Planned Parenthood: Data Underscores Importance of Affordable Care Act’s Birth Control Benefit WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2013. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this morning released the results of the agency’s first publication ever on the use of emergency contraception in the United States, which shows that the usage is[Read More…]
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Use of Emergency Contraception Among Women Aged 15–44: United States, 2006–2010
Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2013. Key findings Data from the 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth In 2006–2010, among sexually experienced women aged 15–44, roughly one in nine (11% or 5.8 million) women had ever used emergency contraception, up from 4.2% in 2002. Most women who had ever used emergency contraception[Read More…]
GOCE Settles Debate on Sloping Sea
EU–(ENEWSPF)–15 Februay 2013. Sea level station For decades, scientists have disagreed about whether the sea is higher or lower heading north along the east coast of North America. Thanks to precision gravity data from ESA’s GOCE satellite, this controversial issue has now been settled. The answer? It’s lower. Many[Read More…]
Senators Kirk, Durbin: It is Essential that American Airlines Merger Does Not Delay O’Hare Modernization Program Negotiations
WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—February 15, 2013. After a merger between two of the country’s largest airlines was announced late yesterday, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) today stressed the importance of protecting thousands of jobs, air service in Illinois and the O’Hare Modernization Program (OMP) in a letter to[Read More…]
Bipartisan Group Presses for Sugar Program Reform
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2013. U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) renewed their effort to make commonsense, price-saving reforms to the U.S. sugar program yesterday afternoon when they introduced the Shaheen-Kirk Sugar Reform Act at a joint press conference with Congressmen Joe Pitts (R-PA),[Read More…]
Congress Can Avert Dangerous Automatic Cuts and Protect Investments in Jobs and Education by Closing Tax Loopholes
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2013. Unless Congress acts, on March 1 automatic and indiscriminate spending cuts will hit key programs, costing our economy more than 1 million jobs and cutting essential services for millions of low- and middle-income families. But a new infographic released yesterday by the Center for American Progress[Read More…]
NRA Working to Elect Pro-Gun Judges and Prosecutors
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2013. Today, as the gun control debate continues on the national stage, the Center for American Progress released “NRA Working to Elect Pro-Gun Judges and Prosecutors,” which traces the millions of dollars that the Law Enforcement Alliance of America, or LEAA, has spent in state races—with the[Read More…]
ACLU Supports Bipartisan Domestic Drone Bill
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2013. The first bipartisan legislation to regulate the government use of unmanned drones in the United States was introduced in the House yesterday. The American Civil Liberties Union supports the bill, which is sponsored by Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. “Unmanned drones must not[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Reaches $29 Million Settlement with Toyota
Attorneys General Settle Over Toyota’s Failure to Alert Motorists to Known Safety Defects Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2013. Attorney General Lisa Madigan yesterday joined a $29 million, multi-state settlement with Toyota Motor Corporation over its failure to alert motorists to dangerous safety defects that caused millions of vehicles to unintentionally accelerate. “In[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Files Suit Over Marketing Scam Targeting SIU Basketball Supporters
Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2013. Attorney General Lisa Madigan yesterday filed a lawsuit against a marketing firm for conning southern Illinois small businesses into paying for official advertising in marketing and promotional materials for the Southern Illinois University men’s basketball team. Madigan filed the lawsuit in Jackson County Circuit Court against The[Read More…]
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