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Cops Bust Rubber Robbers Accused of Stealing 700,000 Condoms
By not in system - AOL NewsKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian police say they have recovered about 700,000 condoms that were stolen while being shipped to Japan two months ago. Mohamad Shukri Dahlan, police chief of Malaysia's northern Perak state, says authorities found hundreds of boxes of condoms at a warehouse and a home last week. Police arrested six men who allegedly were storing the condoms in hope of eventually selling them. Getty Images Malaysian police have recovered about 700,000 condoms recently stolen while being shipped to Japan. The arrested suspects face 10 years in jail if convicted in the ...
The Modest Proposal: You Shouldn't Need a Prescription for the Pill
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyKelly Branch, president of Ibis Reproductive Health, a nonprofit research organization, took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times Monday to make the case for expanding access to birth control pills. It's been 50 year years since the Food and Drug Administration approved the pill, but it still isn't available as an over-the-counter medication. Branch points out: The pill meets F.D.A. criteria for over-the-counter medications. Women don't need a doctor to tell them whether they need the pill - they know when they are sexually active and want to avoid pregnancy. Pill instructions are easy to ...
Teen Sex in America: Is No Change Good or Bad?
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyAbstinence-based sex education remained front and center as a tool of public policy through the past decade, with a particular emphasis on convincing unmarried teenagers to forgo having sex. And that makes the results of a survey recently released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention particularly interesting. The report is titled "Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, National Survey of Family Growth 2006-2008." It's a follow-up to a series of similar surveys, the last taken in 2002. The focus is on males and females ages ...
Another Contraceptive Pill, Another Abortion Debate
By Bonnie Erbé - Politics DailyThe Food and Drug Administration's Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health has voted 11-0 that ulipristal acetate is effective and safe for use as an emergency contraceptive. The new drug from HRA Pharma, called Ella, is one step up from the so-called Plan B in that it prevents pregnancy for up to 120 hours after unprotected sex. Plan B is made of Levonorgestrel, which is a progesterone-like hormone compound. It can prevent pregnancy up to 72 hours after intercourse and it's about 85 percent effective. Ella works up to 120 hours, or five days. It contains ulipristal acetate, which works to ...
On Children: Conceiving, Raising and Letting Go
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyA Food and Drug Administration panel approved a new post-coitus pregnancy-prevention medication Thursday that gives women as long as five days after sex to undo any ill-considered family-planning consequences. For all our confetti-throwing to celebrate the 50-year birthday of birth control pills recently, it strikes me that the new protocol called "Ella" will be a far less rigid and less physically intrusive way for a woman to avoid pregnancy. I do not, however, know how the new science of de-ova-ing one's body compares in impact to the half-century-old method of a 3-weeks-a-month ...
French-British Study: Stigma of Obesity Affects Sex
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsNICE, France (June 17) -- Obese women have less sex than women of normal weight, but they also have more unplanned pregnancies because they often don't ask for contraceptives or use the pill, according to a new study. Obese men have fewer sexual partners than men of normal weight, the study also says, but they run a higher chance of contracting sexually transmitted diseases and are more prone to erectile dysfunction. The study by French and British researchers, published this week in the British Medical Journal, is the first to investigate the impact of obesity on sexual health. STF / AFP ...
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 ...
Sarah Palin Never Told Bristol About the 'Birds and the Bees'
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyAmong the more compelling bits of background information teen mom Bristol Palin reveals about her famous family in the latest issue of Harper's Bazaar is the fact neither of her parents, Todd and Sarah Palin, ever gave her the "sex talk." "It's not like we all sat down and were like, 'Alright, here's the birds and the bees,'" Palin told the magazine. "Truly, my parents just assumed that I wasn't doing anything. And it was a shock for us all." Bristol's pregnancy by then-boyfriend Levi Johnston caused a sensation on the presidential campaign trail back in 2008, especially since she was only ...
A Birth Control Pill for Men? In Your Dreams
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyNow that the balloons have come down from 50th-birthday celebrations of the Pill, I want to delicately point out the elephant in the room on biological destiny: Women remain the only ones in charge of preventing pregnancy. For those of us who grew up during the post-Pill era, the idea of woman's biological imperative to control her own fertility – the dream of feminists from Margaret Sanger, who Jamie Stiehm so beautifully eulogized, to Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan – surpassed privilege, and became a right before we were born. Whether we opted to take the Pill or not, the ...
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. ...
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