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A contraceptive mandate is a government regulation or law that requires health insurers, or employers that provide their employees with health insurance, to cover some contraceptive costs in their health insurance plans. In 1978, the United States Congress prescribed that discrimination on the basis of pregnancy was discrimination on the basis ...
An informed consent clause, although allowing medical professionals not to perform procedures against their conscience, does not allow professionals to give fraudulent information to deter a patient from obtaining such a procedure (such as lying about the risks involved in an abortion to deter one from obtaining one) in order to impose one's belief using deception.
Emergency contraception, such as the morning-after pill, has been made more easily accessible on college campuses in the United States since the 2010s. It can be distributed through health centers and through health and wellness vending machines , which are intended to alleviate fears of social stigma.
The reproductive health landscape in the U.S. keeps shifting, particularly since Roe v.Wade was overturned in 2022. Access to medications such as birth control and emergency contraception is also ...
Unprotected sex on New Year’s Eve may be driving a spike in sales of emergency contraception after the holiday, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. In the study ...
In 1997, the FDA approved a prescription emergency contraception pill (known as the morning-after pill), which became available over the counter in 2006. [53] In 2010, ulipristal acetate, an emergency contraceptive which is more effective after a longer delay was approved for use up to five days after unprotected sexual intercourse. [54]
The California Legislature has voted to expand the salary mandate for healthcare workers statewide, after a hard-fought campaign by labor unions. Will California health workers get a $25 minimum wage?
(Gov. Code, §§ 12926, 12940, 12945, 12945.2.) In addition to the prohibition against pregnancy discrimination afforded under Government Code section 12940, the FEHA also requires employers to provide a reasonable accommodation, transfer, or leave for up to four months to employees disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition.