New statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics indicate that the popularity of highly effective, long-acting forms of contraception is growing rapidly. Society is becoming more easy with contraception, and access needs to catch up.
I support Planned Parenthood for the same reasons millions of other people do, but I have another, more unique, reason for supporting Planned Parenthood. I have a remote connection to its origin: Anthony Comstock was a distant relative of mine.
Robert Bork may not be a sitting justice, but he has managed to leave his mark on the high court and will have great influence in a Romney Administration.
A plea to the media to ask politicians about policy and not personal views on abortion. The HPV vaccine doesn't lead to sex, but figure skating can lead a gender studies professor to write a book.
Texas's top public health official announced yesterday that if it is compelled by the courts to include Planned Parenthood in the Women's Health Program, it will simply shut the health program down entirely.
The 10th anniversary of National Latino AIDS Awareness Day reminds us how far we still have to go to address race-based health disparities. But we must keep our efforts trained on the real causes of these statistics: social and economic conditions.
The argument that access to sexual health care or information causes promiscuity is offensive to women and has been proven false time and again. Yet it seems unlikely that it we will end anytime soon.
