There's a battle being waged across the country between people who see birth control as essential for women's health, self-determination and to avoid abortions ‒ and those who claim some forms of ...

It’s a weird time to talk about contraceptives. Here's what the debate is missing.

TikTok has become a hotbed of birth control misinformation, with videos accumulating millions of views in which women blame their IUDs for pelvic floor dysfunction, autoimmune conditions, liver ...

The birth control pill is one of the most common forms of contraception in the U.S. But in recent years, claims of side effects of the pill have filled social media platforms, often fueled by ...

Sarah Slater and her daughter Trinity McClellan, 12, both use birth control to curb symptoms caused by chronic period pain. Using birth control is life or death for Kendall Hantelman. She was ...

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 ...

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 ...

On its face, The Icon and the Idealist is not a book about abortion. Thanks to advances in technology and medical knowledge, Americans have become accustomed to an ideological separation between ...

There are countless posts on social media about taking a “break” or doing a “cleanse” from birth control, and how hormonal birth control is “unnatural” – but this is not helpful advice. If you are on ...