Earlier this month Boston College came under fire for punishing a student group for distributing condoms on campus. Now Georgetown and Catholic are saying that they would do the same.
Two scientists say that giving deer in Rock Creed Park birth control is a more effective way of controlling their population than simply shooting them, as the National Park Service wants to do.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was interrupted while addressing Georgetown University graduates by a protester who objected to the Obama administration’s contraception policy.
After hearing that their music was playing in the background while Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut,” Rush, the band, is threatening the radio host with legal action.
The blog RH Reality Check posted an item yesterday alleging that Gennet Purcell, the District of Columbia’s relatively new insurance commissioner, had surreptitiously conspired to make it possible for D.C. women to lose their birth control coverage. But the Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking, the agency Purcell runs, has since emphatically denied the story. Here’s what RH Reality Check reporter Amie Newman wrote on Thursday:Under Purcell’s watch, private insurance companies operating in Washington…
Now this is some off the wall ridiculousness right here. A Fairfax County girl was given a two-week suspension and a recommendation for expulsion because she was “caught” taking her birth control pill during lunch last month. Of course, the school’s side of the matter is that there is a zero-tolerance policy in the school for any kind of pill — the Post reports that students are subject to possible expulsion if they bring “any…
You might remember reading about the Divine Mercy Care pharmacy, a new Catholic retail pharmacy planned for a location near Route 50 in Chantilly, Va., in the Post back in June. Well yesterday the ‘Pro-life’ pharmacy opened to the public, after having been blessed by a Catholic bishop. The concept behind the store is that it’s just like any other pharmacy, except they won’t sell birth control pills, condoms, or the morning after pill. They…