MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 24, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conceptus Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTS), developer of the Essure® procedure, the most effective non-surgical permanent birth control method available, ...
A Republican legislator in Michigan has proposed legislation that would require women to go through an invasive procedure known as a transvaginal ultrasound before they could get an abortion. The bill ...
“Women might consider this bill a TSA pat-down inside their vagina.” —Jon Stewart, “The Daily Show” Contraception and abortion are shaping up to be mobilizing issues in this year’s presidential ...
CHEYENNE — Senators overwhelmingly supported a House bill Tuesday afternoon that requires women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound no more than 48 hours before taking an abortion pill. House Bill 64 ...
WASHINGTON – Virginia Republican legislators have dropped a bitterly contested requirement that women seeking abortions undergo invasive ultrasound imaging, likely dooming the bill. The ...
Plenty of pundits on both sides of the ideological aisle have weighed in on the country's ongoing abortion debate and the transvaginal ultrasound mandates passed by several states—what some people ...
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) - Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law a bill that requires women to have an ultrasound procedure before they can legally have an abortion ...
“Are we now going to have to convince our patients we are not raping them?” A longtime abortion provider posed that question to colleagues on a listserv this week, and it demonstrates what is ...
Republicans in Michigan are pushing a bill that would essentially require all women seeking an abortion to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound first. The bill would mandate the “performance of a ...
It’s not as if “Doonesbury,” the comic strip, hasn’t tackled controversial subjects before. Still, the series just released, which features a woman seeking an abortion being forced to undergo a ...
Pregnancy scans can be exciting yet nerve-wracking, especially during the first trimester when everything is new. And, ...
A Florida college that allegedly forced students to perform vaginal ultrasounds on each other as part of a medical training program has permanently banned the practice. Valencia State College's ...