Tag: birth control
Free birth control program in Colorado reduced teen births by 40%
If only conservatives would wise up and realize that making birth control more readily accessible would likely lead to far fewer unwanted pregnancies – and by virtue far fewer abortions. A program that provides contraceptives to low-income women contributed to a 40-percent drop in Colorado’s teen birth rate between 2009…
Vox: Colorado offered free birth control — and teen births fell by 40 percent
There’s been a lot written here (and in a bunch of other places) about the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing Hobby Lobby to refuse to provide health insurance coverage for contraceptives for its female employees, and shortly after the Supreme Court’s decision, I noted on Twitter that the Hobby…
Hobby Lobby Ruling Should Move Us Toward Single Payer Health Coverage
Any number of GOP pundits have condemned the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) as the start of the slippery slope to single payer health care in the United States. To that I can add, I only hope! But as part of yesterday’s Supreme Court Ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby’s…
State Senator Grothman Suffering From Raging Myopia
In an article about the egregious Supreme Court ruling in favor of ‘freedom of religion’ for Hobby Lobby in the second front on the war against woman, State Senator Glenn Grothman celebrated his deep sense of provincialism: “The Supreme Court ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby is a big win…
Callie Otto: A letter to the editor – and to Sen. Ron Johnson
Over the last few weeks birth control access across the country has been hotly debated- sadly mostly inaccurately. Just last week Rush Limbaugh implied that women need access to more birth control because they are having more sex. Clearly, Rush missed high school health class because women take birth control…
Which Republican Governor Will Cause the Next Kent State?
I know Zach asks us to try to keep our embedded videos short and to the point…and this one runs 12 minutes. But I think it’s worth viewing…at least pay attention to the last few minutes of it. Here we have a protest at the Capitol in Virginia over their…
Paul Ryan’s friend, Rush Limbaugh is in trouble…
“I love the women’s movement — especially when walking behind it.” –Rush Limbaugh Rush Limnbaugh is at it again…when he is not being a racist, a bigot, or downright ignorant, he is being a sexist. His latest you can file the latest disgusting remarks under sexism. Rush Limbaugh’s trembling jowls…
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