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A promising technology to prevent HIV and unwanted pregnancy
It has been decades since the last major breakthrough of a popular, easy-to-use and effective form of birth control. The pill has been available since 1960 and the IUD since 1965. Condoms have been around for centuries, although today’s latex...
Tags: Health Treatments, Movies, University of Washington, Entertainment, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Latest conservative attack on Planned Parenthood falls flat
The diagnosis for what ails the conservative group Concerned Women for America: Social anemia. Irony-poor blood. The group is devoted, as its website says, to bringing “biblical principles into all levels of public policy.” Now it and some...
Tags: Social Issues, Sexual Assault, YouTube, Planned Parenthood, Media Industry
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Hobby Lobby, defying health law, refuses to cover morning-after pill
After losing a last-minute appeal to the Supreme Court, craft chain Hobby Lobby will defy a federal healthcare mandate requiring employers to provide its workers with insurance that covers emergency contraceptives. The Oklahoma City-based chain, which...
Tags: Politics, Abortion, Health Treatments, Hobbies, Lobbying
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Letters: Family planning and overpopulation
Re "Bending the population curve," Opinion, Dec. 2 The world doesn't want to consider abortion as a method of family planning, but women worldwide do to the tune of about 40 million a year. Half of these are illegal and unsafe, resulting in millions...
Tags: Social Issues, Health Treatments, Abortion, Christianity, Roman Catholicism
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Philippines president signs law easing access to contraceptives
MANILA — Philippines President Benigno Aquino III has signed legislation that will provide modern contraceptives to the nation’s poorest people and mandate sex education in public schools, a spokeswoman announced Saturday. Leaders of the...
Tags: Social Issues, U.S. Congress, Health Treatments, Roman Catholicism, Christianity
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Letters: 40 years of Roe vs. Wade
Re "Roe vs. Wade turns 40," Editorial, Jan. 22 Although there will probably never be a consensus on abortion, it is also clear that two things must happen to advance the debate. First, pro-lifers must accept that all women deserve easy and...
Tags: Social Issues, Planned Parenthood, Abortion, Abortion Issue
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Letters: Faith and family planning
Re "Family planning and Filipinos," Editorial, Dec. 19 The Times wrote: "The church has every right to try to persuade women to follow its dictates, but women must ultimately have the right to choose." Although the Roman Catholic hierarchy exercises...
Tags: Social Issues, Punishment, Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Religion and Belief
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Beyond 7 billion: Bending the population curve
Hunger. Environmental degradation. Political instability. These were among the consequences of rapid global population growth documented in a five-part series in The Times in July. Now, Opinion has invited leading scholars to consider what, if anything,...
Tags: Paul Kagame, Arts and Culture, Ecosystems, Barack Obama, Nigeria
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Letters: Emergency contraception, over the counter
Re "New policy urged on Plan B for teens," Nov. 26 As a physician and former high school teacher, I agree with the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendation of giving teens advance prescriptions for emergency contraception. I've had too many...Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, Health Treatments, Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Birth Control
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Letters: Advice Obama doesn't need
Re "He needs a family plan," Opinion, Nov. 20 Jonah Goldberg's recommendation to President Obama to advocate for better family values among African Americans is incredibly offensive. Given Goldberg's long-standing opposition to just about anything Obama...Tags: Social Issues, Barack Obama, Breast Cancer, Planned Parenthood, Republican Party
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No arrests yet in fatal punk-rock concert shooting near Torrance
L.A. NOWSheriff's detectives are continuing to investigate a brawl at a punk-rock concert at the Alpine Village Center in unincorporated Torrance that left one man dead and another wounded on Sunday.... -
Three-alarm fire ravages high school cafeteria in El Monte
L.A. NOWA three-alarm fire ripped through a Mountain View High School cafeteria before firefighters were able to knock down the blaze....
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