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Colorado county board renews decision to ban Plan B at health clinics

Debate characterized by anti-abortion anxiety and aversion to subsidized contraception

John Tomasic | 05.09.13 | 1:01 pm | View Article

This story was originally published by The Colorado Independent. More…
Colorado’s Weld County Board on Monday renewed a 2010 policy that prevented county health clinics funded by the federal Title X women’s health program from dispensing Plan B emergency contraception to their mostly young and low-income patients.

Cropped image of a Michigan Department of Community Health brochure on HIV testing. Read the full brochure here.

Not-so-confidential HIV testing

The Michigan health department has been secretly collecting information on people who test for HIV at federally funded clinics. For a decade.

Todd Heywood | 03.04.13 | 9:02 am | View Article

Since 2003, the Michigan Department of Community Health has been secretly collecting the names, dates of birth, risk categories, and other demographic information of people submitting for confidential HIV testing at grant-funded locations throughout the state and storing them in a massive database, a months-long investigation by The American Independent More…

Lawmakers seek to bar discrimination against LGBT jurors

Andy Birkey | 01.28.13 | 1:59 pm | View Article

Lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate recently introduced bills banning discrimination against prospective jurors based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Last year, an American Independent investigation revealed numerous instances of likely discrimination against LGBT jurors in both state and federal courts.
Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.) introduced the More…

Andy Birkey interviewed on the Michelangelo Signorile Show 9/18/12

The American Independent | 09.19.12 | 9:17 pm | View Article

American Independent reporter Andy Birkey went on the Michelangelo Signorile Show on Sept. 18 to talk about his reporting More… on corporate foundations giving big money to the Boy Scouts of America, despite the fact that the Boy Scouts have a policy of excluding gays and lesbians that violates some of

Corporations giving big money to Boy Scouts despite anti-gay policy

Andy Birkey | 09.18.12 | 3:00 pm | View Article

Corporate foundations have given millions to the Boy Scouts of America and its subdivisions in recent years despite that organization’s policy of excluding gays and lesbians. Many of those same foundations have policies against giving to organizations that discriminate based on sexual orientation.
Twenty-three of the top 50 corporate foundations, More…