Birth control in the US right now is full of contradictions.

In the days following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, Americans stocked up on their birth control and pregnancy management options amid the looming threat to access by the president-elect ...

Kristan Hawkins is not what you might call a unifying figure. The founder and leader of Students for Life of America, a grassroots anti-abortion network, Hawkins travels to college campuses for ...

The body, accustomed to external hormone regulation, must recalibrate its natural cycles. This transition can result in temporary irregularities, such as changes in menstrual cycles, mood fluctuations ...

This year, for the first time in the roughly sixty-year history of the birth-control pill in the United States, it can be bought over the counter. You might not know about this development—many people ...

Two years after the FDA approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, new research shows it’s effectively expanding access to contraception. Women who took nonprescription Opill (norgestrel) ...

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