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- WellnessKerry Justich
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.
- WellnessMarie Claire
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.
- WellnessDominique Mosbergen
Idaho Senator Rants At Students Who Drove 300 Miles To Meet Him
An Idaho Republican state senator has been labeled a “bully” after ranting at college students who traveled hundreds of miles to discuss a birth control bill with lawmakers.
- BeautyElise Solé
Support builds for teen who may be expelled for Planned Parenthood sticker on her laptop
A high school student may be expelled if she doesn’t remove a Planned Parenthood sticker from her laptop. Social media is backing a teen who faces school expulsion if she doesn’t remove a Planned Parenthood sticker from her laptop. According to local paper Greenwich Time, Kate Murray, a sophomore at the all-girls private Catholic school Sacred Heart Greenwich, decorated her laptop with stickers, one of which reads, “I stand with Planned Parenthood.” On Tuesday, head of school Pamela Hayes issued an ultimatum: Remove the sticker or leave school, either immediately or at the end of the academic year.
- WellnessRefinery29
Notre Dame Made Controversial Changes To Its Birth Control Coverage Policy — Again
Just months after going back and forth over whether it should stop offering birth control coverage in its health plans, the University of Notre Dame will make two big changes to its healthcare policy. The switch was announced in a letter sent by Father John Jenkins, the school president, on Wednesday. According to Jenkins, Notre Dame has decided to ban third-party providers from including coverage of "abortion-inducing" contraceptives in its insurance plans and the school will also start offering coverage for "simple contraceptives" in its self-funded health plan.
- WellnessJennifer Gerson Uffalussy
Birth control delivery services are changing the way women manage their reproductive health
An increase in the number of birth control delivery services is bridging important gaps in women's reproductive health.
- WellnessMandy Velez
A D.C. bill is moving forward that would allow women to get birth control without an Rx
If passed, D.C. would join Oregon and California in allowing women to get birth control without a doctor's prescription.
- WellnessJennifer Gerson Uffalussy
Study links breast cancer to birth control — here's what you need to know
A new study on birth control pills shows a slightly higher risk of breast cancer among women taking hormonal contraception, but it does not control for other possible factors correlated with the disease.
- BeautyKorin Miller
'I found the right pill': Woman's before-and-after-birth-control photos showing off her clear skin are incredible
"It's so specific for everyone and I tried many different things but honestly it was just a fluke that I found something that worked," wrote Ellie Mahan.
- WellnessRefinery29
Why Birth Control Is SO Important—& It's Not Just About Sex
How is it that in 2017, we have total control over what our bodies look like but not what our bodies do? The Trump administration will now allow any employer to claim religious or moral objection to providing birth control to its employees. The move rolls back an Obama-era requirement that employers provide FDA-approved contraception at no cost.
- WellnessNicole Pajer
Add Jaime King to the list of women here to remind you birth control is basic health care
Birth control doesn’t just prevent pregnancy — many women use the pill to regulate menstrual symptoms or moderate the pain associated with gynecologic disorders. Jaime King is one of them, and she wants lawmakers to know what she now knows.
- WellnessJennifer Gerson Uffalussy
Women are sending President Trump their birth control bills
Kristen Bell, Gloria Steinem, Kate Walsh, and Cecily Strong are just some of the boldface names of women who are sending Donald Trump their birth control bills.
- BeautyAlexandra Mondalek
Tess Holliday says her IUD caused her skin to break out
Model Tess Holliday posted a photo on Instagram that revealed the struggle she's enduring using a different form of birth control, one that's negatively affecting her skin.
- WellnessJennifer Gerson Uffalussy
Exclusive: Majority of female small business owners say birth control key to professional success
And this belief cuts across party lines, with majorities of Republican, Democratic, and independent businesswomen all favoring expanded birth control access.
- BeautyAlex Eriksen
States and organizations are gearing up to battle Trump over birth control
Democratic attorneys general in Massachusetts and California have filed federal lawsuits against the Trump administration in response to rollbacks of contraceptive mandates in the Affordable Care Act.
WellnessReutersTrump undermines U.S. birth control coverage requirement
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration on Friday undermined requirements under the Obamacare law that employers provide insurance to cover women's birth control, keeping a campaign pledge that pleased his conservative Christian supporters. New rules from the Department of Health and Human Services will let businesses or non-profit organizations lodge religious or moral objections to obtain an exemption from the law's mandate that employers provide contraceptives coverage in health insurance with no co-payment.
- WellnessJennifer Gerson Uffalussy
Trump administration guts Obamacare's birth control coverage mandate
Under the ACA, 62 million American women were able to access birth control without any copay under their insurance plan. A new rule from the Trump administration undoes this part of the preventive care requirement of the ACA.
WellnessAssociated PressBirth control: Trump expands opt-out for workplace insurance
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women by claiming religious or moral objections, issuing new rules Friday that take another step in rolling back the Obama health care law.
- BeautyPeople
Nikki Reed on Deciding to Start a Family: Husband Ian Somerhalder 'Threw Out All My Birth Control Pills'
Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder on Pregnancy and Birth
- BeautyElise Solé
NFL star Antonio Cromartie welcomes his 14th child despite vasectomy
"We are 100 percent done! Absolutely, positively done with having kids," Antonio’s wife, Terricka Cromartie, told Us magazine. "We've been blessed with these guys, but adding to it, I think, would kill us both!"
- BeautyKerry Justich
'SNL' alum Vanessa Bayer will make you laugh out loud about birth control
Through a series of online videos, Bayer is helping to decipher between fact and fiction when it comes to contraception.
- BeautyScience of Us
The Pill Causing Weight Gain Is the Myth That Won’t Go Away
Why so many still believe birth control is to blame for those extra pounds.
- BeautyJennifer Gerson Uffalussy
Walgreens Accused of Sex Discrimination After Pharmacist Refuses to Fill Prescription Due to ‘Personal Beliefs’
A omplaint alleges that a Walgreens in Albuquerque, N.M., discriminated against a female patient by refusing to fill a prescription related to birth control.
BeautyJennifer Gerson UffalussyThe Sneaky Detail in Trump’s Leaked Birth Control Rule That Would Restrict Access Even Further
Many of the programs that would provide access for women denied coverage would have their funding slashed by the Trump budget and ACA-replacement plan.
- BeautyJennifer Gerson Uffalussy
6 Threats to Women’s Health Baked Into Trump’s New Budget
"Donald Trump's budget makes clear his view that women and children are at the bottom of the barrel," says the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
