President Barack Obama announced in his inaugural address that one of the priorities of his administration will be to “restore science to its rightful place.”
That was an essential statement after eight years of direct assaults on scientific and medical progress by a Bush/Cheney administration that was determined to deny realities for political purposes.
One of those realities is that women have a right to make choices about when and whether to have children — and they have a right to access a full range of reproductive health services.