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Birth control for gerbils?

China has used using contraceptive pills to cut down the number of gerbils in a... more

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Morning after pill available online

Lloyds Pharmacy is selling the morning after pill online.

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STD BOOTH

Check out the hot new gift for you wife, sister, or girlfriend. Well, probably not... more

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Vatican Radio snubs drugmaker over contraception

Vatican Radio has withdrawn an invitation to the head of Novartis to act as an... more

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Contraceptive pill to blame for male infertility: Vatican

The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for... more

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Bush administration still trying to redefine birth control as "abortion"

Can you imagine living in a place where health insurers won't cover birth control... more

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New female condom under FDA review

A new, potentially less expensive version of the female condom faces U.S. regulatory... more

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Religion and sexual ethics

I just think sexual morality have challenged the basis for the church’s... more

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Safe sex!

It's been exactly 15 years since the FDA first approved "female... more

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The Pill without a prescription

If you live in Lambeth or Southwark in London, you'll be able to get the Pill... more

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Every school should have sex clinic

The National Children's Bureau has advised the government that every secondary... more

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Virginia Pharmacy Won't Sell Contraceptives

Found this article while doing a research project for a drug education class. A... more

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'Pregnancy pact' school in Mass. allows contraceptives to be distributed

"The board of the Massachusetts high school at the center of the June... more

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Mum on pill gives birth, to triplets!

A Hampshire woman has beaten odds of over 200 million to one to become pregnant with... more

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US cuts funding for condoms in African clinics

The supply of contraceptives at Marie Stopes International family planning clinics in... more

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Couric Asks Palin About Abortion, Contraception

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In the latest installment of Katie Couric's interviews with Gov. Sarah Palin, Palin says she is "unapologetically pro-life", would "counsel life" for a 15 year old girl raped by her father, but does not want to see "anybody put in jail" for getting an abortion. She also said she is for contraception and any other legal prevention method, though she would not personally choose to use the morning after pill. Unasked was what she thinks about the Bush Administration efforts to make contraception less accessible, or the views of many social conservatives who believe contraception should be illegal.

It is the governing philosophy and policies, not the personal beliefs, that matter.

She would "counsel" life but doesn't want to see anyone in jail, thus one assumes the right to a safe, legal abortion would remain on the books in her world view. When you make something illegal, you make it a crime requiring some form of punishment. Palin's views appear to run counter to the stated McCain position of appointing Supreme Court Justices to over turn Roe, and the GOP platform advocates a constitutional amendment to ban all abortions.

Overturning Roe also opens the door to Congress passing a law to ban all abortions, and would immediately ban them in 23 states. She also dropped the favored anti-choice talking point about encouraging adoption, which we all support, if only it was a real solution. The fact is that the adoption talking point, is a myth, and unfortunately one the mainstream media never pushes back on.

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I wasn't surprised to see that Palin dodged questions when Couric became too specific. At one instance, Couric asks her what newspapers informed her opinion and Palin responded by saying that she read a "vast variety of sources", however when asked by Couric to mention some specifically, Palin responds vaguely and fails to mention specifics.

Throughout the rest of the interview, Palin similarly dodges questions with vague answers and banal homilies...(Please disregard the opening ad) In the latest installment of Katie Couric's... more

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Abstinence-only multimillionaire funds 527 attack on abortion issue

On a day when most Americans are looking at the news from Wall Street, as markets plunge, comes word from far-right social conservatives that one multimillionaire funder will attempt to distract voters with independent television advertising on more Culture War issues.

Last week featured the now resoundingly discredited lies about age appropriate comprehensive sex ed, discredited even by Karl Rove on Fox News Sunday when he said, "McCain has similarly gone, in his ads, one step too far and sort of attributing to Obama, things that are, you know, beyond the 100% truth test."

Those lies were about legislation in Illinois promoting comprehensive sex ed, that clearly stated in Section 2, Lines 11 and 12, that all sex ed curriculum would be "age appropriate." For Kindergartners, that meant teaching kids "good touch, bad touch" lessons to protect them from pedophiles and predators.

The abstinence-only-until-marriage crowd pushed the McCain campaign one step too far, even for Karl Rove. Now one of abstinence-only's chief profiteers, Raymond Ruddy, a wealthy multimillionaire, is going to be the primary funder of an independent advertising campaign that will attack Obama on the also discredited, by FactCheck.org, claims that he supports infanticide.

Social conservatives -- emboldened by the addition of Sarah Palin to the ticket -- are promoting Culture War issues to shift the focus away from the economy, housing, energy, the environment and national security. In the process, the debate Americans could be having on these critical issues is being distorted -- as is the reality about sexual and reproductive health.

Who can blame the far-right when at stake in the election is their access to government grants to continue profiting from their failed abstinence-only programs; their efforts to ban all abortions, even in the case of rape and incest; and to reduce access to contraception by allowing individual medical professionals to redefine contraception as abortion, as the Bush Administration is currently attempting to do.

The ad will be emotionally powerful and manipulative, but in the end it is being funded primarily by one multimillionaire, whose company Maximus, has benefited from more than $100 million dollars in government grants during the Bush Administration. That fact won't likely appear in the 30 second ad or many mainstream media reports. Meanwhile, wars still rage, the economy is in decline, the environment is a mess, Americans with jobs are concerned about losing them, and those without health care are wondering what to do if they get sick.

Raymond Ruddy, the multimillionaire behind the ads, will be okay though. Don't worry about him when you see his ads or hear the media reports about them. On a day when most Americans are looking at the news from Wall Street, as markets... more

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Elections 2008: safe sex comes to conventions

Even though Trojan Condoms launched its Evolve America tour last April, the safer sex... more

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Condoms, birth control &"morning after" pills, forms of abortion?

The Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a new regulation that would... more

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Does the Pill make it harder for women to sniff out good mates?

Birth control pills could screw up a woman's ability to sniff out a compatible... more

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