Consistently no-bullshit Federal Judge Edward Korman flat-out denied the government’s request to stay his order pending an appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals today, calling the administration's appeal
Just when you thought we were going to take a big step forward with broadening access to emergency contraception, the U.S. attorney's office swooped in like a hawk stealing someone's poor, trembling chihuahua with an announcement that it would appeal a federal judge's decision to make Plan B-One Step and similar…
You can now buy Plan B One-Step over the counter if you're age 15 or older — which would be more of a cause for celebration if a federal judge hadn't ordered the FDA to make the pill available to women and girls of all ages last month. What happened?
In a monumentous decision, a federal judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove longstanding age and point of sale restrictions that prevent women from easy access to emergency contraception. The FDA has 30 days to comply. It's about damn time.
American women have more than doubled their use of emergency contraception in recent years, thanks mostly to millennials, according to the latest episode of Girls. No, just kidding; we know 11 percent of women have used emergency contraception at least once, up from 4.2 percent in 2002, and that nearly one in four…
When conservative blowhards argue that women should pay for their own damn contraception, they really mean women should pay for their own sluttish decisions; religious right talking heads never tire of asking why employers should subsidize sinful lifestyles. But here's the real question: why should women bear the cost…
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…
Last night, perennially bronzed Speaker of the House John Boehner was forced to abandon "Plan B," his "solution" to the "fiscal cliff," after failing to get enough Republican support to bring it to a vote. Ouch. Kinda embarrassing. But what was Plan B? And what is the significance of its failure? When I saw first saw that…
One year ago today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius decided
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
