Birth Control

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Contraception Objections Denied

Big Fat Whale
Unfertilized eggs just don't taste as good.
By BRIAN MCFADDEN | February 15, 2012

Breaking down the cost of Brown; birth control mirth; business as usual

Hill hiking
Mayor Angel Taveras and Brown University are locked in a nasty fight over upping the school's payments to the city. And the university's governing board has announced it will hike tuition and fees by 3.5 percent next year.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | February 15, 2012

Why the Republican embrace of just one Catholic issue is the height of hypocrisy

Come to Jesus
We like men in dresses as much as the next person.
By EDITORIAL | February 15, 2012

The future of contraception

Men's birth-control role may increase; women will get more options
Whether your interest is personal — Get me off these hormones! — or policy-related — Global population is growing too fast! — the matters discussed at last month's Future of Contraception Initiative conference in Seattle matter to you.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | November 09, 2011

Men's birth-control role may increase; women will get more options

The future of contraception
Whether your interest is personal — Get me off these hormones! — or policy-related — Global population is growing too fast! — the matters discussed at last month's Future of Contraception Initiative conference in Seattle matter to you.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | November 09, 2011

Progressive nightmare

With their values under attack, many Mainers view this legislative session as the stuff of bad dreams
The sky is actually falling for Maine progressives, whose core values are under attack in Augusta.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | March 16, 2011

By | January 01, 0001

Rhode Island’s birth control contretemps

Medicine
Recently OB-GYN Associates, a respected women's health care practice with offices in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, admitted to Rhode Island Department of Health officials that it had implanted in patients birth control intrauterine devices (IUDs) apparently manufactured in Canada and not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | July 07, 2010

Cover the boobs; leave the guns at home

Diverse City
Spring has barely started, and I was expecting a few of the usual seasonal assaults to the eyeballs.
By SHAY STEWART-BOULEY | April 28, 2010

By | January 01, 0001

A black leadership silent on abortion fabrications

Choice
Last month, controversial anti-abortion-rights billboards appeared in Georgia hinting that abortion is a tool of black genocide.
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | March 24, 2010

Safe sex, duh

UPDATE
A sharp-eyed reader caught an omission in one of Your Secret Admirer's previous columns.
By YOUR SECRET ADMIRER | April 29, 2009

By | January 01, 0001

Interview: James Carroll

The full transcript of the Phoenix's conversation with the author
The Phoenix 's Adam Reilly recently spoke with Globe columnist James Carroll about his new book, Practicing Catholic (Houghton Mifflin), and his critical but durable relationship with the Roman Catholic Church.
By ADAM REILLY | April 01, 2009

Unveiling the new (old) Planned Parenthood

Rebranding the Branded
Planned Parenthood wants abortions for everyone! Well, not exactly.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 25, 2009

By | January 01, 0001

Thoughts on the 36th anniversary of Roe V. Wade

Woman rights
To commemorate that anniversary, the Maine Choice Coalition, along with the Maine Civil Liberties Union, the League of Young Voters, and the Portland Phoenix, are teaming up to screen the film I Had An Abortion at SPACE Gallery on Wednesday, January 28.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 21, 2009

I had an abortion

Forty percent of American women have abortions by the time they're 45. I'm one of them.
Does anyone think about us, the people who have actually gone through with an abortion, and accepted that it was the right decision, for whatever reason, at that time?
By ANONYMOUS | September 24, 2008