Advocates again look to states to promote eased access to emergency contraception
By the time the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last August––for the third time since 2004––that it was not yet willing to grant over–the–counter (OTC) status to the
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The uses and abuses of science in sexual and reproductive health policy debates
In making the case for particular policies, advocates and policy makers in decades past were often content to ignore, or even denigrate, science.
The implications of defining when a woman is pregnant
According to both the scientific community and long-standing federal policy, a woman is considered pregnant only when a fertilized egg has implanted in the wall of her uterus;
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Reproductive health advocates and marriage promotion: asserting a stake in the debate
"Marriage promotion" represents a cornerstone of social conservatives' domestic policy agenda, and proposals designed to promote and strengthen marriage are gaining currency at
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The cost of contraceptive insurance coverage
Debates over improving insurance coverage of contraceptives invariably touch on the issue of cost.
Bush administration isolates U.S. at international meeting to promote Cairo agenda
Following the November 2002 elections, the Bush administration wasted no time in exercising its foreign policy authority to reward its antiabortion and increasingly anti--family
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Nowhere but up: rising costs for Title X clinics
In 2001, community-based projects funded through the federal Title X program served nearly five million Americans needing publicly subsidized family planning services and
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