My wife has had one for years, and I get poked from time to time. Also, she used to have a NuvaRing, and I could definitely feel that, but it wasn’t painful and, in fact, was kind of pleasurable. It ...

Surgeon general pick Casey Means stood by her past claims that birth control has "horrifying health risks" and softened her tone during a confirmation hearing Wednesday. The big picture: Some pro-life ...

Following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) decision that overturned the right to abortion given under Roe v. Wade (1973), access to reproductive care has been severely limited.

In 1987, Zurich was a hotbed of radical feminism. For three Swiss francs (close to $6 today), left-wing bookstores sold a copy of a pamphlet called “Antisexistische Schrittversuche fuer die Aufloesung ...

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 ...

Birth control interactions occur when medications or supplements affect how well contraception works or increase side effects. These interactions vary depending on the type of birth control you use.

Last week while chatting with a friend, we landed on the topic of birth control — namely, how she was questioning whether or not to remain on her current prescription. When I inquired further, curious ...

Gunda Georg and Narshimulu Cheryala, who directed much of the lab work to develop YCT-529 Around the world, roughly 121 million unintended pregnancies occurred each year between 2015 and 2019. Of ...

Contraceptives, including condoms, the birth control pill, and long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), are a vital part of reproductive health and family planning. Since the first oral ...

As misinformation about women’s health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media ...

Social media has long been rife with misinformation about birth control, much of it slamming hormonal contraceptives for health harms (like infertility or even abortion) that it does not cause, or ...

Nine states, including Wisconsin, have no law specifying whether minors can obtain birth control without parental consent. However, Wisconsin residents under age 18 can get contraceptives ...