Tag Archives: reproductive health
Senate to vote tomorrow on whether your boss can dictate your health care coverage
TweetTomorrow, the Senate is expected to vote on the Blunt amendment, which, as we’ve reported, would “allow any employer to exclude any health service coverage by claiming that it violates their religious or moral convictions.” Birth control? HIV treatment? Maternity care? Whateves. Republican supporters are saying it isn’t that big a deal–that it’s just the [...]
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“God wouldn’t have given women tummy-pockets if he didn’t want babies swimming around in them!”
TweetLet the great Ron Swanson–I mean, Nick Offerman–and some other late-middle-aged men explain why they know best when it comes to women’s reproductive health. Women’s Health Experts Speak Out from Judd Nelson Transcript after the jump via Shakesville. Tweet
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Texas willing to throw 130,000 poor women under the bus to stick it to Planned Parenthood
TweetVia KYBOOMU, it seems that Texas, in its stubborn quest to deny funding to Planned Parenthood, is willing to sacrifice an effective and much-needed program that provides reproductive health care to 130,000 thousand low-income women. Last year, the Texas legislature passed a law making it illegal for the state to provide Medicaid funds to any [...]
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No-duh contraception reminder of the day: Birth control costs money
TweetThere a lot that’s surreal about the recent debate over birth control coverage. For one: the timing. It’s 2012 and news stories about birth control in the U.S. have to include a reminder that 99% of heterosexually active women have used it. You’ve got Fox news saying liberals support birth control “to get rid of [...]
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