Action Required To Combat Female Feticide In Canada

Canada should prohibit disclosure of the sex of a fetus until after 30 weeks of pregnancy to combat female feticide which is practised by some ethnic groups in Canada and the United States, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)….

Opinion Piece, Editorial Discuss Contraceptive Use, Unintended Pregnancies

This week, an Institute of Medicine expert panel is holding its first meeting to discuss recommendations on women’s preventive health services. The recommendations will help HHS determine which services health plans will have to cover without cost-sharing by consumers under a provision of the federal health reform law (PL 111-148)…

Kansas City Star Editorial Commends Planned Parenthood Chapter On 75th Anniversary

Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri “has stood in the path of some powerful forces in its 75-year history,” the Kansas City Star writes in an editorial marking the anniversary…

Iowa Lawmakers Should Update Abortion Laws To Accommodate Use Of Telemedicine, Editorial Says

By using telemedicine to dispense abortion medication, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland is applying the technology “as it was intended: to expand access to legal health services in rural Iowa,” the Des Moines Register states in an editorial…

N.J. Gov. Christie Should Restore Funding For Family Planning Centers, Editorial Says

“There is no room for ideology when it comes to basic health care,” but “that appears to be what’s going on in the scrimmage over state funding for women’s health programs” in New Jersey, a Bergen Record editorial states. Among the “many items sacrificed under the new austerity-measures category” in Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) budget proposal, family planning clinics lost $7…

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