Topic: Barack Obama

Democratic US lawmakers worry President Barack Obama may bow to Catholic groups fighting new rules to expand access to birth control for millions of women, congressional aides confirmed Wednesday.US media have reported that the lawmakers were pressing Obama to hold the line ...

Birth control pills, breast-feeding equipment and HIV testing will be covered under US health plans at no cost to women beginning next year, but a religious exemption has some advocates fuming.The US government on Monday announced the sweeping changes that should save ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. health department on Monday issued a plan to provide women with free preventive health services, including birth control, under the nation's healthcare overhaul, but gave religious institutions the flexibility to opt out.The guidelines, which the Health and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Institute of Medicine recommended eight preventive health services, including birth control, be covered for women at no cost under the country's healthcare overhaul.The IOM report, commissioned by President Barack Obama's administration, recommended that all U.S.-approved birth control ...

Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.That could start a shift toward more reliable — and expensive — forms of birth ...

Is the pill preventive medicine? Health overhaul may make birth control available for freeFifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.That could ...

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Fresh off the press at CNN is the Oregon University study stating that each new child that comes to earth will add a tremendous amount of greenhouse gasses to the already highly-polluted air. They stated that large families are detrimental to the ...

The Obama administration is giving ordinary people a chance to become a part of the change the campaign promised. Americans for UNFPA are promoting a cause we can definitely get behind: With your help, it could be one of the 10 winning ...

Now that 2010 is officially here, I thought it would be enlightening to take a look back over the last decade to see what happened in the world of contraception. And, the election of President Obama was a victory for women's reproductive ...