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FDA Makes It Official: BPA Can’t Be Used in Baby Bottles and Cups
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that baby bottles and childrenu2019s drinking cups could no longer contain bisphenol A, or BPA, an estrogen-mimicking industrial chemical used in some …
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It’s a Great Day to Act to Cut the Pentagon Budget
Conventional wisdom is that the automatic cuts in the Budget Control Act won't happen; at the end of the day, they will be replaced by a package of revenue …
Election Countdown 2012: One Person Is Confirmed Dead After an Oil and Natural Gas Well Explosion in Ohio, and More
These [satellite] images appear to support the rumored allegations [that] drillers and frackers may have been driving tanker trucks offroad, opening the valve on the tank while driving, and …
The Election Reflects America’s Conservative Era
This year's presidential campaign is taking place within an extremely conservative era in American political history that will substantially influence the domestic and foreign priorities of the next administration, …
Will Your State Refuse to Provide Medicaid Coverage to Needy Adults?
It is precisely the states that could most benefit from the increased coverage under ACA's Medicaid expansion provision that seem least willing to participate in the plan.
Why the Reproductive Rights Movement Must Abandon the Term “Abortion“
Many conservative Republicans, as well as the official Catholic Church, believe the metaphor that Fertilized Eggs Are People and that preventing such egg-people from being implanted in the womb …
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The GOP’s Redonkulous Alternative to the Affordable Care Act
The U.S. Supreme Courtu2019s affirmation of the Affordable Care Act predictably brought renewed calls from Republicans to restrict medical malpractice litigation. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for instance, …
Will World Population Day Open the Gates to Coercive Contraception?
But many reproductive health and human rights activists worry that the summit represents a serious backslide to the bad old days of population control when contraception was deployed as …
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Americans for Prosperity Rally Calls for “Nullifying” Health Care Law (With Help From ALEC)
The evening after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Wisconsin chapter of the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity held a "Hands Off My …
How Scalia Distorts the Framers
In rejecting the Commerce Clause as the constitutional foundation for the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Courtu2019s right-wing justices distorted Americau2019s founding narrative, including one made-up view attributed to …