Word: parenthood
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Jennifer Erickson was tired of paying $300 a year for her birth control pills despite being covered under her employer?s health plan. She was frustrated because every one of her male co-workers? prescriptions were covered under the same plan. So she called Planned Parenthood, found a lawyer willing to take on her case, and, along with several other women, filed a class action suit against her employer...
...plans now or in the future to distribute RU-486 at the Holyoke Center. As a result, under the current arrangements, women seeking RU-486 must be referred by UHS either to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston or to the Planned Parenthood center in Brighton, the procedure currently followed by students seeking a surgical abortion...
...here is what it is like on the inside. On the inside, this family feels whole. It feels as if it works. My single parenthood is probably like the experience of millions of others--we have kids, pets, homes, jobs and ex-spouses in our lives. When we say, "Hi, honey, I'm home," it is to the baby sitter, the neighbor or a relative who has come over to help with child care. We don't go out much. We don't travel much. We cobble together work, meals and outside activities. Financially, we don't do as well...
...members in the U.S. and Canada, has made considerable headway. Since its creation in 1993, the group estimates that about 50, or a third of all medical schools, have introduced abortion or brought it back into their curriculums, either through mandatory coursework, elective classes, lectures or Planned Parenthood rotations. "They have made a tremendous difference," says Uta Landy, a curriculum consultant to med schools on reproduction issues...
...mandatory curriculum. At Brown, students urged professors to update their lectures by adding RU 486 and other abortion advancements as topics. The group at the University of Texas-Southwestern, where administrators were originally wary of even allowing a chapter, successfully pushed for a fourth-year elective at a Planned Parenthood clinic...