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On Monday the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released a report containing new guidelines regarding breast cancer screenings, which became a subject of controversy and criticism.
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Mandating non-medical home visits for new mothers is an attempt to control women’s choices.
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CPCs do offer pregnancy tests and counseling on abortion alternatives. What they don’t offer is abortion care, referrals or even accurate information pertaining to abortion or birth control.
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Last month we asked women to send us their health care stories. That simple question hit a massive nerve. We received hundreds of e-mails from young, middle age, older, widowed, divorced, mothers, sisters, daughters, brothers and fathers — all who had a story of their ordeal with the health care industry.
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A majority of the public has indicated that they do want any health care reform package to cover abortion. What’s more, the overwhelming majority of employer-sponsored health insurance plans do cover abortion; in essence, new, misguided restrictions to abortion represent not the status quo (mistakenly suggested by some of our allies in Congress), but a frightening rollback for women’s health.
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