The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have taken a new public position on contraceptives. These experts say birth-control pills should be sold over the counter, without a prescription: Easier access to OCs should help lower the nation’s high unintended…
Posts tagged as “reproduction”
Yesterday I mentioned America's declining teen birth rates and wondered how that improvement squares with the cries of moral decline that we hear from our alarmist right-wing neighbors. That improvement is relative. Compare birth rates in the U.S. with our…
If you are one of the conservative culture warriors who is certain that America's moral fabric is unraveling, then how do you square your sense of doom with the news that the U.S. teen birth rate is at an all-time…
As South Dakota forces women to submit to 72-hour waiting periods and state-mandated propaganda from uncertified "counselors" before obtaining abortions, and as conservatives hyperventilate that requiring health care providers to provide basic health care is really a war on religion,…
There are no anti-abortion bills in the South Dakota Legislature's hopper yet. But Rep. Peggy Gibson (D-22/Huron) and Sen. Angie Buhl (D-15/Sioux Falls) have introduced House Concurrent Resolution 1001, to recognize this coming week as Reproductive Rights Awareness Week. My…
Supposedly we liberals are out to gain power by forcing the lower class into total dependence on government. That's what Rush Limbaugh tells his minions. That's how Thomas Sowell says politicians win votes. I'm pretty sure that Bob Ellis, Troy…
Good lawmaking requires the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes. John Rawls changed the metaphor a bit, saying we need to make laws as if we didn't know whose shoes we'd be wearing (he calls his concept the…
Governor Dennis Daugaard will decide this week whether he will veto House Bill 1217 or whether he will nullify women's reproductive privacy in South Dakota. But if that loss of privacy won't stop HB 1217, perhaps the loss of privacy…