August 23, 2009, Orlando Sentinel

Everything that was tied up in the previous presidential administration is quickly coming undone. Congress passed a provision in its massive omnibus spending bill that allows pharmaceutical companies to reinstate discounts on birth control pills and other hormonal contraceptives that they had previously offered to family planning clinics and college campus health clinics.

by Cecile Richards, President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Posted August 18, 2009, 3:54pm on Huffington Post

So yesterday an article by Dan Gilgoff appeared in the U.S. News World Report titled "Bishops Demand Universal Healthcare Without Abortion." Does anyone else see the irony in the U.S. bishops wanting to define universal health care as covering everything except for what they don't support? Under this theory, I suppose women are supposed to wait to see just exactly how the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops comes down on a variety of health care needs to understand what in fact will be considered universal. Since when does universal health care mean denying comprehensive reproductive health care supported by the majority of Americans?

July 31, 2009, Naples Daily News

NAPLES — It’s not the curriculum, it’s the policy.

That became the debate Thursday night over whether or not the Collier County School Board should change its policy about sex education in the schools.

The current policy reads that the curriculum should address “an awareness of the benefits of sexual abstinence as the expected standard and the consequences of teenage pregnancy.” But a majority of board members thought that policy was too vague.

They voted 3 to 2 to revise the board’s policy. Board Chairwoman Pat Carroll and board member Steve Donovan dissented.