Evidence that emergency contraception is just that -- contraception -- has prompted agencies to change the labeling of the drug to underscore that EC prevents fertilization. But the strategy of anti-choicers on EC is the same-old same old: They keep blurring the lines between contraception and abortion.
Lindsay Beyerstein tells us about an under-discussed threat to women's health. Regulations on emergency contraception keep it out of the hands of people who have a legal right to it. A new study shows that the IUD is even better than you thought.
Lindsay Beyerstein tells us about a under-discussed threat to women's health. Regulations on emergency contraception keep it out of the hands of people who have a legal right to it. A new study shows that the IUD is even better than you thought.
For years, even those in the public heath community paid little attention to gonorrhea because it was easy to prevent, easy to screen for, and easy to treat—at least it was until now. Gonorrhea is caused by wily bacteria that has become resistant to all-but-one class of antibiotics and we don't have any others to throw at it. It's time to take start taking notice.
Last night, the voters of North Dakota decisively defeated a ballot initiative that one news outlet called an "ecclesiastical mugging." By a margin of 64 percent to 36 percent, voters said "no" to an effort to impose religious doctrine on health care, social policy, and law in the state.
VAWA. PRENDA. Aderholt. What do all these words (and acronyms) have in common? They represent the escalating attacks on the health and rights of women of color, and immigrant women in particular.
