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Birth control pill is not only about pregnancy
Maybe it's time we change the name of the birth control pill. What Rush Limbaugh doesn't understand is that women are not always about men. The so-called "pill" has been out for over 50 years now, and we aren't going to give it up. It changed our lives....Tags: Health Treatments, Viagra (drug), Birth Control, Family Planning, Drugs and Medicines
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Contraceptive is not a bad word, even though GOP candidates tell you otherwise
I remember back in the day when conversations about sex were whispered and babies were born by immaculate conception. All three of my children were. Just ask my mother. But actually I was a lucky ducky, and when I asked her where babies came from, she...Tags: Elections, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Treatments, Abortion, Birth Control
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Unclear if fetal deaths occurred in Md., Cecil prosecutor says
Cecil County's top prosecutor said Wednesday that he withdrew murder charges against two abortion doctors because he lacked definitive evidence that the fetuses at issue were terminated in Maryland.
"We know what the doctors did. We just don't know where...Tags: Lawyers, Abortion, Murder, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Cecil County
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Nor shortage of reasons for oral contraceptives
Rush Limbaugh is an attention-hogging, obnoxious and ignorant loud mouth ("Rush to judgment on birth control," March 7). His crudeness sicken me. The controversies about oral contraceptives are passe. Yes, insurance companies have to make them available...Tags: Human Body, Physical Conditions, Mouth, Family Planning, Birth Control
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A pregnant woman with HIV, and the cost of U.S. foreign aid cuts
When I met a woman I'll call "Mary" in Luwingu, a remote district in northern Zambia, she had already seen three of her children die. She did not know that she had contracted HIV until she arrived at the clinic where for the past few months I had been...Tags: Zambia, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Hillary Clinton, UNICEF, AIDS
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The right to birth control
Each year in Maryland, approximately 75,000 women unintentionally become pregnant. Of those pregnancies, about 36,000 end in abortions and 8,000 end in miscarriages. Additionally, many unintended pregnancies lead to premature births, low birthweight...Tags: Insurance, Abortion, Employment, Birth Control, Johns Hopkins University
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Eventually, the Catholic hierarchy will come around to the idea of birth control
As usual, the latest dust up over the Obama administration's decision to require church-affiliated employers to offer health-care insurance that covers contraceptives at no charge has generated more heat than light ("Obama's 'accommodation' wins support...Tags: Insurance, Health Insurance, Family Planning, Birth Control, Employment
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The power of light
It doesn’t look like much -- Janet Althen places what looks like a small flashlight with an inverted colored bulb on certain points of the body, holding it there for about 30 seconds -- but for Althen’s patients, as well as a growing number of...Tags: Symptoms, Medical Specialization, Tuberculosis, Science, Lyme Disease
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Flying while pregnant hinges on due date
Who wants to deliver a baby on an airplane?
Answer: No one. Not the mother-to-be and not the flight attendants, pilots or passengers.
That's why most airlines have fairly strict requirements for women who travel near the end of their pregnancies. Even...Tags: Transportation, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Trips and Vacations, Southwest Airlines Co., Miscarriage
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For too many, still no room at the inn
"Women are not dying because of disease we cannot treat; they are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving." — Dr. Mahmoud Fathalla, author of the "World Report on Women's Health" A young woman, large...Tags: Cesarean Section, Women's Health, Demographics, National Government, Fiction
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