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Most of Obama's "Controversial" Birth Control Rule Was Law During Bush Years

The right has freaked out over an Obama administration rule requiring employers to offer birth control to their employees. Most companies already had to do that.

By Nick Baumann

 | Wed Feb. 8, 2012 2:10 PM PST
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Boehner Pledges to Reverse Free Birth Control Decision

The House Speaker wades into the contraception wars.

By Kate Sheppard

 | Wed Feb. 8, 2012 12:44 PM PST
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Romney's Ever-Changing Birth Control Stance

Does the presumptive GOP presidential candidate think you should have access to birth control or not?

By Kate Sheppard

 | Tue Feb. 7, 2012 9:02 AM PST
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Komen VP Blamed for Planned Parenthood Decision Resigns

The fallout from the cancer foundation's decision continues.

By Kate Sheppard

 | Tue Feb. 7, 2012 8:04 AM PST

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What Would It Take to Trust Komen Again?

Karen Handel has resigned. But the problems go much, much deeper.

By Clara Jeffery

 | Tue Feb. 7, 2012 3:00 AM PST

Komen Isn't the Only Do-Gooder Group Conservatives Targeted for Planned Parenthood Ties

The Girl Scouts have taken a lot of heat over their connection to Planned Parenthood, too.

By Nicole Pasulka

 | Fri Feb. 3, 2012 12:12 PM PST
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Komen's Position on Stem Cells Remains Unclear

The major cancer foundation is hedging its Planned Parenthood decision, but what about embryonic stem cells?

By Kate Sheppard

 | Fri Feb. 3, 2012 10:13 AM PST

What Does Komen's Latest Statement on Planned Parenthood Really Mean?

The cancer foundation is changing its story. Again.

By Adam Serwer

 | Fri Feb. 3, 2012 9:27 AM PST
Nancy Brinker, Komen CEO, at a 2008 event.

Did Komen Also Kill Funding Over Stem Cell Research?

The foundation can't seem to get its story straight.

—By Kate Sheppard with additional reporting by Adam Serwer

 | Thu Feb. 2, 2012 2:30 PM PST
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Komen's $7.5 Million Grant to Penn State Appears to Violate New Policy

Planned Parenthood lost Komen funding because it's under investigation. But Penn State is, too.

—By Adam Serwer with additional reporting by Kate Sheppard

 | Thu Feb. 2, 2012 12:56 PM PST

Fallout Over Komen's Planned Parenthood Decision

Looks like not everyone at the foundation is a fan of the new "rule."

By Kate Sheppard

 | Thu Feb. 2, 2012 8:06 AM PST
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Komen Founder Is Major GOP Donor, Bush Ambassador

Maybe the decision to end Planned Parenthood's grant wasn't all that surprising after all.

By Kate Sheppard

 | Wed Feb. 1, 2012 12:05 PM PST
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Komen Kills Grants for Planned Parenthood Breast Cancer Screenings

Anti-abortion activists push the cancer foundation to cut funding that helps thousands of women.

By Kate Sheppard

 | Tue Jan. 31, 2012 3:10 PM PST
Janet Howell

State Senator's Comeback to Mandatory Ultrasound Bill: Mandatory Rectal Exams for Men Seeking Viagra

If women have to undergo a medically unnecessary ultrasound before an abortion, should men undergo a rectal exam before getting their erectile dysfunction medication?

By Maya Dusenbery

 | Tue Jan. 31, 2012 11:30 AM PST
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Bishops Pledge to Violate New Birth Control Law

Several dioceses have informed parishioners that they plan to ignore the new rule requiring insurers to cover contraception.

By Kate Sheppard

 | Mon Jan. 30, 2012 12:47 PM PST
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Your Daily Newt: Health Chair Reform

In the future, Gingrich wrote in 1984, medical diagnoses and weight loss programs would be streamlined into a single piece of furniture.

By Tim Murphy

 | Fri Jan. 27, 2012 8:08 AM PST
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Romney Inadvertently Defends Obamacare (Again)

The former governor offers a heartfelt defense of his Massachusetts health care plan.

By Adam Serwer

 | Thu Jan. 26, 2012 8:15 PM PST
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Will Terri Schiavo Haunt Rick Santorum in New Hampshire?

The former Pennsylvania senator fought to save the late Florida woman's life. Now the New Hampshire state Legislature is revisiting the Schiavo controversy—at the worst possible time for Santorum.

By Andy Kroll

 | Tue Jan. 10, 2012 3:00 AM PST

Healthcare and the Free Market

By Kevin Drum

 | Mon Jan. 9, 2012 4:46 PM PST
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Rick Santorum's New Hampshire Roadshow: Terrorist Judges, "Snookered" Reagan, and Fidel Castro

The GOP's hardline underdog takes his pitch to small-town New Hampshire.

By Andy Kroll

 | Thu Jan. 5, 2012 12:01 PM PST