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    Roughly 40% of women surveyed by the Guttmacher Institute said they changed their plans on when to have children, or how many to have.
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    Survey: Women Are Rethinking Having Kids As They Face Pandemic Challenges

    Jun 24, 2020
    A survey from the Guttmacher Institute finds that roughly one-third of women say they plan to delay having children, or have fewer, even as they are experiencing difficulty obtaining contraception.
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    Shots - Health News
    Doctors should start screening all women and girls for anxiety, according a prominent women's health group.
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    All Women Should Be Screened For Anxiety Disorders, Health Group Says

    Jun 11, 2020
    Women suffer from anxiety at nearly twice the rate of men, and a coalition of women's health groups says all teenage girls and women should be screened.
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    National
    Birth control pills in 1976 in New York. The birth control pill was approved by the FDA 60 years ago this week.
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    How The Approval Of The Birth Control Pill 60 Years Ago Helped Change Lives

    May 09, 2020
    Before the pill was approved by the FDA on May 9, 1960, there were few contraceptive options available to young women. It revolutionized family planning and the sex lives of millions of Americans.
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    Anti-Abortion Rights Groups Ask HHS To Urge End To Abortion During Pandemic

    Mar 24, 2020
    Groups opposed to abortion rights have signed a letter asking federal health officials to urge abortion providers to "cease operations" in an effort to preserve medical equipment.
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    World
    Unwed pregnant women in China face a legal gray zone where they are unable to access public services for themselves and their children.
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    In China, Kids Of Unwed Mothers May Be Barred From Public Health Care, Education

    Nov 06, 2019
    Being a mom without a husband leaves many women in a legal gray zone where they are unable to access medical and other public services for themselves and their children. Some women are even fined.
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    National
    A group of anti-abortion rights protesters hold signs during a rally outside a Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Center in St Louis, Mo., in June.
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    Planned Parenthood To Open Large New Facility In Illinois Near Missouri Border

    Oct 02, 2019
    The site of the 18,000 square foot clinic is intended to serve women from Missouri, where access to abortions has become more restrictive.
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    Shots - Health News
    Unlike Planned Parenthood which pulled out of Title X family planning funding, many clinics still take the funding and must comply with new rules on discussing abortion. Doctors worry it will affect their relationships with patients.
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    Doctors Say Federal Rules On Discussing Abortions Inhibit Relationships With Patients

    Sep 09, 2019
    Many clinics that provide family planning services still rely on Title X funding. Their doctors worry about what they can say to patients about abortion under new rules.
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    Shots - Health News
    In <em>The Vagina Bible</em>, gynecologist Jen Gunter dispels myths about the female body.
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    'Vagina Bible' Tackles Health And Politics In A Guide To Female Physiology

    Aug 27, 2019
    Frustrated with online marketing sites that peddle needless "health aids" and fears, gynecologist and columnist Jen Gunter aims to dispel myths about the female body and restore power to patients.
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    Unless a federal court intervenes, Planned Parenthood says it will formally withdraw from the nation's family planning program for low-income people.
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    Planned Parenthood To Withdraw From Title X, Unless Court Intervenes

    Aug 14, 2019
    Planned Parenthood officials asked for a stay against new Trump administration rules that forbid organizations receiving Title X funds to provide or refer patients for abortion.
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    Supporters of Planned Parenthood demonstrated at New York's City Hall against the Trump administration's Title X rule change in February. Planned Parenthood now says it clinics nationwide will stop using federal Title X family planning funds.
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    Planned Parenthood Officials Say They've Halted Use Of Title X Family Planning Funds

    Jul 17, 2019
    The move follows an announcement this week by the Trump administration that it will enforce new rules forbidding groups that receive the funds from counseling patients about abortion.
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    Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks at a Feb. 25 news conference in Seattle announcing a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's Title X "gag rule."
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    Federal Judge Blocks Trump Changes To Reproductive Health Program

    Apr 25, 2019
    New regulations that would have taken effect on May 3 would deny federal funds for low-income patients to clinics that make abortion referrals. The Title X rules are on hold while lawsuits proceed.
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    Shots - Health News
    Demonstrators in favor of and against abortion rights made their beliefs known during a January 2018 protest in Washington, D.C.
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    Where U.S. Battles Over Abortion Will Play Out In 2019

    Jan 08, 2019
    Expect more aggressive regulatory action from the Trump administration while skirmishes continue in Congress and statehouses across the U.S. Many of these policies will ultimately land in court.
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    Health
    Dr. Leana Wen, health commissioner for the Baltimore City Health Department, talks about the effectiveness of contraception for public school students in 2015. Wen will be the new head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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    Planned Parenthood Chooses Baltimore's Health Commissioner As Its Next President

    Sep 12, 2018
    Leana Wen was an ER physician before she became the city's health commissioner. In her new role, she will be the first doctor in nearly 50 years to lead Planned Parenthood.
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    Demonstrators against decriminalizing abortion celebrate outside the national Congress building in Buenos Aires on Thursday.
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    For Abortion Activists In Argentina, A Campaign Waged Online Faces A Disconnect

    Aug 10, 2018
    This week, Argentina's Senate rejected a bill to legalize abortion. The decision came as a letdown for feminist organizations that conducted their battle largely on social media.
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    Shots - Health News
    Staff members hold an informal meeting before opening the STD free clinic in February in Portland, Maine. The CDC recorded more than 2 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis nationally in 2016 — the highest number of reported cases yet, off
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    Trump's Redirection Of Family Planning Funds Could Undercut STD Fight

    Jun 12, 2018
    Some public health officials fear Trump's move to change how the Title X family planning funding is handled may hurt the effort to cut the record number of sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S.
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    National
    President Trump shakes hands with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar  after he is sworn in by Vice President Pence on Jan. 29. Major reproductive health organizations are voicing concerns about the Trump administration's new approach to federa
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    Planned Parenthood Sues To Block Trump's 'Radical Shift' In Family Planning Program

    May 02, 2018
    The Trump administration's proposed changes to the federal Title X program would put the health of millions of low-income patients at risk, according to Planned Parenthood.
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    Goats and Soda
    Melvine Ouyo is a reproductive health nurse at Family Health Options Kenya. She visited Washington, D.C., to discuss how the clinic has lost funding because it would not agree to the terms of President Trump's executive order banning U.S. aid to any heal
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    Kenyan Clinic Rejects Trump Abortion Policy, Loses $2 Million In U.S. Aid

    May 02, 2018
    The president has banned U.S. aid to any health organization in another country that performs or promotes abortion. Kenya's oldest provider of reproductive health services has already lost funding.
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    National

    Young People More Likely To Shift Toward Supporting Abortion Rights, Poll Finds

    Apr 16, 2018
    The generational divide uncovered by a survey from the Public Religion Research Institute may be linked to changing attitudes about religion.
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    The Two-Way

    After Years In the Trenches, Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards Will Step Down

    Jan 26, 2018
    Since taking over as president of Planned Parenthood in 2006, Cecile Richards has led the organization through numerous political fights. Those conflicts have intensified under President Trump.
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    National
    Annette Lancaster, 40, used to manage a Planned Parenthood health center in Chapel Hill, N.C. She says the work made her feel "dark and morbid."
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    The Anti-Abortion Group That's Urging Clinic Workers to Quit Their Jobs

    Jan 11, 2018
    The nonprofit organization And Then They Were None offers financial assistance, job search help, and spiritual and emotional support to workers who leave jobs at clinics that provide abortions.
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    Goats and Soda
    In India, a traditional midwife attempts to induce abortion by massaging herbs and oil on a woman's belly.
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    Nearly Half of All Abortions Unsafe In Developing Countries

    Oct 03, 2017
    Gilda Sedgh, the author of a new study on global abortion, explains the difference between safe and unsafe abortions, and what women in low-income countries will need to access safe procedures.
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    Shots - Health News
    A male mouse with a litter of mixed pups. Green pups were born from the bioprosthetic ovary.
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    Scientists One Step Closer To 3-D-Printed Ovaries To Treat Infertility

    May 20, 2017
    Researchers printed gelatin scaffolds into which they placed ovarian tissue, and then implanted the new organs in mice. Three out of seven female mice produced healthy offspring using the technology.
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    Shots - Health News
    EVATAR is a book-size lab system that can replicate a woman's reproductive cycle. Each compartment contains living tissue from a different part of the reproductive tract. The blue fluid pumps through each compartment, chemically connecting the various ti
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    Device Mimicking Female Reproductive Cycle Could Aid Research

    Mar 28, 2017
    Scientists have assembled a lab system from living tissue that can replicate a woman's 28-day hormonal cycle. The goal is to use the system to find new ways to treat a host of women's health problems.
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    Shots - Health News
    Dr. Paul Turek, a urologist with clinics in San Francisco and Beverly Hills, says one group of friends who got vasectomies together, during the NCAA spring basketball tournament, seemed to recover more quickly than usual, and require fewer pain pills.
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    March Madness Vasectomies Encourage Guys To Take One For The Team

    Mar 24, 2017
    Some urologists use March Madness as an opportunity to market vasectomy services, offering men the excuse to sit on the sofa for three days to watch college basketball while they recover.
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    Newscast headlines

    Nevada Lawmaker Seeks Safety Net For Reproductive Services

    Mar 09, 2017

    CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Activists and physicians describe a bleak scenario for reproductive health clinics in Nevada should Republicans in the federal government move forward with plans to cut funds for "family planning" services.

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