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Jean Marbella: On health care, freedom for or from religion?
I once met a smart and delightful young woman who was making her way through a demanding college program despite being a single mother of two. From what I could tell, she was quite a loving mom and her kids seemed happy. But just watching her juggle...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Planned Parenthood, Health Treatments, Roman Catholicism, Family Planning
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Low-income women to get free health planning services
Nearly 35,000 low-income women in the state are now eligible for free pregnancy counseling, contraception and screenings for sexually transmitted diseases and breast cancer under a program that starts at the beginning of the year.
Lawmakers and health...Tags: Family, Health Insurance, Health Treatments, Prince George's County, Family Planning
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Standing up for contraception
In response to Susan Reimer's column ("In birth control debate, where are the women's voices?" Feb. 16), let me also step forward to say that contraception gave me the option to actively make choices in my life about when or whether to have children....Tags: Health Treatments, Family Planning
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A cost-effective approach to women's health
Social conservatives have recently gone into fits over a report released last week recommending that insurance coverage include free access to birth control as preventive care for women under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. That insuring...Tags: Diabetes, Family, Health Treatments, Elections, Happiness (state of mind)
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Sex education is a good public investment
Susan Reimer was right on the money when she suggested "[paying] for the programs that help teens understand sex and make good decisions about it, and [paying] for the health care services that provide them with options for contraception," as a sensible...Tags: Health Treatments, Physical Conditions, Teen Health, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Sun mischaracterizes bishops' statement
Thanks to the Sun's recent mischaracterization of the Maryland Catholic bishops' statement on religious freedom ("Bishops assail same-sex marriage," Nov. 10), many readers responded to one element — only five paragraphs long — of a 12-page...Tags: Health Treatments, Church and State Relations, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Same-Sex Marriage, Family Planning
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Over objections, state will lease land to Catholic hospital
Over the objections of Maryland women's rights groups, a state panel agreed Wednesday to lease land to a Roman Catholic hospital that does not generally perform abortions or provide birth control. The proposed Holy Cross Hospital would be the first in...Tags: Health Treatments, Executive Branch, Roman Catholicism, Medical Specialization, Family Planning
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In praise of Planned Parenthood
I'm responding to the recent article "Abortion controversy heating up in Indiana" (May 4). Where was the big abortion controversy before Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade when women and girls were not only forced to bear pregnancies against their...Tags: Severna Park, Physical Conditions, Health Treatments, Planned Parenthood, Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Words only go so far in thinning the deer herd
Bringing up deer. Does are pretty good at it, as the statewide population of 230,000 would indicate. But in most cases, elected officials might be better off not bringing up deer at all. The beautiful critters with the soulful brown eyes can still be...Tags: Stanley Cup Playoffs, Health Treatments, Hunting, Natural Resources, Nature
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Rehnquist dies at age 80
Sun National StaffChief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who joined the bench a generation ago as its often lone voice of conservative dissent and then steadily steered its turn to the right, died yesterday evening at his home in suburban Virginia. He was 80 and had been...Tags: Family, Personal Weapon Control, George W. Bush, Jerry Falwell, Health and Safety at School
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2006 session issues
Assault weapons ban // The Assembly rejected legislation that would ban the possession and sale of assault weapons. A federal ban on assault weapons expired in 2004. Budget // The Assembly approved a $29.4 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Same-Sex Marriage, Metal and Mineral, Voting
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U.S. cardinal sees next pope staying course
Sun Foreign StaffVATICAN CITY - One of the most senior U.S. members of the Vatican hierarchy said yesterday that American Catholics would be best served by a new pope as committed to strict interpretation of doctrine as was Pope John Paul II, even if that approach...Tags: Colleges and Universities, John Paul II, Roman Catholicism, Abortion, Church and State Relations
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