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December 2007:
Teen birthrate climbs after years of decline
Published in the Columbus Dispatch Thursday December 6, 2007
Maternity leave plan shot down
Quick denial shocks civl-rights panel Tuesday December 4, 2007 By James Nash The Columbus Dispatch ...
 
October 2007:
Moms, it's too early to cheer
Removed state senator placed back on panel Akron Beacon Journal ...
Panel OKs expanding maternity leave rights
Action affects businesses with 4 or more workers ...
445,000 Ohio women may gain right to 12 weeks maternity leave
Civil Rights Commission clarifies rules Friday, October 26, 2007 Robert Schoenberger Printed ...
Maternity leave to be expanded
If rule's approved, smaller firms must grant 12 weeks   BY JON CRAIG AND THE ...
Ohio commission votes for maternity leave law
Move requires allowing 12 unpaid weeks off ASSOCIATED PRESS ...
Ohio may solidify moms' right to 12 weeks maternity leave
Rights panel reviews maternity leave rules Alison Grant Plain Dealer ...
12-week maternity leave up for vote
Commission's proposal would expand benefit to more moms-to-be By Dennis ...
Ohio Civil Rights Commission approves unpaid maternity leave
Thursday,  October 25, 2007 1:05 By James Nash  THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH   Nearly ...
Daughter Knows Best
By Ruth Marcus 10/24/2007 Printed in the Washington Post, Page A19 ...
Author speaks on women's issues
By Matt Liasse Printed in the Bowling Green News 10/24/2007
 
August 2007:
Colleges hike price for birth control pills
By Julie M. McKinnon Blade Staff Writer
Groups rip baby-leave plan
One objection raised: Changes would hurt small businesses   By James ...
 
July 2007:
Abortion backers, foes hopeful
By Julie Carr Smyth Associated Press COLUMBUS - Those on both sides of Ohio's never-ending debate over ...
Abortion law would give fathers a say State legislators propose change; opponents blast bill as 'extreme'
[excerpts of article are below, you can read the full article on the Record-Courier   webpage at http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/2327981.] ...
Pregnant workers may get more rights
By James Nash THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Keep polling places neutral
SECRETARY of State Jennifer Brunner should prevent creeping commercialism and any sort of sloganeering within Ohio's voting places by ...
Birth control not cheap at college
By Stephanie Irwin Gottschlich, Staff Writer
Board may decide that logos on apparel are Election Day no-nos
Dayton Right to Life planned to put its name on workers, bringing about the debate of fairness with ...
Right to Life aims to be seen at polls
Anti-abortion group asks people to wear shirts bearing group's name while working Election Day venues.
Legislator tries again to ban all abortions
Republican thinks a law could spur Supreme Court to reverse Roe V. Wade ...
Abortion bill reintroduced
7/11/2007 Cincinnati Enquirer
Line by line: The governor pulls no surprises before signing the new budget
Akron Beacon Journal Editorial July 1, 2007 ...
Strickland signs budget
July 1, 2007 By William Hershey Staff Writer Dayton Daily News   ...
 
June 2007:
AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION, A POUND OF MANURE
Cleveland Free Times Charu Gupta
 
May 2007:
PREVENTION FIRST ACT Bill offers plan to curb abortions in Ohio
By Catherine Candisky THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH   Like ...
Strickland stance on sex-ed funds is wise
Letter to the Editor Toledo Blade As a taxpayer, I have personally and publicly thanked ...
Abortion pictures raise eyebrows
By Laura Allen The Lantern (OSU)
Sex ed in the Miami Valley remains controversial
Governor announced in March that Ohio would reject Title V funding for abstinence-only classes. ...
Ohio: A backwards state for emergency contraception
Mon May 07, 2007 at 03:03:56 PM   ...
 
April 2007:
An abortion consensus
The common ground of prevention The Akron Beacon Journal Editorial Page Rare ...
ER contraceptive harder for some to obtain
Rape, assault victims have more access to Plan B than those having unprotected sex
Schools may broaden sex ed
Granville looks at teaching more than abstinence -- with parental approval
Abortion debate takes center stage after Supreme Court decision
Ohio could push for new laws after last week's ruling By: Jackie Valley Last week, ...
Teen pregnancies and parents
$2.2 million state grant awarded to Lucas County to help reduce the unwed teenaged pregnancy rate is welcome and ...
Be more realistic on abstinence education
From an editorial in the Louisville Courier-Journal : Conservatives constantly complain about public dollars being ...
Retreat from Roe
The Supreme Court upholds a ban on partial-birth abortion and expresses its hostility to a woman's right to ...
New limits put on abortion
Justices uphold ban on 'partial-birth' procedure   BY MARGARET A. MCGURK
Abortion Ruling Will Impact States
By DAVID CRARY
New Rhetoric in SCOTUS Abortion Ruling
By PETE YOST The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Ever since Roe ...
Abortion Ruling Emboldens Opponents
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — The ...
Supreme Court justices uphold nationwide ban
By Jack Torry and Catherine Candisky The ...
$2.2M grant aimed at reducing number of teenage pregnancies
By ROBIN ERB BLADE STAFF WRITER
Abstinence programs studied
ACLU asks 31 Ohio school districts for copies of curricula after reports programs aren't working ...
Budgetary changes signal new education prioritie
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland's proposed two-year budget has eliminated $500,000 of annual state funding for abstinence-only education, and Strickland ...
Just say no to forced ideology
by Roberta de Boer The Toledo Blade
Strickland plan on abstinence fund for sex-ed is reasonable
  Another view: Keep abstinence in Ohio's sex-ed curriculum By Dayton ...
Bush administration point man on welfare reform, abstinence education, steps down
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wade Horn, the Bush administration’s point man for welfare reform, Head Start and abstinence education, ...
Is abstinence-only the right message for teens?
By Laura A. Bischoff Staff Writer Sunday, April 01, 2007 SPRINGBORO — — Nationally known abstinence-only ...
Abstinence advocate makes an impression on high school students
Ohio is a national leader in abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, and in 1999 the legislature passed a law requiring school districts ...
 
March 2007:
Family Planning Official Resigns
The doctor in charge of the Bush administration's family planning programs resigned yesterday after revealing that state Medicaid officials had ...
Mary McCarty: 'Abstinence plus' could be sex-ed compromise
I'll never forget the day that Ohio's abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education policy hit home.
Don't just say 'no'
Advise teens to abstain from sex, but also teach them about contraception
Keep abstinence in curriculum
Gov. Ted Strickland needs to reconsider killing funding for the state's abstinence-only education - ending eight years of support for ...
Absence of results
There are better uses for state money than abstinence-only programs Since 1999, when Ohio required ...
Advocates: Kroger policy still weak on morning-after pill
ATLANTA Two weeks after Kroger said it was clarifying its policy on stocking the so-called "morning after" pill, ...
Abstinence programs face cuts
The debate over abstinence-only education in Ohio is heating up after Gov. Ted Strickland proposed eliminating spending for it ...
Gov. to end abstinence program
 BY JON CRAIG
Governor's budget would end abstinence-only dollars
The administration says it also has no plans to apply for federal money for the programs after the current ...
Abstinence-only sex ed may get cut, but not without a fight
Advocates say abstinence- only programs are successful, but governor believes they don't work in the long run. ...
Advocates: Kroger policy still weak on morning-after pill
DOUG GROSS Associated Press ATLANTA - Two weeks after Kroger Co. said it was clarifying its ...
Get free morning-after pills
CANTON Today, Planned Parenthood of Stark County at 2663 Cleveland Ave. NW will offer the "Plan B" pill ...
Court Says Health Coverage May Bar Birth-Control Pills
By Tamar Lewin
Graphic abortion protests rile business owners
BY KIMBALL PERRY
State to review sex-ed programs
Sunday, March 11, 2007 Regina McEnery Plain Dealer Reporter The Ohio Department of Health plans ...
Kroger reminds pharmacists of company policy after Ga. complaint
ATLANTA - Kroger Co. said Friday it was reiterating its drug ...
Romney isn't the first to flip on abortion
Reagan, Gore and Gephardt all reversed positions. It can work, depending on how voters gauge the sincerity. ...
 
February 2007:
Governor supports ‘right to choose’
Strickland opposes time-restrictive law on abortion drug Annie Hartman Staff Writer ...
Wrong Again
Who Could Argue With Reducing Unplanned Pregnancies? Republicans, of Course. By Charu Gupta ...
Strickland pleases NARAL Pro-Choice
This letter to the editor was printed by the Dayton Daily News.
 
January 2007:
2 sides seeking middle ground
Democrats of disparate viewpoints push bill to reduce abortions Monday, January 22, 2007 Jonathan Riskind THE ...
Taft signs bill restricting abortion funding
BY JON CRAIG
 

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