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Feds to comply with morning-after pill ruling
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government on Monday told a judge it will reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions. The Department of Justice, in the latest...
Tags: Justice System, Justice and Rights, White House, National Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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Board OKs petition form for abortion proposal
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An anti-abortion group seeking to ban Michigan health insurance plans from covering abortions without a supplemental policy cleared an early hurdle Wednesday in its effort to take the proposal to voters, even without Republican...Tags: Incest, Voting, Social Issues, Washington, DC, Elections
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FDA: Morning-after pill OK for ages 15 and up
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is moving the morning-after pill over the counter but only those 15 and older can buy it — an attempt to find middle ground just days before a court-imposed deadline to lift all age restrictions on the...Tags: Justice System, Patty Murray, Crime, Law and Justice, Food and Drug Administration, Health Treatments
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CDC: 1 in 8 U.S. women binge drink 3 times a month
CBS NewsThe dangerous activity of binge drinking -- defined as consuming four or more alcoholic drinks at one time -- can take a toll on anyone's health. And, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals in a new report, it's an under-recognized...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Diseases and Illnesses, Social Sciences, High Schools, Disease Prevention
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Court blocks Indiana defunding of Planned Parenthood
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana stepped between women and their physicians when it enacted a law that blocked Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood just because the organization provides abortions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 7th U.S....
Tags: Justice and Rights, Mitch Daniels, Crime, Law and Justice, Health Treatments, American Civil Liberties Union
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Legal language pivot of Ind. abortion drug fight
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A legal loophole could become the latest weapon in the fight over abortion rights as opponents push Indiana to rewrite a law that defines abortion clinics so it includes facilities offering the procedure without surgery by...
Tags: Justice System, Hospitals and Clinics, Criminal Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Food and Drug Administration
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Court: Girls can buy morning-after pill, for now
LAURAN NEERGAARD,Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Girls of any age can buy generic versions of emergency contraception without a prescription while the federal government appeals a judge's ruling allowing the sales, according to a ruling Wednesday by a federal appeals court. The...Tags: Justice System, Manhattan (New York City), Crime, Law and Justice, Food and Drug Administration, Human Interest
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Group delivers signatures asking for GOP apology over 'vagina' rebuff
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan groups upset over last month's silencing of a female Democratic lawmaker who said "vagina" during a House debate about anti-abortion legislation and another who said "vasectomy" held a rally Wednesday, declaring they'...Tags: Justice System, Social Issues, Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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Medicaid official rules against Indiana abortion law
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's decision to deny Planned Parenthood Medicaid funds because it performs abortions denies women the freedom to choose their health care providers, a federal hearing officer said. The state had asked the Centers for...
Tags: Trials, Justice System, Medicaid, Criminal Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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More abortion restrictions anticipated in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The owner of Mississippi's only abortion clinic says she expects legislators to keep trying to put new restrictions on the facility and the procedure, regardless of how a federal judge rules in a fight over a new state law....Tags: Justice System, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice
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Planned Parenthood offers free Pap tests next week
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Indiana says it will offer free Pap tests at 19 of its health centers next week. The free tests are in celebration of National Women's Health Week. Locally, the free testing will be on May 17 in...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Social Issues, Family Planning, Health, Planned Parenthood
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Two female Michigan lawmakers silenced after vagina, abortion comments
Freedom of speech has it limits at least in the Michigan House of Representatives. State Reps. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, and Barb Byrum, D-Onondaga, were told today that they wouldn't be recognized to publicly speak on any matters before the House...Tags: Social Issues, Medical Procedures and Tests, Republican Party, Politics, Freedom of the Press
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