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Women have been able to get birth control pills without a prescription since 2024. However, many women do not understand how the pills work, a recent survey indicates.

Some people expressed concern that the list could be used to track people using such medication in states with abortion restrictions.

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), who is running to succeed retiring Sen. Joni Ernst (R), is pushing to expand access to birth control as the race for the open Senate seat heats up. The Iowa congresswoman ...

Mary Ziegler, a contributing writer to Globe Ideas, is a professor of law at the University of California, Davis, and the author of "Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction." Specifically, the ...

Most sexually active women in the U.S. use contraception to prevent pregnancy. Following the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling, which overturned Roe vs. Wade and paved the way for abortion bans across ...

The most commonly used and prescribed birth control pill in the U.S. was classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the World Health Organization (WHO) as carcinogenic. In ...

The era of highly effective male birth control is just on the horizon, and it’s likely to be one with several options to choose from. Scientists reported this week that they have found another ...

Scientists at Cornell University may be closing in on the long-sought “holy grail” of male contraception: a safe, reversible, nonhormonal method that completely halts sperm production. In a ...

If you spend any time in D.C., you know rats are a problem. "They be in the dumpsters. They be running in groups, like, two, three — a few too many," one man told News4. Another resident said said ...

The Trump administration has delayed funding for thousands of reproductive health clinics, known as "Title X clinics," that serve uninsured and low-income people, which could leave many patients ...

"I'd take the periods any day now," Kerry Sharples said Kennedy News and Media A 45-year-old woman said she "regrets" getting birth control shots after she was diagnosed with four brain tumors Doctors ...