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In a harshly worded 59-page opinion, a federal judge on Thursday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make morning-after contraceptive pills available over the counter to girls of all ages.Senior United States District Judge Edward...
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On Friday, a federal judge ruled that, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and younger, the government must make the morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages. The ruling said that the Food and...
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Judge Edward R. Korman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York made a controversial ruling this morning (April 5, 2013), regarding contraceptive rights for women and girls of all ages. The morning-after-pill...
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Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus called out the media for its failure to report evidence that Planned Parenthood, an organization generally backed by Democrats, supports infanticide. In an April 3 commentary piece published on the conservative...
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According to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately one in five US teens who gives birth already has at least one other child from a previous pregnancy. The report notes that of...
Read more The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention writes that many young people engage in sexual risk behaviors that can result in unintended health outcomes. Sexual risk behaviors leave adolescents at risk for HIV infection, other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs...
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How's this for a kick in the shorts? New York City has a program for distributing free condoms in an effort to prevent unwanted pregnancy and STI transmission. The thing is, police are also arresting women...
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On Wednesday, the Arkansas legislature approved the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act.Republican State Senator Jason Rapert sponsored the legislation. Democratic Governor Mike Beebe vetoed it, but the Republican-dominated...
Read more Teen sexual behavior presents physicians and families with a perplexing set of problems due to the developing psychological and physical state of teens coupled with the risk of venereal disease and unwanted pregnancies from unsafe sex. Wolters Kluwer Healthwrites that...
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Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) -- at age 89 the oldest member of the U.S. Senate -- announced yesterday that he will be retiring at the end of his current term when it ends in 2015, but not before celebrating Valentine...
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