Pushing the Boundaries for Women’s Health: Why Over-the-Counter Access for the Pill Makes Sense… Now |
| By: RH Reality Check Wednesday August 4, 2010 6:56 am |
The case is strong for over-the-counter access to the pill. Birth control pills are a safe, effective medication used by over 10 million women in the United States alone, and the pill has 50 years of global data backing it up. There is no “one good time” to do this, so women’s advocates need to take the initiative and make this happen.
Written by Kirsten Moore and Aimee Thorne-Thomsen for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.
Which Idiot Decided Not to Regulate Credit Default Swaps? |
| By: selise Monday December 1, 2008 6:03 pm |
This is part 1 and 2 of a work in progress which I hope will be a series of posts on the legislative history of the decisions taken to deregulate our financial markets and which have contributed to the current economic crisis.
For the details and reference links behind these summary posts, organized as a timeline, see my Financial Regulation Timeline page (where these summaries are x-posted).
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Just Say Now |
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Prop 8 Trial |
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