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The New York Civil Liberties Union filed complaints Tuesday against three upstate pharmacists, saying they refused to fill prescriptions for refill doses of emergency contraception.
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at least 18 states are considering 36 bills that would "protect" and "shelter" pharmacists and other health care workers from providing care that conflicts with their personal religious beliefs.
The alarming erosion of any pretense of a wall between church and state here in Texas is evidenced by the state's diversion of $5 million in health care funds to evangelistic crisis pregnancy centers.
Sunsara Taylor comments on a recent report by the CDC that recommends classifying all women as pre-pregnant--whether they intend to conceive or not. An audacious leap along the logical fault line that values women as mere fetal incubators.
This report provides recommendations to improve both preconception health and care. The goal of these recommendations is to improve the health of women and couples, before conception of a first or subsequent pregnancy.
New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves -- and to be treated by the health care system -- as pre-pregnant, regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon.
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