family planning
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Goodbye Fertility: How I Pretty Much Ran Out the Clock on My Ovaries
A long, dusty time ago I saw an article title that jokingly—but seriously—said: “Oops, I Forgot to Have the Baby.” It was about 40-something-year-old women who were without children and coming to grips with the reality that they may never have children. In most cases, they’d “chosen” a career over family—as if that’s really a…
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We Out: Planned Parenthood Says Trump ‘Gag Rule’ Will Force It to Abandon Low-Income Reproductive Health Program
Unless a federal appeals court gives a hard pass when it comes to a “gag rule” imposed by the Trump administration regarding abortion, Planned Parenthood says it’ll be forced to abandon the low-income family planning program funded by federal dollars. “We refuse to let the Trump administration bully us into withholding abortion information from our…
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Appeals Court Refuses to Block Trump Rule That Would Cut Planned Parenthood Funding
In a major setback for Planned Parenthood, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a Trump ban on funding clinics that refer women to abortion providers can take effect while the court weighs the overall merits. Federal law has long banned use of federal funding to pay for abortions, but monies could still be provided…
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Federal Appeals Court OKs Trump’s Abortion Gag Rules
In a decision Planned Parenthood called “devastating,” a federal appeals court Thursday ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s family planning gag rule intended to prevent health providers from making abortion referrals or discussing where a patient might have one. Thursday’s ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allows the rule to take…
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Shonda Rhimes Joins National Board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Black superwoman, television dynamo and queen of Thursday nights on ABC Shonda Rhimes will add another title to her résumé as she joins the national board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Rhimes has never shied away from broaching difficult topics on her shows, including those involving women’s reproductive rights, and the topic of abortion…