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“It’s really important for people to understand that reproductive health for women is mainstream and no different than any other type of health care,” said Christie Vilsack, the former first lady of Iowa. “In many cases — and I think this is especially true in small towns — there is a perception that these services are taboo or something controversial when they aren’t at all.”

Teens in the U.S. are more likely to become pregnant than teens in any other comparable nation. That was the message that local family planning organizations wanted Iowans to know Thursday, the eighth annual National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
“Teens deserve honest, accurate, age-appropriate information about how to protect themselves,” said Amy Halvorson, Director of [...]

Driving across a rural Iowa highway, anti-abortion signs are almost as common a sight as farmers spraying crops. Now there is a growing body of evidence linking the substances sprayed on fields to human reproductive health issues, including unintended abortions.

It’s been rumored that when Sen. Joe Biden announced to the audience at a recent presidential debate that both he and Sen. Barack Obama had been tested for HIV, the collective gasp pulled paint off the auditorium walls at Howard University.
“I got tested for AIDS — I know Barack got tested for AIDS,” Biden said. [...]