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Not so long ago, the contraceptive pill was available only to married women. Naturally, sexually active single women found ways to circumnavigate this, finding fake rings and sympathetic medical professionals, and finally soc
stanley cup iety buckled to demand, slowly nudging forward our reproductive rights.This week those rights shuffled on again with the launch of a same-day delivery service for the morning-after pill, designed to be taken up to 72 hours after unprotected sex. For the past six
stanley cup weeks, emergency contraceptive manufacturer ellaOne has been dispensing it directly to women within the Greater London area. Users answer a short online questionnaire and, if no concerns are raised, their order is sent in as little as three hours. It is available 24/7, 365 days a year, and will soon roll out countrywide.The morning-after pill has come a long way since its controversial launch in the UK in 1984. Although it has been available without a prescription from pharmacies since 2001, the 2015 decision to provide it t
stanley tumblers o under-16s sparked further debate, as did the recent reduction in price.Despite its widening availability, ellaOnes research showed that many women still hesitated to buy it: of those the company spoke to, 46% aged 18-35 had unprotected sex in the past year, and nearly 75% of them had decided not to use emergency contraception. Some reported being unable to get to a pharmacy or clinic, while others were put off by the potential awkwardness of asking for the pill over the count Oaaf The good and bad of children s books by celebrities
Torture, secret prisons and disappearances: all feature prominently in the legacy of Augusto Pinochet. It is a matter of great regret that the former Chilean dictator - brought to power in a CIA-backed coup on September 11 1973 - avoided trial for gross abuses of human rights in his ravenous pursuit of power. But it is a matter of even greater regret that the same tools and the same sponsors are back in action today, with the same impunity, as part of the war on terror launched after September 11 2001.When the Bush administration brought 14 of its most highly valued terrorism suspects to Guant谩namo Bay from secret prisons in various countries in September, the US president himself acknowledged for the first time the existence of a network of CIA prisons. This was intended to close a chapter that had become embarrassing to Washington. The US practice of illegal kidnappin
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stanley quencher mned by many European politicians, UN officials and international lawyers, as well as US-based human-rights groups.But, as a new report from the British monitoring group Cageprisoners reveals, the men held in Guant谩namo Bay are only the tip of the iceberg: thousands more are hidden elsewhere, outside the law. The war on terror is taking a terrible toll on Muslim families and societies through a vast programme of secret
