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There have been several deaths in California as a result of illegal abortions, including 35 in 1966 and 1967. California uses its own funds to cover all "medically necessary" abortions sought by low-income women under Medicaid. 88,466 were state-funded in 2010. California has an active abortion rights activist community.
Hobby Lobby that under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), closely held for-profit corporations are exempt from the contraceptive mandate, if they object on religious grounds, because the accommodation offered to objecting non-profits would be a less restrictive way to achieve the ACA's interest. Justice Anthony Kennedy, one of the ...
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.
Burwell was a case before the United States Supreme Court on whether religious institutions other than churches should be exempt from the contraceptive mandate, a regulation adopted by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires non-church employers to cover certain contraceptives for ...
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]
This week a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law that requires minors in the state to get parental permission to access contraception through a federally funded family planning program known ...
Possibly due to small population [2] Moldova: Europe: €17,03 (UPA) €8,04 (LNG) † €4,21 – €4,73 (Mifepristone) 62% (2012) † Free for women under 21 and in cases of rape at Youth Friendly Health Centres [93] Montenegro: Europe: Possibly due to small population [2] Morocco: Africa [94] Mozambique: Africa: Myanmar: Asia: None: Under ...