Topic: contraceptives

Parent Sues McDonald’s After Child Eats Used Condom In Play Area

I hate that I just had to type that title. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. More »

Ann Romney Thinks Gay Marriage And Contraceptives Are Distractions, Not ‘Real’ Issues

During an interview with an Iowa TV station, First Lady wanna-be Ann Romney reiterates that she hears the American women and she is just like us–except for the fact that she doesn’t get the importance of issues like gay marriage and birth control because she refuses to even talk about these topics that are just “distracting” us from “real” issues. More »

Rep. Joe Walsh Rants About Sandra Fluke And Her ‘Embarrassing’ Birth Control Stance

If you really want to piss off Republicans, talk to them about Sandra Fluke and a woman’s right to have taxpayers fund her birth control. Fluke continues to be a thorn in the side of many Republicans, and now Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh is ranting about her and her ‘embarrassing’ stance on birth control at the Democratic National Convention last week. More »

Women’s Health, We Salute You For Talking About Why Birth Control Rocks

A lot of major women’s magazines like to talk about sex, and some even discuss birth control options. But rarely do they take a stand in the politics of birth control access, abortion, or insurance coverage. So when Women’s Health launched a special report on birth control laws and your health, and asked readers to share praise for contraceptives on twitter with the hashtag #birthcontrolrocks, it raised some eyebrows around Blisstree. It’s a bold issue for a major magazine to cover, and it could be unpopular with advertisers and even some readers. But it’s also something we think any publication that claims to care about women’s health should be talking about right now. So: Women’s Health, we salute you, and thank you for talking about birth control and politics. More »

5 Questions For Planned Parenthood On Funding, Abortion, and Contraceptive Access

Planned Parenthood has been at the center of some of the most important political debates in the past few months—over their funding, abortion services, and contraceptive access for women in the country at large. In the process, we’ve seen a lot of competing information about what they do and don’t offer, how they get their money, and how well they support women’s health. To clarify, we asked them to respond to some of the biggest criticisms of late—including the ones charged by former Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson—and clarify the facts. More »

Sandra Fluke: Contraceptive Access Is Key To Getting More Women In Politics

Sandra Fluke was among seven women on stage at New York City’s 92nd Street Y last night on a panel moderated by Chelsea Clinton. The event, called “Running in Heels: Where are the Women Candidates for 2012 and How Can We Get More Of Them?” led to a lot of talk about how women hold themselves back in the political arena, but Sandra Fluke broke rant to make an important point: That women also face a lack of support from public policies when it comes to success in politics—including challenges to contraceptive access. certain structural barriers that shouldn’t be discounted, and as much as women need to encourage each other to step up to leadership positions, we also need public policies to help us get there…like contraceptive access. More »

Should Birth Control Be Covered By Health Insurance? You Tell Us.

Wow, it’s been quite a week with all of the debate over birth control that Rush Limbaugh stirred up. Should health care insurance be forced to cover birth control? Should religious organizations have to cover birth control under their insurance plans? Should taxpayers be responsible for birth control? Those are the main debates that have been swirling around on our site, and boy, did some of our readers let us know what they think.

So, let’s give everyone an opportunity now to be heard. We want to know: Should birth control be covered by health insurance? Take our poll, leave your comments and voice your opinions once and for all (although, somehow we don’t think this will be the end of the discussion). More »

Why Rush Limbaugh And Sandra Fluke Matter For Your Health

Over the weekend, one of Blisstree’s readers commented on Facebook that our coverage of celebrities and Rush Limbaugh‘s birth control comments don’t meet the criteria for a wellness site. And apparently she’s not the only one who thinks health publishers should shy away from coverage of the contraceptive coverage controversy—while national news was chronicling every step of the story as a political story, it didn’t figure prominently in “health” news at all. Whether you’re a man or woman; left, right or in between: If you read health news, you should be mad if they ignored this story. More »

Rachel Maddow Explains Birth Control To Rush Limbaugh And The GOP

Rachel Maddow gave yet another lesson on birth control for Rush Limbaugh and other GOP supporters who’ve been calling Sandra Fluke a slut for her statements in support of contraceptive coverage. She says his inflammatory statements are meant to be just that: His job, after all, is all about causing outrage for better ratings on talk radio. What’s more disturbing than his offensive statements about Sandra Fluke is that he doesn’t seem to understand how birth control works. So, like when she went into the “man cave” to teach Mitt Romney and other dudes about birth control, she gave yet another quick lesson in human biology for Limbaugh–and other members of the GOP who don’t seem to understand how it works. More »

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Watch Judd Nelson And Nick Offerman Mock Congress’ Birth Control Panel

Earlier this month, the fact that no women were called to testify on Congress’ special birth control caused outrage; politicians fanned the flames with ignorant comments about women’s health and contraceptives (see: Foster Friess on aspirin or Rick Santorum on abortions and cancer). This week, Judd Nelson and Nick Offerman, joined by other male comedians are taking their turn at being women’s health experts on Funny or Die, and it’s hilarious. More »

Yet Another Birth Control Recall–Maybe It’s Time To Consider Another Method

Oh, good. Another birth control recall has been announced–this time, it’s seven lots of generic pills, which have the placebo in the wrong place. That marks the second one this month. Our uteruses simply cannot catch a break. More »

Bad News For Birth Control: Judge Ruling Allows Religious Pharmacists To Refuse Plan B

Federal judge Ronald B. Leighton ruled yesterday that pharmacists can refuse to hand out Plan B One-Step for religious reasons, on grounds that it’s unconstitutional to overstep their right to “conscientious objection.” The good news? You can also refuse to patronize drug stores that won’t stock drugs for religious reasons. More »

Adam Levine Says Pulling Out Is ‘Foolproof’ Birth Control. It Is Not.

If I didn’t know better, I’d swear there was a secret competition going on for which public figure can give the worst birth control advice. First, Foster Friess told us “gals” that we should just stick some aspirin between our knees; now, Adam Levine is happy to let us all know that pulling out is his favored, “foolproof” birth control method. So…when’s the baby due? More »

Lowest U.S. Birth Rates Ever: Economy Or Birth Control?

New reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that birth rates dropped another 3% in 2010, making three consecutive years of dropping numbers. Experts are debating whether it’s the economy or better birth control that’s responsible for the dwindling numbers, but however you want to explain it, the numbers indicate to us that women are smarting up about their family planning. Which doesn’t surprise me, but given that just a few days ago, MSNBC proclaimed women ignorant about the details of their own fertility, I thought it might be worth pointing out. More »

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