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OTC Birth Control Pills: Answering Attacks on Access

By: Dr. Daniel Grossman | July 24, 2019

If we want to truly make birth control pills accessible to everyone who wants them, one essential step will be to make them available without a prescription.

Reproductive Health

We Must Stand Strong in the Fight for Affordable Contraception

By: Jessica Grossman | February 24, 2017

In these turbulent political times, we must continue to stand up for policies and regulations that support funding and broad access to contraception.

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Birthing of Health Care Plan Put Midwives in Limbo

By: Crystal Lewis | May 29, 2014

About half of all U.S. births are covered by Medicaid, which means decisions about delivery practices under this part of the Affordable Care Act could ripple far and wide. The American College of Nurse Midwives is assessing all 277 marketplace plans.

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Hobby Lobby Case Could Deliver Women a Bitter Pill

By: WeNews Staff | March 25, 2014

The government’s right to require employers to cover women’s birth control faces a High Court decision on the competing demand by a corporation to assert religious principles. Many expect the court decision to split along party lines.

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Religious Birth Control Barriers Block the Best RX

By: Carol Roye | February 7, 2014

Getting health insurance through a Catholic organization is one way that some women aren’t getting coverage for contraception, says Carol Roye in this excerpt from “A Woman’s Right to Know.” Attacking birth control access is especially damaging for poor women.

Abortion

High Court Takes on Birth Control, Activists Ignited

By: Reshmi Kaur Oberoi | November 27, 2013

Activists on both sides rushed to Twitter when the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases this spring that are classic conflicts between religious beliefs and women’s right to unbiased health care.

Arts & Culture

Title X Needed Now More Than Ever Under Obamacare

By: Andrea Flynn | November 21, 2013

The only federal program dedicated to family planning will be critical to the job of providing and expanding women’s health care under the Affordable Care Act. But several states are attempting to restrict Title X at the very time it is needed most.

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Affordable Care Act Benefits Women: Here’s How

By: Michael Cahill | October 15, 2013

Read on to learn or review the ways the ACA will dismantle costly gender discrimination in health insurance and benefit millions of American women when its major provisions take effect next year.

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Female Governors Run in Tail Winds of ACA Votes

By: Sharon Johnson (WeNews senior correspondent) | October 9, 2013

The quartet of women running for gubernatorial reelection will be facing voter reaction to their decisions to accept or reject Medicaid expansion. First of two stories on Govs. Susana Martinez, Mary Fallin, Nikki Haley and Maggie Hassan.

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‘Young Invincibles’ Jingle Keys to Health Reform

By: Sharon Johnson (WeNews senior correspondent) | September 3, 2013

As the Affordable Care Act gets close, younger Americans are being courted by both sides of the debate. Precarious finances–rather than opposition to paying for older people’s health care–could stop many from signing up.

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