Last week, the New York Times ran "Room for Debate" feature centered on CVS' recent decision to stop selling tobacco products. The question posed was fairly innocuous: "What Unhealthy Products Should CVS Stop Selling?" Three of the four responses were about products that have been proven to pose actual health risks… » 2/18/14 5:15pm 2/18/14 5:15pm

Finally, some good news on efforts to limit women's access to contraception/abortion. Today, Oklahoma District Court Judge Lisa Davis struck down a state law requiring women under the age of 17 to get a prescription for Plan B emergency contraception. » 1/24/14 5:00pm 1/24/14 5:00pm

Plan B One-Step may finally be available over the counter at a pharmacy near you. » 7/18/13 5:45pm 7/18/13 5:45pm

Now that the Obama administration has dropped its appeal to keep age restrictions on sales of emergency contraception, it means the aisles of CVS will witness stampedes of wanton sluts eager to get their hussy hands on whore pills while evil drug companies are maniacally laughing as they roll around in a pile of cash… » 6/12/13 2:20pm 6/12/13 2:20pm

In another confusing twist in the back-and-forth battle of emergency contraception availability, a federal appeals court in New York ordered that some versions of the morning after pill be made available over-the-counter to women of all ages—for now. Which is good news! (For now.) » 6/06/13 2:40pm 6/06/13 2:40pm

It's contraception game time: puritanical fairytale "morals" will go up against the Obamacare birth control mandate over the next few weeks as four different appeals courts decide whether private businesses should be able to object to the policy on the grounds of religious freedom/thinking unchained vaginas are icky.… » 5/22/13 4:00pm 5/22/13 4:00pm

As predicted, the government filed a last-second appeal right before today's noon deadline to delay the sale of the morning-after pill to women of any age without a prescription. We can't wait to hear Judge Edward Korman's reaction. » 5/13/13 2:50pm 5/13/13 2:50pm

Here's a word you should know, if not from listening to the Avenue Q soundtrack until your college roommate threatened to throw the CD out of the window: schadenfreude. It's German, and it means being happy when others meet misfortune. It's a perfect way to describe how I felt when I read that Hobby Lobby, the… » 12/28/12 6:15pm 12/28/12 6:15pm

One year ago today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius decided that Plan B was too dangerous to give to teenagers under 17 without a prescription. » 12/07/12 2:20pm 12/07/12 2:20pm

Emergency contraception, also known as Plan B, cannot cause an abortion. Yet, religious employers still claim that they shouldn't have to cover it for exactly that reason and high-profile Republicans like Mitt Romney (ha, remember him?) refer to emergency contraception as "abortive pills." Even the Associated Press… » 12/04/12 4:10pm 12/04/12 4:10pm

If you live in Illinois, you better pray super hard that your condom never breaks — or that something even worse transpires — because a state appeals court recently upheld a ruling that exempted pharmacists with religious objections from prescribing emergency contraceptives. Let's hope your friendly local Walgreens… » 9/26/12 2:40pm 9/26/12 2:40pm

Wheaton College, a private Christian school in Illinois, wishes to be exempt from the Obama administration's newly-enacted birth control insurance mandate, like other religious-run schools and hospitals. But there's one problem: Wheaton doesn't qualify for the exemption, despite the fact that they're adamantly against… » 8/03/12 4:50pm 8/03/12 4:50pm

Usually, when the Supreme Court upholds a law, that's it; the law is constitutional. If you want to keep on challenging that ruling, you basically have to make an entirely new law that mandates the opposite of the upheld law and then wait for it to be challenged all the way back to the Supreme Court, and then the… » 7/13/12 2:55pm 7/13/12 2:55pm

Just what America needs: more confusion over what birth control actually does. After reports surfaced on Friday that the FDA had quietly changed its description of how contraception works, the agency has clarified that it never changed anything and that all of this hullabaloo about saying that The Pill can't prevent… » 6/20/12 2:05pm 6/20/12 2:05pm