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Barrier Methods
February 21, 2006 Reprinted in the Chicago Sun-Times, February 25, 2007 When Margaret Sanger was arrested in 1916 for “obscenity” (which is to say, advocating birth control), diaphragms were a...
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Inconvenient Contraception
March 17, 2009 Last week, birth control for college students got cheaper. An “affordable birth control” provision in the 2009 appropriations bill, which President Barack Obama signed last Wednesday,...
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Born This Way?
March/April From the time she could talk, Maggie* has told her parents that she is a boy. She doesn’t say, “I want to be a boy.” She doesn’t say, “I feel like a boy.” She says, “I am a boy.”...
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Former Prisoners Reforming Prisons
June 28, 2007 Elizabeth Gaynes has worked with people involved in the criminal justice system for more than 30 years: as a young law student in the early 1970s, she was galvanized by the uprising at...
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The Great American Chain Gang
May/June 2014 Laurie Hazen has bad taste in men. “They’re my downfall,” the 41-year-old jokes in her Massachusetts accent. “I have to really stay single.” An ex-boyfriend first introduced her to...
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