Planned Parenthood
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Health-fitnessWhy is Birth Control A Big Deal Again?Rush Limbaugh calls a Georgetown student a slut for lobbying for contraception. Republican presidential candidates talk about the Pill like it's the Axis of Evil. What is going on here?
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PoliticsWomen Are WatchingToday Planned Parenthood launches a new political action campaign to make women's voices heard in the 2012 elections.
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PoliticsShould Birth Control Be Totally Covered By Insurance?This week the Institute of Medicine recommended that prescription birth control be included as a women's preventative health service which would make it covered without co-pays by new insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act
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PoliticsThe Women Who Voted Against Health Care for WomenWe found out which congresswomen tried to defund Planned Parenthood.
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Career advicePlanned Parenthood's Cecile Richards Speaks OutWhat's it like running an organization in the crosshairs of politicians, rabid opposition, and even the Supreme Court? For Cecile Richards, 53, the stately president of Planned Parenthood, it's business as usual.
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Sex loveWorld AIDS Day: Why You Should Be Tested for HIVShockingly, only 45 percent of Americans have been tested for the disease.
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Features4 Things You Should Know About Expired Condoms
Condom horror story! An expired rubber causes quite an uncomfortable situation over in this neck of the woods ... so I contact Planned Parenthood to get the lo-down on obsolete rubbers. (What are your condom horror stories?)
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PoliticsThe Last Clinic StandingOn most Monday mornings, Dr. Miriam McCreary wakes up before her pet parrot at 5 a.m. and dresses in the dark in order to make a 7:20 flight from her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to her office in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
By Amanda Robb
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