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Obama Birth Control Compromise In Works

WASHINGTON -- Faced with increasing pressure from religious groups and Catholic lawmakers in both parties over the new federal requirement for birth control coverage, the Obama administration is planning to announce an "accommodation" on Friday aimed at allaying some of the concerns of faith-driven employers. ABC News reported Friday morning that the announcement was "likely" to be made Friday. A source familiar with the deliberations told HuffPost the announcement was imminent.

One idea that has been mentioned is the "Hawaii model," by which an employer who morally objects to contraception could opt out and inform its female employees of where they can get that coverage outside of the employee health plan. In Hawaii, women who decide to directly pay the insurer out of pocket for contraception coverage are not allowed to be charged more than they would pay for their company plan.

ABC News reports that President Barack Obama's compromise would not go as far as the Hawaii plan, but would involve a third-party health company helping to provide contraception coverage. It actually makes financial sense for insurance companies to cover birth control, ABC's Jake Tapper notes, because unwanted pregnancies and resulting complications cost more than contraception and sterilization.

Under the current rule, only churches and other houses of worship are exempt from having to cover contraception at no co-pay for the women they employ. Although the compromise does broaden the conscience clause to exempt any organization who opposes birth control based on religious beliefs, the Catholic bishops have already rejected the Hawaii model as a viable alternative because Catholic organizations don't even want to refer women to contraception coverage.

"All the Founding Fathers saw that, and how far are we removed when we're sitting around talking about, well, maybe the Catholic church could make a referral to a service that it regards as intrinsically immoral," Bishop William Lori, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, told the National Catholic Reporter. "We're pretty far way from the genius that inspired the founding of this country."

The Catholic bishops have called the new health coverage rule "an attack on religious freedom" and argue that all employers who object to contraception -- not just faith-based organizations -- should be exempt from having to provide it to their employees
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/obama-birth-control_n_1267677.htmlWASHINGTON -- Faced with increasing pressure from religious groups and Catholic... more

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Pfizer recalls 28 lots of birth control pills!

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Women's Rights Round-Up: Church, Contraception and Sonograms

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Baby Moses, Human–Jellyfish Hybrids, and Transhumanism: The GOP Candidates Weigh In

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Cecile Richards: A Victory for Women

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Santorum: States Should Have The Right To Outlaw Birth Control

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Get off my Planet: Happy Birthday 7 Billion

To mark the world’s population reaching 7 billion on Halloween 2011, WORLDbytes... more

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I Hate My Kids: Trust

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Texas GOP Rep On Cuts To Family Planning: ‘Of Course This Is A War On Birth Control’

The GOP’s concerted campaign against women’s health has resulted in about 1,000 anti-abortion bills in state legislatures across the country and numerous federal attempts to eradicate a woman’s right to choose. The extremity of the efforts include attempts to redefine “personhood,” put warning labels on contraception, and criminalize birth control altogether. But while they smother women’s rights with one hand, Republicans insist “we are not attacking women” on the other. “This is not a war against women,” said Republican founder of WomanTrend Kellyanne Conway.

Texas Rep. Wayne Christian (R), however, begs to differ. With Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) at the helm, Texas Republicans have passed an “emergency” law forcing women to view a sonogram before an abortion, threatened a poor women’s health care program over Planned Parenthood funding, are seeking to restrict hospitals and physicians over abortion procedures, and has cut funding for family planning clinics by two-thirds.

When asked whether Texas’s anti-family planning efforts were “a war on birth control,” Christian replied, “Well of course this is a war on birth control and abortions and everything”:

The goal is to get government money out of the abortion process and if contraceptive services have to suffer a bit of collateral damage in the process, so be it. When The Texas Tribune asked state Rep. Wayne Christian (R-Nacogdoches), a supporter of the family planning cuts, if this was a war on birth control, he said “yes.”

“Well of course this is a war on birth control and abortions and everything, that’s what family planning is supposed to be about,” Christian said.

Family planning clinics are routinely referred to by many Texas Republican legislators as “abortion clinics” even though none of the 71 family planning clinics in the state that receive government funding provide abortions. Texas and federal law prohibits that, but most women’s health clinics will refer women or teens who want an abortion to a provider.

“They’re sitting here, referring women out to receive abortions,” Christian said in an interview with NPR. “Those are the clinics, including Planned Parenthood, we were targeting.”

While disturbing, Christian’s honesty is a refreshing change from Republicans’ more common defense that cuts to women’s health care will save money. As NPR notes, the state estimates that 300,000 women will lose access to family planning services because of these cuts, resulting in roughly 20,000 additional unplanned births. “Texas already spends $1.3 billion on teen pregnancies — more than any other state.”

There is no doubt that Republicans across the country are waging a comprehensive war against women’s health. At least Christian is willing to admit it.The GOP’s concerted campaign against women’s health has resulted in about... more

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WWH Homegrown this week; Sherry Pasquarello

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Women Free to be Sluts Under ObamaCare

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Obama Administration: Health Insurers Must Cover Birth Control With No Copays

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Birth control should be free under health plans, report says

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Al Gore: Stabilize population to combat global warming

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Studies Suggest Higher Risk Of Blood Clots With Some Birth Control Pills

A couple of papers just published by the British Medical Journal add to the evidence that the latest type of birth control pills may confer a higher risk of blood clots than older kinds of oral contraceptives.

The newer pills — including Yaz and Yasmin — contain a synthetic hormone called drospirenone. Many older contraceptives rely on levonorgestrel, another type of the progestin hormone.

As NPR's Richard Knox reported last year, Yaz quickly became the best-selling birth control pill in the U.S. after its introduction in 2006. More than

Here's a recap of the latest data.

In an analysis of a sample of U.S. insurance claims, the researchers found that women taking contraceptives with drospirenone had more than twice the risk of developing blood clots than those taking contraceptives that used levonorgestrel. The rates of blood clots (as calculated using the number per years of 100,000 women taking the medicines) was 30.8 for drospirenone and 12.5 for levonorgestrel.

A second study looked at cases of blood clots in British women who started taking an oral contraceptive containing either the new kind of progestin or the older one. The researchers found women taking the drosperinone contraceptives had a 2.7 times greater risk of developing a blood clot than those taking the older type. The rates for clots were 23 vs. 9.1 (again calculated using the clots per years of 100,000 women taking the medicines).

So what does it all mean? The increased risk suggested by these studies is about two to three times those from older pills, but the chances that any particular woman taking the newer medicines will get a blood clot is still pretty low.

Still, the studies aren't definitive, as editorial in BMJ notes. Women concerned about the issue could consider other, older options, if there's no medical reason to rule them out.

In a statement, Bayer, maker of Yaz and Yasmin, criticized the studies as flawed and affirmed the safety of its pills. "Given the already large and robust scientific body of evidence, in Bayer's opinion, these studies do not change the overall assessment about the safety of Bayer's oral contraceptives," the company said.

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98% of Catholic women use some form of birth control...

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Indonesia's birth control pill for men

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Weekly Pulse: Vermont Poised to Pass Single-Payer

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Weekly Pulse: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Deepens

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