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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will offer a new accommodation to religious nonprofits that object to covering birth control for their employees. The measure allows those groups to notify the government, rather than their insurance company, that birth control violates their religious beliefs. The government is also extending an existing accommodation to some for-profit […]

Instead of taking a pill a day, what if you could take one pill that lasted 16 years? That’s the premise for a new project…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans say they’ve won an election-year victory from a Supreme Court ruling that allows some companies to opt out of providing contraception to women under the nation’s new health care law. But Democrats have also found encouragement from the ruling. They say it will be unpopular with younger voters and women who […]

Are you playing a game of STD/baby roulette? It amazes me how many adults (and even children, AHHH!) are foregoing all of the many effective…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama‘s health care law: whether businesses may use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. The justices said they will take up an issue that has divided the lower courts in the face of roughly […]

If you’re above 176 lbs, your morning after some irresponsible lovin’ may be a little different from the woman who is under 176 lbs. According…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Free birth control led to dramatically lower rates of abortions and teen births, a large study concludes. The findings were eagerly anticipated and come as a bitterly contested Obama administration policy is poised to offer similar coverage. The project tracked more than 9,000 women in St. Louis, many of them poor or […]

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More teen girls now use the best kinds of birth control, a new government study says. About 60 percent of teen girls who have sex use the most effective kinds of contraception, including the pill and patch. That’s up from the mid-90s, when less than half were using the best kinds, the Centers for Disease […]