Source: Lucy Madison / CBS News Amid ongoing controversy surrounding Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s comments about pregnancies resulting from rape, the Romney campaign said today it will stand by the candidate, even while Mitt Romney “disagrees” with him regarding abortion policy. Mourdock, a Tea Party-backed candidate who beat longtime moderate Sen. Richard Lugar [...]
Source: Chis Tomlinson / The Huffington Post AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals judge stepped into the fight over the Texas Women’s Health Program on Tuesday, saying he wanted to hear arguments on whether the state should be prevented from enforcing a law that bans Planned Parenthood from participating in the program. Less than 24 hours [...]
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Source: MSNBC A federal judge on Monday blocked a Texas rule that would have excluded Planned Parenthood from participating in the state’s women’s health program. In a win for Planned Parenthood, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel ruled Monday there was sufficient evidence the state rule [...]
Source: Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday that it will cut off all Medicaid funding for family planning to the state of Texas, following Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) decision to implement a new law that excludes Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid Women’s Health Program. Cindy Mann, [...]
Source: MSNBC RICHMOND, Va. – Shortly after Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell announced his opposition a Republican bill requiring vaginal probes of women seeking abortions, the state House on Wednesday approved a substitute version dropping that condition. The House of Delegates voted 65-32 for the watered-down version. Under the substitute, women would still be required to [...]
Last week, Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, a leading breast cancer charity, announced it would no longer provide funding to Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood received nearly $700,000 from Komen last year, according to the Associated Press, and much of that is used to provide mammograms for women in underserved neighborhoods. Komen said their [...]
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Source: Susanna Kim / ABC News Amy Zvovushe, a senior program manager with a marketing company in Connecticut, alleges her employer asked her to resign instead of providing leave after learning she was pregnant, a claim of discrimination that too many women in the U.S. are forced to endure, advocates [...]
Source: CNN Faced with a deluge of opposition that included pressure from lawmakers and internal dissent, one of America’s leading breast cancer advocacy groups on Friday reversed itself on a decision that would have cut off funding to some Planned Parenthood projects. “We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast [...]
Source: Laura Bassett and Lisa Belkin / The Huffington Post Dr. Kathy Plesser, a Manhattan radiologist on the medical advisory board of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s New York chapter, said she plans to resign from her position unless Komen reverses its decision to pull grant money from Planned Parenthood. “I’m a physician and [...]
Drug maker Pfizer recalls one million birth control packs for error that could cause unintended pregnancy.
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