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s from Recent or Upcoming Scientific Meetings 49 The Year in Review 57 Photo Highlights from the 2007 Yale Ob/Gyn Residents’ Research Day 65 Photo Highlights from the First YOGS Gathering at ACOG in San Diego, May 2007 67
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1901 Arizona Comstock Law
In 1901, the Arizona Territorial Legislature codified territorial law that illegalized advertising, causing, or performing abortions anywhere in Arizona. The 1901 code, in conjunction with the federal Comstock Act, regulated the advertisement and accessibility of abortion [3] services and contraceptives in Arizona. The Federal Comstock Act of 1873 [4] had illegalized the distribution of materia...
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In 1914, Margaret Sanger published ?Family Limitations,? a pamphlet describing six different types of contraceptive methods. At the time Sanger published the pamphlet, the federal Comstock Act of 1873 [4] had made distributing contraceptive and abortion [5] information through the US postal service illegal. The Comstock Act classified contraceptive information as obscene and limited the amount ...
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This paper assembles new evidence on some of the longer-term consequences of U.S. family planning policies, defined in this paper as those increasing legal or financial access to modern contraceptives. The analysis leverages two large policy changes that occurred during the 1960s and 1970s: first, the interaction of the birth control pill's introduction with Comstock-era restrictions on the sal...
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McDonough’s perspective on healthcare reform in the US provides a clear, coherent analysis of the mix of access and delivery reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare. As noted by McDonough, this major reform bill is designed to expand access for health coverage that includes both prevention and treatment benefits among uninsured Americans. Additionally, this legislation includes s...
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