On Wednesday, the Institute of Medicine recommended that insurers cover, at no cost, expanded preventive care for women. In its report to the Department of Health and Human Services, the IOM — an independent, nonprofit health organization that lawmakers rely upon for insight on health care — recommended that “the full range” of approved contraceptive [...]
Posts Tagged ‘family planning’
Government Panel Recommends Expanding Birth Control Access
Posted in The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women and Civil Rights, Women's Health, tagged birth control, contraceptive, domestic violence, family planning, Health and Human Services, health insurance, HHS, HIV, HPV, IOM, preventive-care, sexually transmitted infections on July 21, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Uncovered
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, tagged 2008 election, family planning, health, Health and Human Services, health insurance, healthcare, reproductive health on September 10, 2008, | 2 Comments »
Art used in messaging is nothing new, but we’re used to seeing what I call “elevator art” — backgrounds in TV commercials, graphics in magazine ads — even the web has more than its share. So when I saw this on the news the other day, it caught my attention, especially amid the noise of [...]
An Assault on Women’s Health
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, tagged birth control, contraception, family planning, Health and Human Services, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, reproductive health, reproductive rights, women's healthcare on July 22, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
These are the words used by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to describe draft regulations by the Bush administration that would severely limit women’s access to reproductive health and family planning services, including some of the most common forms of birth control. As reported in the New York Times, the possible proposed regulations would expand the [...]

