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Study: Pharmacies often deny access to morning-after pill
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may want to rethink her decision to keep age restrictions on emergency contraception after recently released research indicated that many women are being illegally denied the medication. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief Margaret Hamburg had told reporters that she backed…
U.S. mulls easier access to emergency contraception
WASHINGTON — US regulators are considering whether to grant a drug company’s request to make emergency contraception available over the counter to people of all ages instead of by prescription. Currently, the morning-after pill — which can reduce the chance of pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex…
Bunnies!
Adorable bunnies speaking for an important cause. Tell the FDA to Act on Emergency Contraception from Center for Reproductive Rights on Vimeo. Today, it’s been a year since the FDA was ordered to revisit its policy of requiring women to ask for OTC emergency contraception from a pharmacist, so they…
Please help shut down this right wing lie
So I’m reading John Aravosis writing about the Sarah Palin rape kit controversy, which he suspects was rooted in her opposition to the right of a rape victim not to be impregnated by the rapist. That strikes me as reasonable—rape kits are mainly about collecting evidence, but also contain packets…
All those pills are different pills
Here’s the last of the four videos we’ve released in the RH Reality Check series about reproductive rights. This one is about the difference between emergency contraception, the birth control pill and the abortion pill, and why right wingers are trying to confuse you about it. RH Reality Check: Emergency…
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