Birth Control

Besides protesters dressed as abortion pills, and a Planned Parenthood “health” mobile doling out free vasectomies and abortions, a 20-foot tall inflatable intrauterine device (IUD) is visible near the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this week.

The WNBA and the manufacturer of the first over-the-counter birth control pill launched a multi-year partnership on Tuesday with its public debut scheduled for the 2024 WNBA Draft next week.

The first over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the U.S. is headed to stores in the coming weeks and will also be available online.

Left-wing activists launched a campaign for an amendment that would enshrine the “right” to kill the unborn in Maryland’s Constitution.

Women nationwide will no longer need a doctor’s prescription for oral contraceptives — by next year, they will be able to pick them up off the shelves at any drug store.

Democrat lawmakers are pushing for insurers to cover over-the-counter birth control, if and when it becomes available without a prescription.

Outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted 17-0 on Wednesday to endorse over-the-counter birth control pills.

Doctors say they are seeing a “drastic increase in vasectomies” following the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade.

Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) predicted Thursday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that Republican lawmakers’ constituents would not accept anti-contraception positions and votes.

State abortion laws could impact where young people choose to live and who they choose to have sex with, a new poll found.

Democrat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is pressuring Joe Biden to instruct the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make prescription birth control available over the counter.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, through a spokesman, declared “reproductive rights” the paramount struggle of humanity this week. He is right, but not in any way recognizable to him or his organization.

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles is pushing back against critics of her response to an Instagram post that said, “Abortion is wrong.” Biles recently asked for her Instagram followers to post their unpopular opinions. One such follower responded by saying, “Abortion

A Tacoma science teacher distributed a flyer to middle school students that advised they can obtain abortions and birth control at any age and without their parents’ consent.

Pop superstar Britney Spears told a Los Angeles, California, judge on Wednesday that her conservatorship has forced her to use birth control, which has prevented her from having a third child.

China’s state-run China Daily ran an astonishing piece on Thursday celebrating the forced sterilization of women from the Muslim Uyghur minority of Xinjiang province as a triumph of feminism because the women have more “autonomy” now that they do not have to spend all their time raising children.

The Smithsonian exhibition “Girlhood (It’s Complicated)” features transgender Jazz Jennings and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.

A Maine abortion group is extending contraception prescriptions for fear more time at home due to the coronavirus will result in a “baby boom.”

A scientist studying population development in China revealed on Tuesday that the Communist Party “seriously overestimated” how many babies were born in 2019, a year whose official birthrate was the lowest in the history of the People’s Republic.

Planned Parenthood will open 50 centers in Los Angeles schools that will distribute birth control drugs and provide pregnancy counseling.

Planned Parenthood announced it is expanding its app that delivers birth control to people’s homes in all 50 states by the end of 2020.

Teen Vogue– once a magazine that mostly featured makeup tricks and fashion tips – is now stirring up concerns that its young readers will have no access to contraception, courtesy of the Trump administration’s Title X rule.

Maryland may become the first state to retaliate against a new Trump administration rule governing family planning by ending the state’s participation in the federal grant program known as Title X.

“I want to be sure we’re all clear about something that Brett Kavanaugh said in his confirmation hearings last week,” Clinton tweeted Wednesday morning. “He referred to birth-control pills as ‘abortion-inducing drugs.’ That set off a lot of alarm bells for me, and it should for you, too.”

A Chinese academic report published this week suggested the nation should begin taxing all adults under 40 and using their money for a “reproduction fund” that would benefit families with more than one child in an attempt to raise birth rates, triggering widespread outrage.

The government of China will soon increase compensation to small and childless families who endured the era of the one-child and two-child policies in anticipation for an end to these measures, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s most memorable and controversial encyclical letter, dealing with the “regulation of birth,” and many Catholics are taking advantage of the date to commemorate a “prophetic” teaching.

A federal judge sided with the Trump administration in a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood over new requirements for groups seeking to receive Title X family planning grants.

A new report released by the CDC that finds a trend of significantly less teen sexual activity is promoting a shift in the focus of sex education from one that assumes most teens are sexually active to one that supports healthy decisions.

The Planned Parenthood 2016-2017 annual report shows that it continues to perform over 320,000 abortions per year while offering no mammograms and minimal prenatal services to pregnant women.

Planned Parenthood President and CEO Cecile Richards mocked the use of natural family planning (NFP) as a method of birth control, asserting that women’s intake or implantation of artificial hormones in their bodies is what is best.

Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker has signed a bill into law that, save for churches, forces employers in the state – regardless of their religious or moral convictions – to provide free birth control to workers.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a motion Thursday to put a stop to President Donald Trump’s decision to protect employers of faith and with moral convictions from the Obama-era contraceptive mandate.

Planned Parenthood is urging women to talk to their bosses about paying for their decision to use birth control when they have sex.

A new app that delivers hormonal birth control drugs, including the morning-after pill, directly to girls as young as 12-years-old without requiring a doctor visit is expanding throughout the country.

Fans of the Seinfeld Show may remember Elaine’s dilemma when her favorite form of birth control was being discontinued, leading to her and other characters’ decision to stockpile her brand and to wonder whether her dates were “sponge-worthy.” If you read the headlines last week about changes to the Affordable Care Act mandates, you may have thought that fiction had become fact as groups such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL turned on the hyperbolic sirens claiming the end of birth control was near. Fake news personified.