
Birth control coverage up for federal appeal
In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the ...

US government files morning-after pill appeal
The Obama administration on Monday filed a last-minute appeal to delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of any age without ...
Judge in NYC refuses to suspend his Plan B ruling
A judge on Friday refused to delay enforcement of his decision giving women of all ages broad access to morning-after birth control, calling the ...
Judge in NYC rips opposition to Plan B order
A federal judge, asked by the government on Tuesday to freeze his plan giving teenage girls broader access to morning-after birth control, instead ...

Obama OK with morning-after pill sales at age 15
President Barack Obama said Thursday he was comfortable with his administration's decision to allow over-the-counter purchases of a morning-after pill ...
Obama "comfortable" with FDA approach on Plan B
President Barack Obama says he's comfortable with his administration's decision to allow over-the-counter purchases of a morning-after pill for anyone ...
Bayer to pay $1.1B for California firm Conceptus
German drug company Bayer AG says it has agreed to buy California-based Conceptus for around $1.1 billion to expand the kinds of birth control it ...

Risk for Obama in pursuing morning-after pill case
President Barack Obama supports requiring girls younger than 17 to see a doctor before buying the morning-after pill. But fighting that battle in ...

Judge making morning-after pill available to all
The morning-after pill might become as easy to buy as aspirin. In a scathing rebuke accusing the Obama administration of letting election-year ...

Arkansas GOP eyes Planned Parenthood funds next
Not content with enacting the most restrictive abortion law in the country, Arkansas Republicans plan to press the legislative advantage their party ...
Lawsuit charges weigh on Bayer profits again
Charges for lawsuits over its birth control pills weighed on Bayer AG's earnings once again during the fourth quarter of 2012. The German company said ...
German bishops OK contraception in rape cases
Roman Catholic-run hospitals can prescribe limited emergency contraception to rape victims, German bishops said Thursday as they sought to contain ...

Morning-after pill use up to 1 in 9 younger women
About 1 in 9 younger women have used the morning-after pill after sex, according to the first government report to focus on emergency contraception ...
Bishops press for broader birth control exemption
American bishops said Thursday the Obama administration's latest compromise on birth control coverage and religious employers doesn't go far enough ...

Obama birth control mandates loosens lawsuits
The legal challenges over religious freedom and the birth control coverage requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul appear to be ...

New law points to Philippine church's waning sway
Twenty-six years after Roman Catholic leaders helped his mother marshal millions of Filipinos in an uprising that ousted a dictator, President Benigno ...
Judge halts contraceptive mandate for Mich. firm
A federal judge has ruled a property management company owned by the founder of Domino's Pizza doesn't have to immediately implement mandatory ...
Texas judge OKs ban on Planned Parenthood funding
Texas can cut off funding to Planned Parenthood's family planning programs for poor women, a state judge ruled Monday, requiring thousands to find new ...
Atty: Hobby Lobby won't offer morning-after pill
An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health ...
Justice refuses to block morning-after pill rule
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday denied a request to block part of the federal health care law that requires employee health-care ...
Court strikes down Costa Rica in-vitro ban
A Costa Rican ban on in-vitro fertilization has been struck down by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a decision that reproductive health ...

Philippines OKs divisive contraceptives bill
Philippine legislators passed a landmark bill Monday that would provide government funding for contraceptives and sexuality classes in schools despite ...