On Wednesday, a judge put on hold an Oklahoma law requiring medical abortion providers to tell patients that the procedure is reversible. Under the law, which had been scheduled to go into effect in November, doctors who fail to give this information to patients could receive a felony charge. The law also requires abortion providers […]
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Jon Stewart takes on Hobby Lobby
His latest victim is one near and dear to many Oklahomans’ hearts (and vaginas): Hobby Lobby. In the midst of the Supreme Court brouhaha on the Oklahoma Citybased store’s beef with Obamacare — specifically, the law’s insistence that corporations provide its employees with specific types of birth control — Stewart ripped Hobby Lobby’s faith-based objection […]
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LETTERS
This contraception, if taken within 72 hours after unprotected sex, will most likely prevent pregnancy but will not terminate an existing pregnancy. However, getting an appointment with a doctor for a prescription could cause unacceptable delays. Equally bad, a female age 17 and older must prove her age with identification that she may or may […]
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Just how sacred is it?
Oklahoma Baptist University, Mid-America Christian University, Southern Nazarene University and Oklahoma Wesleyan University are suing the federal government. The argument is, of course, that the legislation forces these universities to shirk a belief — claimed to be biblical — that a human life begins at conception and is, therefore, immoral. The problem is, some biblical […]
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There is an update. The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) joined the Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice to challenge the law. On Aug. 19, the case went before Oklahoma District Judge Lisa Davis. She ruled that the law cannot go into effect while the lawsuit is pending. She added that CRR’s challenge has […]
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LETTERS
There is an update. The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) joined the Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice to challenge the law. On Aug. 19, the case went before Oklahoma District Judge Lisa Davis. She ruled that the law cannot go into effect while the lawsuit is pending. She added that CRR’s challenge has […]
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Contraception empowers women
It was nearly half a century before the United States Supreme Court, in the landmark 1965 opinion Griswold v. Connecticut, overturned bans on the sale of contraception to married women. Seven years later, the Supreme Court would recognize this same right on behalf of unmarried women. More recently, the Obama administration, under the Affordable Care […]
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Crossing Obamacare
The Christian faith of Hobby Lobby’s sole owners, the Green family, is as ubiquitous as the Christian pop songs on the chain’s satellite radio station. All stores close on Sundays, and full-page newspaper ads quoting scripture have become a tradition on Christian holidays. Mardel, a smaller chain under the same ownership, specializes in Christian merchandise. […]
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Embryonic
Recent research has clarified how emergency contraceptives, or ECs, work. Seldom suppressing egg release, ECs are often “embryocidal,” as European medical authorities stated in 2009, destroying life before implantation. Game-changing recent studies precisely revealed how the most popular ECs work. Chilean researchers attempted to definitively show Plan B chiefly suppresses ovulation without embryocidal effects and […]
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The truth of emergency contraception
New rules under the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, require contraception coverage without cost to women as part of basic health care coverage. Despite overwhelming evidence that the ability to plan and space pregnancies critically impacts a woman’s health and the health of her children, many employers, most notably the Oklahoma City-based Hobby […]