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California makes it easier to obtain birth control
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Saturday signed into law a bill that makes it easier for women to obtain hormonal contraceptives. “At a time when some seek to turn back the clock and restrict women’s health choices, California is expanding access to birth control and reaffirming every woman’s basic…
Missouri lawmakers vote to allow employers to deny birth control coverage
Missouri lawmakers voted on Wednesday to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto on a bill that would allow employers to refuse to cover birth control and other services in employer-provided health insurance if it violates religious beliefs. The House passed the override in a 109 to 45 vote and the Senate…
Contraception battle moves to Colorado
Sandra Fluke, the unexpected face of the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate, campaigns for Obama in Denver the same week that an extreme wing of the anti-choice movement gathered enough signatures for a “personhood” ballot measure this fall in Colorado. The measure would define life as beginning at fertilization,…
Copay-Free Birth Control and Other Women’s Health Care Starting Today
Yesterday, I put up a blog post at Slate announcing the great news that the contraception mandate officially kicks in on August 1st, which is today. I personally got a notice in the mail letting me know my pills will now be available without a co-pay, so that’s pretty rad.…
Huckabee: Catholics’ birth control lawsuit is as important as MLK’s ‘Dream’ speech
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) thought Saturday morning that the news media’s coverage of 43 Catholic institutions suing the Obama administration over the birth control mandate has been very minimal. Making his usual appearance on one of the weekend editions of Fox and Friends, the GOP Southern Baptist figure…
Timothy Dolan: Obama is ‘choking’ Catholics on birth control mandate
Archbishop Timothy Dolan added another chapter Tuesday morning to the ongoing disagreement between some Catholic bishops and the White House, feeling that the Obama administration is “strangling” churches over the birth control mandate exemption. Appearing on CBS This Morning, Dolan was again adamant with his belief that the exemption made…
Catholic institutions file lawsuit against Obama over birth control mandate
A number of Catholic dioceses, schools and other institutions announced Monday afternoon that they are suing the Obama administration for the mandate on requiring most employers to cover birth control in their workers’ plans, according to The Associated Press. The University of Notre Dame, the Archdioceses of Washington, New York…
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Signs Legislation Permitting Employers to Interrogate Female Employees About Contraception Use [Updated again]
A month or so ago, I wrote about a bill in Arizona (HB 2625) that would permit employers to opt-out of the so-called birth control mandate and interrogate their female employees about their sexual practices, all in the name of “religious freedom”: You see, if a female employee seeks a…
Montana judge strikes down birth control ban
A judge in Montana ruled this week that the state’s ban on using taxpayer money to provide birth control coverage to girls on the Healthy Montana Kids program is unconstitutional. Montana District Court Judge Jim Reynolds said in his ruling that the state had failed to provide evidence that the ban…
US adds clot risks to some birth control labels
US health authorities on Tuesday ordered revised labels on some types of birth control including German pharmaceutical giant Bayer’s Yaz pills to advise of a possibly higher risk of blood clots. “Women who use birth control pills with drospirenone (like Yaz) may have a higher risk of getting a blood clot,” said a new Yaz label on the US…
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