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WATCH LIVE: Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks at Georgetown Univ.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks at commencement ceremonies at Georgetown University. Some Catholic leaders have objected to Sebelius’ speech because of an Obama administration mandate requiring all health insurance to cover contraception for women. Watch this live video from CNN, broadcast May 18, 2012.  …

Bachmann: ‘Health care dictator’ could force one-child policy

While most of the media was covering the results of Super Tuesday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) appeared on the GBTV program Real News From The Blaze to warn that the Obama administration’s contraception mandate could lead to one-child policies like those in China. “Women have a lot to lose under…

Suit seeks to make ‘morning-after pill’ available to girls

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Reproductive rights advocates on Wednesday asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to make the “morning-after pill” immediately available to girls of all ages without a prescription. The move by a coalition headed by the Center for Reproductive Rights attempts to override a decision by U.S. Secretary…

Obama admin. allows Medicaid protections for same sex couples

The Obama administration on Friday issued a policy guidance memo that effectively gives same sex couples the same protections as straight couples under Medicaid, the public health program for poor Americans. While the memo does not carry the weight of law, it advises states that the administration does not consider…

Up to half in US have pre-existing conditions: study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As many as 129 million Americans under age 65 have medical problems putting them at risk of being rejected by insurance companies or having to pay more for coverage, according to a U.S. government study reported by the Washington Post on Tuesday. The Department of Health and…

US to apologize for ‘atrocious’ STD experiments in Guatemala

Unlike Tuskegee experiments, doctors intentionally infected patients with gonorrhea, syphilis, encouraged them to spread the STDs and many were left untreated Update at bottom: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius call study conducted between 1946 and 1948 in Guatemala ‘clearly unethical’ and ‘reprehensible’; at least one…

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