This week the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to take up the Right to Contraception Act. The bill, introduced by Rep. Kathy E. Manning, a Democrat from North Carolina, establishes a federal ...

Birth control or contraception is important for adults of all ages. However, choosing the right method of birth control is just as important for people over the age of 40. As women get older, their ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which stripped away the constitutional protection of abortion rights, some abortion-ban states and pro-life politicians have turned their attention ...

New writes that “the Guttmacher Institute’s own data show that 50 percent of all women seeking abortions were using some form of contraception the month that they became pregnant,” claiming this as ...

More than half a century before the Supreme Court guaranteed the right to contraception, women handed out pamphlets on birth control in New York City's Union Square on May 20, 1916. (Bettmann Archive ...

Extended-cycle birth control pills involve taking one “active” pill daily for around 84 days before pausing for a 7-day break for withdrawal bleeding. After the break, the person begins taking the ...