BIRTH CONTROL
RED RIVER ORTHODOX: ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY IN THE RED RIVER VALLEY AND NORTH DAKOTA Religious Freedom Debates Across America and North Dakota
As most (if not all) readers of this blog know, North Dakotans will soon have an opportunity to vote on Measure 3, which seeks to pattern North Dakotan religious freedom protection after that which al...
Posted on 5/31/12 at 11:12 AM
Justice Dept to appeal morning-after case 
The Justice Department is appealing a judge's decision lifting all age limits on the Plan B morning-after birth control pill and a cheaper generic.
By Josh Lederman and Lauran Neergaard , May 01, 2013
Judge making morning-after pill available to all
In a scathing rebuke accusing the Obama administration of letting election-year politics trump science, a federal judge ruled Friday that women of any age should be able to buy emergency contraception without a doctor's prescription.
By Larry Neumeister and Lauran Neergaard , April 05, 2013
More U.S. Women use ‘morning after’ pill
More U.S. women are taking the “morning-after” pill, but generally just once, according to the government’s first report on how the emergency contraception drug has been used since regulators eased access to it in 2006.
By Susan Heavey , February 25, 2013
RYAN BAKKEN: Pill for men hard to swallow
A contraceptive pill for males is on the horizon. This news likely will be cheered wildly by women, who overwhelmingly have carried the birth control burden over the years. Not so fast, ladies.
By Ryan Bakken , August 21, 2012
Sam O’Donnell, Grand Forks, letter: Being kept on pedestal limits women’s options
Why does being created by God in this way mean women lack the right to use birth control? I don’t buy it.
By Sam O’Donnell , March 17, 2012
Nancy Cohen, Los Angeles, column: Blame it on the pill
Conflicts over gay marriage, transvaginal ultrasounds, Planned Parenthood funding and insurance coverage for birth control are not isolated events.
Rather, they are the latest expression of a 40-year-old shadow movement that has played an important role in fueling America’s political dysfunction.
By Nancy Cohen , March 07, 2012
Obama recasts birth control debate on own terms
President Barack Obama is casting the contraception controversy as an issue of women's rights, not religious freedom, seizing on what backers see as a political gift from Rush Limbaugh to firm up support from women and young voters, groups essential to his re-election hopes.
By Julie Pace , March 03, 2012
Senate defeats Republican-led bill to reverse birth control rule
The measure sponsored by Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, a Republican, was defeated 51-48. The measure, an amendment to a pending transportation bill, would have allowed employers and insurers to opt out of portions of the president's health care law they found morally objectionable. That would have included the law's requirement that insurers cover the costs of birth control.
By Laurie Kellman , March 01, 2012
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