Capital Critiques

The Obama Administration’s misstep in overturning the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recommendation on Plan B emergency contraception caught everyone off guard, [...]

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A partisan showdown over women’s health and rights on Wednesday, October 5 focused on UNFPA during a committee mark up of Rep. [...]

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After the House made another assault on  women and young people’s health and rights in July, the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday stepped [...]

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Today’s release of guidelines for health services that need to be covered in health insurance plans at no additional cost took a [...]

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In the continuing assault on women’s health and rights, today the House of Representatives included significant cuts to reproductive health services, including [...]

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In the wake of new House attempts to reinstate the Global Gag Rule, Rep. Nita Lowey and more than 103 other Members [...]

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The never ending political ping pong of whether the United States imposes a global gag rule on health care providers including voluntary [...]

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A new Institute of Medicine report that will be used to guide the final decisions on what no-cost, preventive health care services [...]

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Once again stepping forward to try and fully remove ideology from sexuality education programs, Senator Frank Lautenberg and Representative Barbara Lee have [...]

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