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Report finds 233 million women will lack contraception access by 2015
An estimated 233 million women in their fertile years will lack access to modern contraception by 2015, up from 221 million in 2010, according to a study published on Tuesday. Excluding China, developing countries will account for more than 80 percent of the unmet need, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, experts…
Transparently Bad Religious Arguments Against Contraception
As this Daily Show clip amply demonstrates, right wing media has abandoned any pretense that they object to contraception coverage for noble reasons, and have instead just moved on to talking about women who use contraception (aka, nearly all women at some point in their lives) as if they’re oversexed…
Giuliani: If contraception is covered, ‘it’s only fair’ to provide Viagra
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says that if President Barack Obama’s health care reform law is going to force insurance companies to cover contraception then “it’s only fair” that men are provided with pills to treat erectile dysfunction. Speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce earlier this week,…
Study shows free birth control results in fewer abortions
A three-year study conducted in St. Louis, Missouri showed that when effective contraception is available to women for free, the number of abortions and teen births sharply decline. According to the Associated Press, the results are eagerly awaited by Obama administration officials hoping to make the case for a similar…
Study shows women use contraception to control lives, complete education and achieve goals
A recent study by the reproductive health and rights group the Guttmacher Institute confirms what many people have long known and suspected, that access to contraception helps women better care for themselves and their families, complete their education and achieve economic security and stability. The study, titled “Reasons for Using…
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.…
The Junior Anti-Sex League Gets Bolder
Via Thers at Eschaton, I see that Maggie Gallagher continues the right wing trend of late of increasingly being upfront about their anti-sex beliefs instead of hiding their true agenda under euphemisms like “pro-life” or “traditional marriage”. Gay marriage furthers the disconnection of marriage from procreation; it helps in…
New Zealand offers contraception to women on welfare
WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s government is to offer women on welfare benefits, and their daughters, free long-term contraception in a move immediately rejected by rights groups Tuesday as insulting to women. The free contraception will be offered to teenagers on benefits as well as all women on benefits, and their…
Rubio: ‘I don’t know anything about a contraception debate’
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Sunday suggested that Democrats invented the contraception debate and the Republican Party was “more tolerant” on diverse opinions about a woman’s right to choose. Fox News host Chris Wallace asked Mitt Romney’s possible vice presidential running mate if the Republican Party would “take this country…
It’s not just contraception and abortion; it’s even the prom
When the Catholic Church and organizations are trying to exert influence over our laws, making abortion and contraception harder to access, they tend to portray their religious teachings against contraception as if they have nothing to do with misogyny. Instead, it’s talked about as if it were one of those…
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