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Yahoo LifeWhitney Cummings says stigma around women's reproductive health is 'getting to the point where it's dangerous'
Multitalented comedian, filmmaker and author Whitney Cummings is stepping into a new role: activist for women’s reproductive rights.
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How birth control pills may be affecting women’s brains
A new study finds that oral contraceptives appear to change an important part of the brain, but experts say the results aren't "game-changing."
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Lucy Hale on speaking out about gun control, immigration and women’s health care: ‘It’s a scary time’
Lucy Hale says that it's a "scary time," but that won't stop her from speaking out about what's important to her, including women's health.
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CVS is facing boycotts in dispute over mail-order birth control: 'This is incredibly dangerous'
People are calling for a boycott of CVS after the drugstore giant reportedly considers cutting reimbursement coverage for mail-order birth control pills, which would hurt low-income women and those in rural areas and with disabilities.
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Tomi Lahren says she agrees with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about birth control: 'Doesn’t make me feminist'
"Never thought this would happen, but I agree with AOC," the conservative commentator admitted.
- HuffPost
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez And Ayanna Pressley Want Birth Control To Be Over-The-Counter
Several 2020 Democratic candidates signed on to a similar bill in the Senate, to make birth control available without a prescription and covered by insurance.
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Anti-Birth Control Group Reportedly Lied To Get Government Funding
The anti-abortion group Obria received Title X funding from the government despite promising "to never provide hormonal contraception nor abortion," in the words of its founder and CEO Kathleen Bravo, according to a new report by the Campaign for Accountability. The group recently got a $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Title X funds, which are meant to provide family-planning services. According to the Campaign for Accountability report, in a funding application for Texas, Obria said that its clinics would provide a "broad range of family-planning methods, including several contraception options," despite telling its supporters it wouldn't do so.
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If Title X Disappears, More Than 22 Million Women Will Live in Contraceptive Deserts
If allowed to go into effect, the “domestic gag rule” could prevent millions of women from accessing birth control.
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Signs You’re on the Wrong Birth Control Pill
The pill has been around for nearly 60 years—and it still has a frustrating list of side effects. Here are the side effects you should never put up with and how to talk to your doctor about switching.
- Cosmopolitan
Over Hormonal Birth Control? There Are (Lots of!) Other Options
Nope, it's not just condoms.
- People
Birth Control Pills Recalled Because Women Could Be Taking Placebos and Possibly Get Pregnant
Birth Control Pills Recalled Because Women Could Fall Pregnant
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More women now rely on female sterilization than the pill — experts unpack why
According to data from the CDC, close to 19 percent of women use female sterilization as birth control. Here's what you need to know about the procedure.
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'Hopelessly submerged in pain for days': What it's like to live with menstrual migraines
Menstrual migraines, which affect more than 50 percent of female migraine patients, tend to last longer and are more intense than other migraines, and they may not respond to typical therapies.
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Does hormonal birth control clear up or cause acne?
For years, dermatologists have prescribed hormonal birth control to help patients with acne. But for every group of patients that it has helped, it seems like there are plenty of others who say their skin got worse on birth control.
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Why is it so hard to make a hormonal birth control pill for men?
Women have had the Pill for nearly 60 years. Why is it so challenging to bring a safe, reversible hormonal method for men to market?
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‘The pain was so bad, I went to the ER a few times’: How birth control can work beyond pregnancy prevention
For many women, hormonal birth control can be "life-altering" when it comes to helping with health issues from endometriosis to bleeding disorders.
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Why is the Pill still being blamed for weight gain?
Tales of weight gain from birth control pills are rife, but research doesn’t back them up.
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Brett Kavanaugh called birth-control pills 'abortion-inducing drugs' — here's why that's pseudoscience
In the second-to-last day of confirmation hearings, Brett Kavanaugh equated birth control pills to "abortion-inducing drugs." An ob-gyn explains why that's problematic.
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How to find the best birth control method for you
From condoms and oral contraceptives to patches, implants, and IUDs — how to figure out which birth control method is right for you.
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Real Women On Why They Chose To Take Plan B
For our 29Rooms Chicago event, we partnered with Plan B One-Step to explore the true stories of why women use Plan B. Ahead, nine women detail their intimate, empowering, and oftentimes emotional experiences. “I love that I can get this over the counter now.
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What you need to know about Natural Cycles, the first FDA-approved pregnancy prevention app
The numbers for Natural Cycles, the first FDA-approved pregnancy prevention app, are actually better than those for hormonal birth control, which fails 9 percent of the time.
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A New Netflix Documentary Is Changing Birth Control Policies Before Its Release
A Netflix documentary is being credited with helping to get Essure, a form of birth contro l many people say has caused them serious harm, pulled from the United States market — even though the documentary hasn’t actually been released yet. The film, The Bleeding Edge, documents the forces that control the medical industry and the patients and advocates fighting for safer medications and devices. It comes from the directing and producing team behind The Hunting Ground and The Invisible War, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering.
- Allure
The History and Evolution of Birth Control in America
Everything you need to know about this revolutionary piece of health-care history.
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An IUD Complication Made My Toes Rot
Tanai Smith, a 25-year-old student and mother from Baltimore, explains how a rare intrauterine device complication led to an infection and the loss of her ovaries, uterus, and toes.
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Mom warns teens attending prom to be careful with shocking before and after photos
Nineteen-year-old Adrienne West of Indiana is warning teens to be cautious of an unexpected outcome from prom night — namely, an unplanned pregnancy. It's something she's experienced firsthand.
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Does Birth Control Really Make You Gain Weight?
Just because it happened to your sister's best friend's cousin, doesn't mean it'll happen to you.