Time magazine's recent report finds a new form of reproductive control –– birth control coercion. (Photo: Adobe Stock) The publication’s recent report finds a new form of reproductive control — birth ...

This pattern, reproductive-justice experts say, reflects the race and class biases plaguing the U.S. medical system and extends a sordid and long-standing history of America’s attempts to engineer who ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated July 13, 2023, to reflect the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a nonprescription birth control pill. For the first time, people in the United ...

Cheap, easy birth control is arriving in the United States. The country's first over-the-counter birth control pill "will soon become the most effective birth-control method available without a doctor ...

In the countries where MSI Reproductive Choices works, meeting the contraceptive needs of adolescents who want to avoid pregnancy comes with a unique set of challenges. Adolescents tell us that they ...

In many parts of the world, women support themselves and their families by tending crops and animals. Their agricultural livelihoods make them especially vulnerable to the frequent and intense ...

Colleen Renee Lis has heard people say: "Go out and buy every female member of your family Plan B for Christmas this year.” “That might truly be what I do," she said. Plan B, the morning-after pill ...

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. In 1860, the American Medical Association launched a campaign to convince state legislatures to prohibit abortions. Until 1973's Roe v.