All items tagged as: "medicine"
Contraception debate heats up again as faith and facts clash
Aug 1, 2012 in Politics, Religion
Beginning today, women insured under their employers’ plans will “have access to the full range of the Institute of Medicine’s recommended preventive services, including all FDA -approved forms of contraception.” As the majority of religious organizations throughout the world have a seeming love/hate relationship with the notion of sex – combined with the dastardly concept of women’s rights and empowerment – the socially conservative Right is still unsuccessfully trying to wrap its collective head around this one.
Former ‘Obamacare’ critic, cancer patient realizes value of ‘change’
Dec 8, 2011 in Culture, Politics
One married, mother-of-two writes on her cancer diagnosis, her family’s survival in a struggling economy and her own experiences in realizing how the Affordable Care Act can and should help others just like her – because “access to healthcare shouldn’t depend on luck.”
Denialism runs amok with Bachmann/Perry vaccine scare
Sep 14, 2011 in Politics, Science
Michele Bachmann’s erroneous claims that HPV vaccinations cause mental retardation are just the latest mainstream example of the surge of anti-science, anti-progress denialism that is infecting this country.
