Family Planning

Doctoring in a family way

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Jennifer was one of my first patients as a new doctor, and she came to see me about an unintended pregnancy. A single mom to a rambunctious 5-year-old girl, Jennifer was struggling economically and battling depression. We talked about the options...

A plan to make the morning-after pill a moot point

2013-05-07 04:09:00

It's a new front in the long-running battle over reproductive rights, playing out this time as a clash between politics and science. Doctors say there's no medical reason to keep girls of any age from having easy access to the morning-after...

Judge again rejects limits on emergency contraception

2013-05-11 00:00:00

In yet another scathing critique of government health officials, a federal judge refused Friday to stay his order making emergency contraceptives available to consumers of all ages without a prescription. Calling government efforts to restrict the...

Government will appeal Plan B emergency birth control ruling

2013-05-01 19:02:00

The U.S. attorney's office announced late Wednesday that it would appeal a federal judge's decision to make Plan B One-Step and related emergency birth control pills available to consumers of all ages without a prescription. In papers filed with the U....

Myanmar panel proposes measures to ease ethnic tensions

2013-04-29 13:00:00

NEW DELHI, India -- Ever since Myanmar opened to the West, released political prisoners and allowed the opposition led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to run for office, it has been dogged by tensions among its many ethnic and religious minorities....

Hoag Hospital to stop performing elective abortions

2013-05-05 17:32:00

In a letter to affiliated physicians and staff, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach has announced that elective abortions will no longer be performed at the hospital. The letter said the decision is based of the low number of procedures done annually at...

Hoag Hospital will stop performing elective abortions

2013-05-06 08:22:00

In a letter to affiliated physicians and staff, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach announced that elective abortions will no longer be performed at the hospital because of the low number of procedures done annually. The decision was based on a review of...

Letters: Science vs. politics on Plan B

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Re "Birth control ruling appealed," May 2 It is fitting that the online version of this article on the Obama administration's appeal of an order to remove the age limit on Plan B emergency contraception appears on The Times' Science Now blog. As a...

Obama 'very comfortable' with age restriction on 'morning after' pill

2013-05-02 20:04:00

MEXICO CITY -- President Obama says he’s “very comfortable” with a Food and Drug Administration ruling that maintains age restrictions on females who can buy the so-called morning after pill without a prescription. The rule announced...

Plan B One-Step debate continues

2013-05-02 15:50:00

Confused by the wrangling in federal court over the Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive? You're not the only one. As U.S. attorneys work hastily to halt a federal judge's order regarding the sale of the so-called morning-after pill, medical and...

Plan B contraception and Obama's betrayal of women

2013-05-02 16:48:00

President Obama spit his game, as the kids say, when he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at a Planned Parenthood conference a little over a week ago: “You’re making me blush,” he cooed to their thunderous applause. “I love you back.&...

Breaking the vicious cycle of foster care

2013-05-05 00:00:00

My sisters and I spent the majority of our adolescence as foster kids in Los Angeles County. We entered the system after my parents divorced. My mom, who was both poor and mentally ill, wasn't equipped to be a single parent to six young children. No one...

A federal judge has refused the Justice Department's request to issue a stay on his ruling requiring emergency contraception to be sold over the counter to customers of all ages. Pharmacist Simon Gorelikov holds a generic version of the pill.

2013-05-11 10:35:00

The FDA has approved the sale of the emergency birth control pill Plan B One-Step without a prescription to females 15 years of age and older.

2013-04-05 00:00:00

France's national drug agency ANSM started consultations with prescribers of third-generation contraception pills on January 2 to try to limit the use of such pills which are subject to complaints, after a French woman attributed her stroke to her contraception pill in mid-December 2012.

2013-01-02 22:24:02