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Oklahoma Doctor Refuses to Provide Rape Victim With Emergency Contraception
“An Oklahoma emergency room doctor refused to provide emergency contraception to a 24-year-old female rape victim.”
Why You Can Thank Dan Quayle for Twenty Years of Policy That Keeps Americans in the Dark About Their Food
“More than a million people have asked the FDA for mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food, yet we still don't have it.”
Mainstream Media Miss the Boat, Again, on the Medical Utility of Marijuana
Clinical data published last week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal once again affirmed the safety and efficacy of cannabis as a therapeutic agent - a conclusion that directly …
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What the Right Gets Right About Abortion and the Left Doesn’t Get
The most determined abortion opponents will say or do almost anything in the service of their cause: Distortion, deception, manipulation, intimidation, even murder.
Mental Health Movement Resists Chicago Austerity Measures
Chicago Shuts Down 6 of the Cityu2019s 12 public mental health centers, moves towards privatization of services.
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The Price of Democracy
There is one arena in which the United States is a world-class spender where youu2019d be hard-pressed to find anyone who would argue that we get world-class results for …
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Lobby Responsibly
The big beer brewers often admonish us imbibers of their products to
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Democrat to Offer a “Lifeline” for Single-Payer Healthcare
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) will soon introduce legislation that would allow states to use federal funds theyu2019re receiving through Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs to build a …
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Pennsylvania Seeks to “Reprioritize” Funding Away From Planned Parenthood
Anti-choice politicians in the state of Pennsylvania are attempting to change the way family planning and health care funds for low income women are allocated, putting Planned Parenthood affiliates …
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The Ills of Money-Driven Medicine
A couple of weeks ago, nine medical specialty societies released a list of 45 medical tests and procedures they believed are significantly overused. On the heels of this announcement …