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NEWSworthy: Iowa lawmakers pass fetal heartbeat abortion ban—Iowa lawmakers ban abortion after six weeks: *UPDATE BELOW ARTICLE*

  Iowa lawmakers passed a “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban on July 11, banning abortion after six weeks’ gestation. The state’s Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed the bill into law Friday. “The measure,” NBC reports, “includes exceptions for the life of the woman,...
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FDA Approval of Opill Reveals Our Birth Control Blind-Spot

    In an unsurprising move, the FDA announced Thursday that it has officially approved the Opill, a progestin-only birth control pill, for over-the-counter use (OTC) for all women of reproductive age. It will be the first hormonal birth control pill ever to be sold...
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Social Security’s People Crisis

  Writing in the September 1 New York Times about the financial woes of Social Security, C. Eugene Steuerle and Glenn Kramon insist “Young Americans Can’t Keep Funding Boomers and Beyond.” The gist of their argument is that given the pay-as-you-go financing mechanism of...
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      It was in a short piece posted by a cranky young blogger a little over a decade ago that I first read about dogs replacing children in the lives of young adults. This correlates to cohabitation replacing marriage in this cohort, but it reflects a cultural change...
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