Carolyn Jones made the wrenching decision to end her pregnancy after learning that her unborn son had severe disabilities. …
Planned Parenthood
Public Backlash Spurs Komen to Renew Ties with Planned Parenthood
Facebook and Twitter helped stir up public outcry over Planned Parenthood’s loss of funding from Komen.
Planned Parenthood Responds to Komen Reversal
Planned Parenthood thanks supporters who publicly criticized Komen’s decision to stop funding the group.
How Will Komen’s Split with Planned Parenthood Affect Women’s Health?
Will women be left without breast cancer screening services, now that Susan G. Komen for the Cure has stopped funding Planned Parenthood?
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Why Anti-Abortion Activists Leave Birth Control Out of the Debate
In case you missed Senator Jon Kyl’s recent, nonsensical argument for defunding Planned Parenthood, the New York Times’ Gail Collins had an incisive take on it last week. Much of the debate over the value of Planned Parenthood …
An Argument for Making Birth-Control Pills Available Over the Counter
American women spend about five years either pregnant, trying to get pregnant or postpartum; contrast that with the three decades they spend trying to consciously avoid having a baby.
To Slash the Abortion Rate, Dole Out Birth-Control Pills a Year at a Time
Abortion is one of those topics that gets people fired up. Everyone’s got an opinion, but one thing pretty much everyone agrees on is that it would be great if the abortion rate were lower. One thing that may help: call it the
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Does South Dakota’s ‘Justifiable Homicide’ Bill Target Abortion Doctors?
A new bill that seeks to expand the definition of “justifiable homicide” to include resisting attempts to harm an unborn child will go to vote in the South Dakota House of Representatives on Wednesday. Does this bill mean what …
What Did the Planned Parenthood Sting Really Accomplish?
Over five days in mid-January, men posing as sex traffickers entered 12 Planned Parenthood clinics in six states. They claimed to be pimps seeking medical care, birth control and abortions for prostitutes as young as 14, some in …
Is Birth Control Preventive Medicine?
That’s the question federal officials will by answering in the next year as they continue writing regulations to implement the Affordable Care Act.