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Drug Administration in June lifted all age limits on the emergency contraception after months of back-and-forth legal battles. The Obama administration promised a federal judge it would take that step after women's health advocates pushed for easier access for more than a decade.
• "We've made some progress, and we have to acknowledge that, but there's still more," Asetoyer said. "They're still violating our rights to access by denying women who are age 16 and under. ...We have to ask, why are we being treated differently?"
• Quick, easy access to emergency contraception is crucial considering the prevalence of domestic abuse and rape of Native women, Asetoyer said. One-third of all American Indian and Alaska Native women will be raped in their lifetime, and nearly three of five had been assaulted by their partner, the U.S. Department of Justice has said.
• The IHS said Plan B One-Step would be available without a prescription for all ages once products with the FDA labeling are available.
• While Native women can go to any pharmacy at a federally managed IHS facility and get Plan B without a prescription, the rules can be different at facilities run by American Indian tribes. More than half of the IHS budget is administered by tribes through self-determination contracts or self-governance contracts.
• The medication is free for Native women because of the federal government's trust obligation to provide health care to them. Any woman 17 and older can buy Plan B from behind the counter at retail pharmacies.
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Replica of T-rex named Sue returns to South Dakota
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Tyrannosaurus rex named Sue is back in South Dakota, but museum officials quickly discovered she was going to need a bigger home.
• Workers preparing for the traveling exhibit had to add six vertical feet of space and temporarily remove a fourth-floor window to get the 42-foot-long, 13-foot-high model inside the Kirby Science Discovery Center.
• "We raised the ceilings, we raised the sprinkler pipes and she fit," said Jon Loos, the Washington Pavilion's vice president of operations.
• The exhibit, a full-size traveling replica of a Tyrannosaurus unearthed from South Dakota more than 20 years ago, opens Saturday and runs through Jan. 5. The model was created using casts of the original bones.
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