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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: morning after pill

morning after pill stories: 6 news summaries

(Newser) - Italy has legalized the abortion drug RU-486, drawing the ire of the Vatican, which threatened to excommunicate doctors who prescribe the medication and women who take it. A church official said using the pill is "a sin in a moral and juridical sense," but a politician who is... More »

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abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Italy • Vatican • morning after pill • mifepristone • abortion pill • Roman Catholic Church • abortion pills • RU-486

(AP) - The Food and Drug Administration will allow 17-year-olds to get the "morning-after" birth control pill without a doctor's prescription. The agency said today it would not appeal a federal judge's recent order overturning restrictions imposed during the Bush administration. The judge had ruled that Bush appointees let politics, not... More »

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Bush administration • abortion • FDA • birth control • Plan B • teen pregnancy • morning after pill • abortion pill

(Newser) - A federal judge today ordered the Food and Drug Administration to immediately relax age restrictions on the morning-after contraception pill, and reconsider whether there should be any restrictions at all, the Washington Post reports. Since 2005, the pill has been available without a prescription only to women over 18; within... More »

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Bush administration • FDA • federal courts • prescription drugs • federal judges • teen pregnancy • morning after pill • restrictions

Vatican Condemns Cloning, Morning-After Pill

Get out of here with your fancy science, church says

Dec 12, 08 8:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Embryos deserve “the dignity proper to a person,” the Vatican declared today in an uncompromising doctrinal declaration on reproductive science, its first in more than 20-years. The long-awaited document condemns everything from embryonic stem-cell research to human cloning to the morning-after pill, which falls “within the sin... More »

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stem cell research • abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Vatican • cloning • morning after pill • artificial insemination

'Conscience' Rule Threatens to Reignite Abortion Battle

Bush's last-minute new rule for medical workers sparks controversy

Dec 2, 08 8:29 AM CST
(Newser) - An expanded "right of conscience" rule for medical workers planned by the Bush administration could hand Barack Obama a major battle over medical ethics, the Los Angeles Times reports. Doctors and nurses can already legally refuse to perform abortions, but the new rule would allow any health care worker... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • abortion • contraception • doctor • Michael O. Leavitt • medical care • morning after pill • George W. Bush • President Obama

Brazil Govt. Targets Carnival Debauchery

Sex-crazed partygoers get free condoms, morning-after pills

Jan 29, 08 11:35 AM CST
(Newser) - As Brazil prepares to indulge in the 5-day party known as Carnival, the president is spearheading a campaign to get samba-crazed revelers to practice safe sex and drink in moderation. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told Brazilians to have fun in his weekly radio address, AFP reports, but reminded them... More »

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contraception • AIDS • Catholic Church • Brazil • condom • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • safe sex • samba • Carnival • morning after pill • Recife

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