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Duane Reade stores in Lower Manhattan are selling emergency contraceptives at the checkout line while most other products are locked up due to a rise in shoplifting. Helayne Seidman
Nearly everything is kept under lock and key at some Big Apple drug stores - except the morning-after pill, which shoppers can pick up in bins by the checkout line alongside gum and hand sanitizer.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Women will be able to get contraceptive pills and implants direct from their pharmacist under new NHS plans.The proposals will mean women can access them without having to first see a doctor.

Women seeking abortions are facing cruel delays because they are being blocked from choosing where they can get treatment, it has been warned.Charities have said that the failure of some NHS funding bodies to pay for out-of-area terminations is a breach of NHS rules and standards and is putting patients at risk.

Premier League footballer Benjamin Mendy has told a court he enjoyed having sex with a lot of women.On Monday, the player, who is accused of seven counts of rape, told his trial at Chester Crown Court it was honestly, so easy for him to meet women to have sexual activity with.But the 28-year-old French international player said being in prison while on remand for the charges had made him learn lots of things about life.

Starting this fall, Wesleyan University will cover the costs of abortion services for its students.The elite literal arts school in Connecticut confirmed Thursday that its student health center will offer free emergency contraceptives and help finance abortion procedures in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last June.

I hate being a mom.And I really hate being a single mom.I don't hate my kid; I adore him.But I hate taking care of him, I hate being solely responsible for him, I hate "playing," and I hate supporting him on my own (his father contributes nothing and there's little I can do about it).Most of all, I hate that I often see my son as a burden, and I hate the thought that on some level, he either knows this already or will divine this as he grows older.

The healthcare.gov website is seen in 2021.A federal judge in Texas who previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a narrower but key part of the nation's health law Thursday.Alex Brandon/AP AUSTIN, Texas A federal judge in Texas who previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a narrower but key part of the nation's health law Thursday in a decision that opponents say could jeopardize preventive screenings for millions of Americans.

Any type of hormonal contraceptive may increase the risk of breast cancer, research from the University of Oxford has suggested.Although experts have stressed this should not discourage people from taking the pill, the findings have prompted questions.So how concerned should people be?It has been known for decades that use of combined oral contraceptives is associated with a small increase in breast cancer risk.

New research has found that all hormonal contraceptives "carry a small increased risk of breast cancer," The Guardian reports.Previously only the combined pill was linked to an increased risk of developing breast and cervical cancer, according to Cancer Research UK, but now this also contributes to progestogen-only contraceptives (also known as the mini pill).

Only after having this could I move on, she said.Holly McComish was just 25 years old when she had a stroke that almost killed her.Doctors at the hospital told her to immediately stop taking the contraceptive pill she had been prescribed two months earlier.Having been prescribed the pill over the phone and not even been given a pamphlet laying out the risks and side effects associated with taking it, Ms McComish said she was unaware of the pill's more serious potential effects.

The Supreme Court on Monday defended Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. against allegations that a former anti-abortion leader had been tipped off in 2014 to a landmark contraception ruling written by the justice.The court also sidestepped questions from lawmakers about whether the claim would be investigated further.

There was a time when U.S. parents who abandoned their children were a rarity and fit a narrow profile.Due to overwhelming cultural or social pressures, their unplanned pregnancy put them at significant risk, so they felt they had no choice but to hide the pregnancy, give birth alone and abandon the infant.

Despite all the headlines about the procedure, many Americans do not know basic facts about abortions or who gets them, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll.Take the quiz below it has the same questions as the poll and test your own knowledge.Then, read on to understand more about how the facts connect to the abortion debate.

People argue as a group of anti-abortion rights protesters crashes the Women's March Action Rally for Reproductive Rights at Mariachi Plaza in Los Angeles on Oct. 8. David Mcnew/AFP via Getty Images LOS ANGELES  California will amend the state constitution to guarantee the right to abortion and contraception.

Late last month, the city council in Bristol, Virginia-a small city in the southwest corner of the state-began reviewing an unusual zoning proposal: an ordinance that would restrict abortion within the city's borders.This is among the first attempts to restrict abortion at the local level (rather than via state law) since the Supreme Court's June decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization  In states like Virginia-where abortion is legal but not explicitly protected by state law-it's not clear if or how localities can restrict abortion.

MADAME RESTELL: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist, by Jennifer Wright Jennifer Wright opens her painfully timely biography of Madame Restell, the notorious abortionist of Fifth Avenue, with her final arrest, in 1878, at the hands of the anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock.

Issued on: 15/12/2022 - 15:38 06:18 FRENCH CONNECTIONS  FRANCE 24 In this week's French Connections, Genie Godula and French Connections take a closer look at what French law says about abortion and contraception, in light of some new developments.Recently, the government made contraception and condoms completely free for anyone under the age of 26.

Lawmakers in the French parliament voted on Thursday to add the right to abortion to the constitution in response to recent changes in the United States and Poland.Published: 24 November 2022 16:20 CET Members of parliament from the left-wing La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party and the ruling centrist coalition agreed on Thursday on the wording of the new clause, which was then put to a larger vote.

Lawmakers in France's lower house of parliament began debating a proposal Thursday to enshrine abortion rights in the country's constitution, the first step in a lengthy and uncertain legislative battle prompted by the rollback of abortion rights in the United States.Authors of the proposal, from a left-wing coalition, argued it was aimed at protecting and guaranteeing the fundamental right to voluntary termination of pregnancy and to contraception by inscribing it into our Constitution.

The words No woman may be deprived of the right to termination of pregnancy were approved by France's Asssemble Nationale on Wednesday  the first step towards adding the amendment to the country's constitution.The short text was proposed by Aurore Berge, who is an MP with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance and member of the Renaissance party and received initial approval on Wednesday.

PARIS  France will begin offering free condoms in pharmacies for people ages 18 to 25 starting Jan. 1, in a bid to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday.It's a small revolution for prevention, Mr. Macron said as he announced the news during a health debate with young people in western France.

My friend Charlotte Jones, who has died aged 95, was a pioneering GP, an early advocate of family-planning services and an obstetrician who taught doctors and midwives to make childbirth as positive as possible for women, with fewer medical interventions and more involvement of partners.An only child, Charlotte was born in Vienna and raised in Czechoslovakia.

More than 30 birth control products have cost-sharing requirements or coverage exclusions, a violation of the Affordable Care Act, according to an investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform into health plans and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).The findings, revealed this week in a staff report, show that the insurers and PBMs are not abiding by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which requires issuers and health plans to cover U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved contraceptive products without requiring patients to pay out-of-pocket, which is also referred to as cost-sharing.

Azeem Majeed, a professor of primary care and public health at Imperial College, London, said plans for pharmacists to prescribe antibiotics were unclear, but were unlikely to involve making the drugs available over the counter.The backlash came amid reports of plans to allow pharmacies to prescribe antibiotics without patients first being examined by their GP.