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Looking for affordable birth control? Congress may not have you covered, but Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) does...
Prior to last year, many pharmaceutical companies sold birth control products to university pharmacies at a deeply discounted price. But one result of the complex “Deficit Reduction Act”—passed by Congress in 2005—is that continued university discounts would increase the fees that pharmaceutical companies must pay to include their drugs in Medicaid, according to the Associated Press...
...announcement’s crescendo even called for “a new birth of freedom,” borrowing verbatim from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Calling for national unity, Lincoln said in 1858, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” “Divided, we are bound to fail,” would-be President Obama said, on the same note, 149 years later...
...euros, or about $33,250, in damages after doctors refused to grant her permission to terminate her pregnancy despite serious risk to her eyesight. Tysiac, who suffers from severe myopia, became pregnant for the third time in 2000. Three doctors told her she could go blind if she gave birth but, contravening Polish law, refused to write her a certificate that would authorize an abortion. After giving birth, Tysiac's eyesight has worsened to the extent that she cannot see objects more than five feet away. She now receives a monthly disability pension equivalent to 140 euros...
...Ever since the fall of communism in 1989 abortion has been a divisive issue in the predominantly Roman Catholic country. Available freely under communism, abortion was often the only means of birth control. In the early 1990s, a right-wing government introduced one of the toughest abortion laws in Europe, allowing abortion only when the pregnancy poses a threat to a woman's life or health, results from rape or when the fetus is irreparably damaged. "It's paradoxical that under communism women had a choice and now under democracy, they don't," said Barbara Kowalik, a 38-year...