We are entering a startling new era in the politics of birth control, with President Donald Trump launching the most serious effort in decades to curb contraception. The Department of Health and Human ...

Posts urging women to stop using traditional oral contraceptives are exploding online, in part due to influencers promoting them with hashtags like #stopthepill, #hormonefree and #naturalbirthcontrol.

In the arc of history, women haven’t had it so good. Just biologically, there are the crises of pregnancy, the miscarriages and the risks of maternal, fetal and infant mortality. Reproductive-health ...

Judging by how commonly birth control is practiced in the United States, it ought to rank among the least controversial of subjects. In surveys, ninety-nine per cent of women of reproductive age ...

In “The Icon and the Idealist,” Stephanie Gorton tells the story of two women who fought a patriarchal system — and each other. By Clara Bingham Clara Bingham’s most recent book is “The Movement: How ...

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Since the approval of the first birth control pill in the 1960s, millions of women have relied on hormonal contraceptives to prevent unintended pregnancies, regulate periods and manage other health ...