SAO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil’s government has added “morning after” pills to its newly expanded birth control program in hopes of helping poor people reduce unwanted pregnancies and dangerous illegal abortions.
Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao announced the addition a month after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the government would provide cheap birth control […]
Dutch Doctors call for contraceptive to be removed from the market
A report from the Copenhagen Post reveals that Denmark’s leading birth control pill has been alleged to be the cause of the deaths of two women.
Yasmin, also available in the United States, is a third generation, low dose oral contraceptive pill
So far, Dutch authorities have […]
WASHINGTON — The House voted narrowly Thursday to reverse a ban on contraception aid to groups overseas that also offer abortions, challenging a pillar of President Bush’s foreign-aid policy.
If the proposal passes the Senate, Bush is likely to veto it swiftly and be upheld by conservative lawmakers, who say no assistance should be given to […]
Arizona could save tens of millions of dollars a year by providing more birth-control services to lower-income women, public-health experts say.
That’s one of the primary reactions the experts had to last week’s news that taxpayers are now paying for slightly more than half of all the state’s births, at a cost of about $223 million […]
HOUSTON, Jun 12, 2007 (The Daily Cougar, U-WIRE via COMTEX) — In the world of health insurance, people are sorted into two categories: The insured and uninsured.
However, to be insured means being put into two more categories: male and female. As statistics show, there are more women than there are men. In fact, according […]
Sao Paulo, June 06: Supermodel Gisele Bundchen stepped into the debate over birth control and sexual behavior in Brazil on Tuesday, saying Church opposition to condom use was ridiculous and women should have the right to choose on abortion.
Many young women in Brazil, the world’s largest Roman Catholic country, where debate over sexual issues has […]
The new owners of a pharmacy in Montana have decided to not sell birth control drugs in their store. The decision has angered abortion advocates and brings up questions about whether pharmacies and pharmacists should have the ability to opt out of dispensing drugs that may cause abortions or assisted suicides.
Snyder Pharmacy has been a […]
Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski (D) signed a bill on Wednesday that will strengthen protections for women’s reproductive health. The new law, effective on January 1, 2008 requires private health insurers to cover birth control prescriptions and also requires hospitals to provide sexual assault survivors with emergency contraceptives.
The bill was introduced to the Oregon legislature in […]