"birth-order" Articles & Blogs:
Support the Birth Control Matters Campaign For Contraception With No Co-Pays
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Birth Control Matters is an effort to make birth control available with no copays so that all women can use the method that works best for them and to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies.
Affordable prescription birth control is an essential par...[Read on] |
Switched at Birth, Women Finally Meet
| DeeAnn Angell Shafer and Kay Rene Reed Qualls, both 56, learned this year they were switched at birthPost | Today 2:10 pm
DeeAnn Angell Shafer and Kay Rene Reed Qualls had never met, but their lives become entangled earlier this year when, 56 years afte...[Read on] |
Birth Order & Career Choice: Are They Connected?
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This article is from bizMe online magazine by Suzanne Barstow. Check bizMe for your monthly dose of career advice.
I’m a new parent. I tell you this not just as a warning-those in the throws of babydom deserve special dispensation, so please excuse a...[Read on] |
It's Not Over: U.S. Women Still Die Giving Birth
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(WOMENSENEWS)--When I was a kid, my family and I used to make a parlor game out of the question, "What would life have been like if we had lived a century ago?"
It always made for an interesting game, so long as we skipped over the fact that mo...[Read on] |
Nearly half of U.S. pregnancies are unintended
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Did you know that 49% of pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended? I sure didn't.
Thankfully, people like Krystale Littlejohn and Professor Paula England of Stanford University's Sociology Department - are looking into how we can change that statistic:
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The church may oppose the pill, but one Catholic bank in Germany was profiting off it
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Talk about hypocrisy. A Catholic bank in Germany was revealed by newspaper reporting to have invested money in the stock of American birth control maker Wyeth, despite the Roman Catholic Church's condemnation of birth control.
Der Spiegel newspaper dis...[Read on] |
VA teen suspended for two weeks because of birth-control pill
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Because of a zero tolerance drug policy at her Fairfax County, Virginia public school, one teen was given a two week suspension when she was caught taking her birth control pill during lunch. From the Washington Post:
School officials say they can't take...[Read on] |
Vatican: Washing Machine More Liberating Than Birth Control
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The Vatican knows its stance on women’s liberationVatican | Today 9:55 am
The Vatican is known for asking big questions, and made no exception for this weekend’s International Women’s Day, when it asked: "What in the 20th century ...[Read on] |
The Pill at 50: A Matter of Economic Health, Too
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by Val Vilott, Outreach Associate,National Women's Law Center
The women’s rights movement has much to celebrate this year—it’s the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill, as we might have mentioned before. On the pill’s golden anniversary, we...[Read on] |
Why is there no male birth control on the market yet?
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Apparently because scientists think men won't take it. According to an article in Science Progress, outdated ideas of who's responsibility birth control and contraception is, has put the burden on women's shoulders.
Via Broadsheet.
Let's pretend you ...[Read on] |
Some good news about women and health care (for a change)
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The Women's Health Amendment was passed by the Senate yesterday with a vote of 61-39. Woot!
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) proposed this amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which will require all health care plans to cover women's...[Read on] |
Teen pregnancies on the rise for the first time in over a decade
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Via The Economist, some data about teenage pregnancies in the US:
On one point, however, experts agree: when it comes to teenage births, the United States is backsliding. Between 1991 and 2005 the teenage birth rate declined by 34%, according to the Nati...[Read on] |
Recession dramatically changing women's childbearing decisions
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I can't afford a child, I'm going on the pill! Oh snap, I can't afford that either...
The Guttmacher Institute released a new study yesterday revealing that the economic recession has not only caused women to be less prone to want to have children, but ...[Read on] |
Highly religious states have top teen birth rates
| A new study shows that states that skew towards more conservative religious beliefs tend to have higher rates of teenage girls giving birth. (Shocking, I know.)
Researcher Joseph Strayhorn of Drexel University College of Medicine and University of Pitts...[Read on] |
Women in Prison- Healthcare and Childbirth
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Pop culture observers have seen the semi-popular movie Changeling featuring world mega-star Angelina Jolie and directed by world mega-icon Clint Eastwood. The plot of the film chronicles the true life story of a woman who’s son was kidnapped and replac...[Read on] |
Childbirth a barrier? Not when five of six top NYC Marathon winners are moms
| By Laura Pappano
It has become a provocative theme: Marathons and motherhood. Five of the top six women to cross the finish line in the 2009 ING New York City Marathon are moms.
1. Winner Derartu Tulu, 37, of Ethiopia – an two time Olympic gold ...[Read on] |
17-Year-Olds Can Now Buy Plan B at the Pharmacy
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A judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to allow the
morning-after pill to be sold at pharmacies without prescriptions to girls 17 and olderNew Rules for Plan B | Today 12:30 pm
A judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to allow ...[Read on] |
Jane Campion returns to Cannes
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Jane Campion is one of the few female directors who commands attention. She won the Palme d’Or back in 1993 for The Piano and returns to Cannes as one of three women out of 17 in competition for the big prize again.
Her new film Bright Star starring ...[Read on] |
Going Backwards
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It’s beginning to dawn on me that I have an unhealthy habit of picking up a series… out of order. I know, I know, it’s slightly blasphemous in some circles but I can’t help it. I see cool font on a spine or shiney cover with an intriguing plot and...[Read on] |
Sisters Unite! Executive Order creates White House Council on Women and Girls…
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President Barack Obama signed an executive order today creating a White House Council for Women and Girls to focus the federal government’s efforts on advancing the interests of a group that has long done less well than men by a number of measures.
Oba...[Read on] |
117 Foot Locker stores will hang up their laces
| Foot Locker
Inc. has recently announced that they will close 117 stores in the coming
weeks. The athletic retailer and sneaker giant made the move in order to strengthen brand positioning, re-organize and focus more on the female consumer.
The Company
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Liberia Innovates to Save Lives of New Moms
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MONROVIA, Liberia (WOMENSENEWS)--A small group of reporters huddled around Roseline Broh, a nurse midwife supervisor, at the entrance to the labor ward at Redemption Hospital here. The facility provides free services and some of its 200 beds hold ...[Read on] |
Christine Lahti on Law & Order SVU
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I have been watching Law & Order SVU since its inception. Since Jay Leno began screwing up TV as we know it SVU has suffered since it is now on at 9pm on Wednesdays up against many strong shows. I’ve been tivoing it when it repeats on Saturday night...[Read on] |
Environmentalist Alexandra Cousteau Discusses the Oil Spill
| Alexandra Cousteau. With the Gulf oil spill now in its 56th day, VF Daily discussed the disaster’s ramifications with someone who has a deep connection to the health of our oceans: Alexandra Cousteau, the 34-year-old granddaughter of underwater pioneer ...[Read on] |
Mother's Day Interview - Gold Medalist Mary Wineberg
| Last week I talked to Mary Wineberg, lead-off leg of the 2008 Olympic gold medal-winning 4x400m relay team. In 2009, she and her husband had their first child, Brooklyn Marie, who is now 9 months old. Mary is already back in shape and setting “post-...[Read on] |
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