More young women in the United States are becoming receptive to using long-acting reversible contraception (LARCs) to meet their birth control needs, according to a story covered by NPR earlier this month.
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THIS WEEK, the Chicago Tribune published a story on an abortion doula. For those of unfamiliar with the term, a birth doula is someone who provides emotional and…
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DID YOU KNOW that there are some side effects to your birth control pill that fail to make it onto the insert? The drug companies…
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SOME MONTHS back, Planned Parenthood, other women’s health groups, and various Democrats were very vocal in their support of the proposal to make birth control…
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NOT a week goes by it seems without another piece of research linking hormonal birth control use to cancer. Last week we saw high estrogen…
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I’VE BEEN ON and off (mostly on) birth control pills since I was 18. Preventing unwanted pregnancy, although important, was not the main reason I…
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I LOVE Lena Dunham as much as the next woman. So when she announced last week on Twitter that she uses “birth control” to treat…
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