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FDA to Consider Controversial New French 'Morning After' Pill
By Mara Gay - Politics DailyThe FDA may endorse a new pill that says it prevents pregnancy for up to five days after unprotected sex -- two days more than Plan B, the morning-after pill already approved for prescription use in the United States. The pill, sold abroad as ellaOne, is already approved to prevent pregnancy in over 22 countries. In the United States, though, where many pro-life groups consider the morning-after pill to be abortion, ella may face considerable opposition. The Washington Post reports that the controversy may be especially fierce because the new morning-after pill bears a close chemical ...
The Pill's Pioneers: Thank You, Margaret Sanger, Dr. Djerassi, Et Al
By Jamie Stiehm - Politics DailyDear Margaret & Katharine, Dr. Rock & Dr. Djerassi, My generation has a special debt of gratitude to the Pill pioneers. Please accept warm thanks as the least we can do for your splendid efforts. Imagine it addressed in a flowing hand, sealed with wax and a kiss to each of you for making the world safer for love. We are not yet 50, Barack Obama and I, but we belong to the first American generation to come of age with a safe and legal birth control pill. How about that? Historians consider 1961, the year John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, as the cusp of a new post-Baby Boomer cohort. It was ...
The Birth Control Pill's 50th Anniversary, From Three Generations of Women
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyFrances Tobin: Going On the Pill: An Empowering Moment for Young Women When I was 16 years old, I took the advice of my fifth-grade teacher -- whose sex education class taught me all I needed to know about my body, its power and the personal responsibility and authority I had over it -- and asked my doctor for my first prescription of birth control pills. Though I wasn't yet sexually active, the prescription was something I had planned, for quite some time, to discuss with my family doctor, who had been treating me for as long as I could remember. The Pill was -- and still is -- a symbol of ...
How the Pill Liberated My Mother . . . and Me
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyMy father once told me that I was a "mistake." Not a mistake in the sense of: "We wish you'd never been born." But a mistake as in: "We didn't plan on having you." There were probably better ways to have conveyed this message to a child. But my father grew up in mid-century Newark, N.J., the son of an Irish barkeep. He hailed from deep in the heart of Philip Roth territory and they didn't mince words back then. ...
Afghan Mullahs Promote Birth Control to Save Lives
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(March 2) -- Mullahs in Afghanistan are trying new strategies to prevent an ongoing health and economic crisis caused by high fertility and maternal mortality rates: They're passing out birth control pills and distributing condoms. The tactics might come as a surprise, given that women living under the Taliban faced centuries of repression and intolerance, including bans on work, socializing and choice of husband -- often in the name of Islam. But things are changing, and it's that same faith being cited as the motivation behind the bid to improve contraception use and reduce the number of ...
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