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Court Favors Contraception Requirement

KUNM | By Megan Kamerick

Published September 21, 2013 at 12:34 PM MDT

September 21, 2013

Appeals court rules in favor of Obamacare requirement that health plans cover contraception; Iran releases human rights lawyer; female police commander murdered in Afghanistan; first Miss America of Indian descent draws racist Tweets; Saudi woman's film pitched to Academy Awards; dating site connects female students to "sugar daddies"; Nancy Gibbs named first female editor at TIME; Wendy Davis ponders Texas gubernatorial run; Business Insider fires CTO for sexist social media messages; Albuquerque City Council sends abortion ban to voters; remembrance for Jane Blume.

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Megan Kamerick

Megan has been a journalist for 25 years and worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans and Albuquerque. She first came to KUNM as a phone volunteer on the pledge drive in 2005. That led to volunteering on Women’s Focus, Weekend Edition and the Global Music Show. She was then hired as Morning Edition host in 2015, then the All Things Considered host in 2018. Megan was hired as News Director in 2021.

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