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Friday, April 19
"From Chicago the fight goes national," says Matt Peck, alerting us to a story in the New York Times on the continuing fight for timely access to birth control. Seems like Gov. Blagojevich's efforts to make his emergency rule permanent have sent pharmacies throughout the country in a tizzy, especially over the morning-after pill.