LOGAN — A woman convicted of trespassing for going to a Logan transit station after being banned for telling a fellow bus rider to use birth control said she’ll do her court-ordered community service at Planned Parenthood.
In a nonjury trial, Logan Municipal Justice Court Judge Cheryl Russell rejected Laura Stevens’ argument that she was exercising […]
“This is about a country which is achieving international success across the entire range of artistic and cultural endeavour. I don’t believe it. Does anyone in Scotland believe it?” he asked.
The BBC was dubbed “hideously White City” for its west-London bias, while ITV was attacked for steadily reducing its commitment to regional television. Channel 4’s […]
When the problem is simple, the solution usually is simple too. If birds multiply excessively, they need to be given contraceptives.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood will embark on an experimental programme of birth control pills for pigeons. The OvoControl P preparation will be slipped into pigeon food. […]
But they have been lobbed in the course of a different estrangement: the standoff between the Bush administration and the nation’s scientific community.
The relationship, which has been troubled since the dawn of the Bush presidency, hit a new low last month when Richard Carmona, surgeon general from 2002 to 2006, lashed out at his former […]
Drug companies are telling colleges the discounts are done.
For years, college students have been able to buy birth control very inexpensively.
The drug companies offered the deeply discounted contraceptives to college health services.
Colleges and universities tended to tack on a few bucks and sell them to students.
But now, due to federal cutbacks, cheap birth control is […]
Menstruation became optional this month when Lybrel, the first FDA-approved birth control pill to end monthly bleeding, began to appear on pharmacy shelves.
Although continuous contraception is nothing new, the prescription pill, if taken 365 days a year, abolishes the monthly period. In doing so, it has created a quiet moral and medical debate on the […]
Intervention” is the key term for understanding the society in which we live – increasing oversight and intervention by the state into the most basic and formative aspects of the lives of its citizens. These interventions express themselves in policies, institutions and ideology that define the modern era.
Critical aspects of state intervention affect the integrity […]
If I stay on the Pill until I conceive will it take longer to get pregnant?
A: Most probably not. A European study on oral contraceptives called the EURAS-OC study (European Active Surveillance Study on Oral Contraceptives) prospectively followed more than 2,000 women on the Pill who stopped taking it to try to conceive. The women […]
BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) — China’s birth control policy was again in the spotlight with World Population Day this week, but after almost 30 years, questions should be asked about fairness of its enforcement.
The State Population and Family Planning Commission (SPFPC) on Tuesday reiterated the government’s determination to maintain the birth […]
In the July 3 article “Abortions up in ‘06, especially among teens,” Sarah Stoesz, president of Planned Parenthood’s Minnesota chapter, states, “The allegation that promoting birth control promotes abortion is ludicrous.” I disagree.
Published: July 09, 2007
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