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...Iowa, where it counts, Forbes has pandered much more heavily to the Christian Coalition than has Bush, who thought a talk about Jesus on the beach with the Rev. Billy Graham would be enough. Forbes diluted his flat-tax message to appeal to religious activists by promising "a new birth of freedom"; that's his way of telling true believers they should be free to post the Ten Commandments in public schools and have only antiabortion judges appointed to the Supreme Court...
Walk into most any Wal-Mart in the U.S. and here are a few of the things you can buy: condoms, birth control pills, hunting rifles, "Western" style toy guns, the movie There's Something About Mary, the National Enquirer, cigarettes, the video game South Park, the hard-rocking Powerman 5000's hit Tonight the Stars Revolt. And here are a few of the things you can't buy: a "day-after" birth control kit, handguns, authentic-looking plastic guns, Playboy, rolling papers, the movie South Park, the video game Grand Theft Auto and any number...
...Mart customers are not of one mind on some of society's more complicated matters, as it learned with Preven. The primary ingredient in Preven is ethinyl estradiol/levonorgestrel--the same as in birth control pills--given in a high dose. The package also contains a pregnancy test. Although Wal-Mart wouldn't stock Preven, it has always sold birth control pills...
Earlier this year, Planned Parenthood sent women to Wal-Mart stores with "emergency" prescriptions for birth control pills, not Preven by name. A few pharmacists refused to fill them, some apparently under the false impression that these drugs will terminate a pregnancy, as opposed to preventing...
...Catholic, but gave little thought to the Good Book when she had her first child at 17. Before long, though, she joined a gang and had fallen into the habit of having babies. She has eight kids and another due any day. "I didn't know a lot about birth control," Campos says. She has since studied her options and decided on a tubal ligation: a common procedure, usually performed after delivery, that permanently prevents pregnancy. "It has taken me since I was 17 to get off welfare and get a good job," says Campos, who has just left...