...Tags: General Practitioners, University of California, Irvine, Religion and Belief, Family Planning, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Letters: Science vs. politics on Plan B
Re "Birth control ruling appealed," May 2 It is fitting that the online version of this article on the Obama administration's appeal of an order to remove the age limit on Plan B emergency contraception appears on The Times' Science Now blog. As a...Tags: Family Planning, Health Treatments, Birth Control
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Obama's Plan B misstep
The Obama administration overstepped its legal authority — and injected politics into what should have been a scientific decision — when it ordered the FDA to limit the availability of a common morning-after contraceptive without...
Tags: Justice System, Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Justice, Kathleen Sebelius, Judges
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Obama 'very comfortable' with age restriction on 'morning after' pill
MEXICO CITY -- President Obama says he’s “very comfortable” with a Food and Drug Administration ruling that maintains age restrictions on females who can buy the so-called morning after pill without a prescription. The rule announced...
Tags: Over-the-Counter Medicines, Judges, Health Treatments, Food and Drug Administration, Crime, Law and Justice
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Plan B One-Step debate continues
Confused by the wrangling in federal court over the Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive? You're not the only one. As U.S. attorneys work hastily to halt a federal judge's order regarding the sale of the so-called morning-after pill, medical and...
Tags: Consumers, Civil Rights, Judges, Health Treatments, Justice and Rights
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Plan B contraception and Obama's betrayal of women
President Obama spit his game, as the kids say, when he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at a Planned Parenthood conference a little over a week ago: “You’re making me blush,” he cooed to their thunderous applause. “I love you back.&...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Judges, American Academy of Pediatrics, Health Treatments, Planned Parenthood
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A plan to make the morning-after pill a moot point
It's a new front in the long-running battle over reproductive rights, playing out this time as a clash between politics and science. Doctors say there's no medical reason to keep girls of any age from having easy access to the morning-after...
Tags: Family Planning, Sprained Ankle, Health Treatments, Birth Control
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Hoag Hospital to stop performing elective abortions
In a letter to affiliated physicians and staff, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach has announced that elective abortions will no longer be performed at the hospital. The letter said the decision is based of the low number of procedures done annually at...
Tags: General Practitioners, University of California, Irvine, Religion and Belief, Family Planning, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Government will appeal Plan B emergency birth control ruling
The U.S. attorney's office announced late Wednesday that it would appeal a federal judge's decision to make Plan B One-Step and related emergency birth control pills available to consumers of all ages without a prescription. In papers filed with the U....
Tags: Justice System, Consumers, Family Planning, Judges, Trials
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Judge again rejects limits on emergency contraception
In yet another scathing critique of government health officials, a federal judge refused Friday to stay his order making emergency contraceptives available to consumers of all ages without a prescription. Calling government efforts to restrict the...
Tags: Chemical Industry, U.S. Department of Justice, Judges, Trials, Health Treatments
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Judge blasts government's Plan B contraceptive filing
In yet another scathing critique of government health officials, a federal judge refused Friday to stay his order making Plan B emergency contraceptives available to all consumers without a prescription. Ruling that government efforts to restrict the...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Judges, Trials, Health Treatments, Food and Drug Administration
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