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…anti-science, functionally illiterate Left. The Supreme Court just banned birth control forever. Male justices just imprisoned women across America. If you don’t buy my stuff for me, it means you…

…parental activity more stressful than throwing a children’s birthday party.” If you find your child’s birthday more stressful than decisions about his health, education, moral training, and general direction in…

When Democrats accuse Republicans of opposing “access” to birth control, what they really mean is that Republicans oppose forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for birth control or that Republicans…

Is chemical birth control causing miscarriages of already-conceived children? What about breaking your uterus for good? Let’s review the three ways chemical birth control works (OB/GYN Donna Harrison goes into…

…people think that it’s acceptable to lecture me on birth control and sterilization, or how we “need” to not have any more children. They also seem to think it’s appropriate…

…rules, resulting in about 90% of physician fees being covered by government or contractual controls. The lessons of price control There is general agreement amongst economists that if price controls…

…good Catholic family. The only form of birth control we use is my physique, but, like every other method of birth control short of abstinence, it is not 100 percent…

…immediately following birth. Since I was pretty busy during childbirth, I want to have a chance to fully appreciate this miracle later. Childbirth is a blur, and with these photos…

…sex but are seeking pregnancy or already pregnant. Many people who use birth control do not do so effectively. The pregnancy prevention rate of birth-control pills used consistently and correctly…

…control do not do so effectively. The pregnancy prevention rate of birth-control pills used consistently and correctly is 99 percent. For that small portion who correctly used birth control but…

…and legal abortion about actually the fight is now including access to birth control,” she said. “We’re at a record low for teenage pregnancy … That didn’t happen without a…

…When I was in high school, I started going to Planned Parenthood for birth control and health care. I was open with them about my risk factors for birth control:…

…birth control being used to control women. Women who are willing and able to seek true autonomy over their reproductive lives would do better to learn a method of fertility…

…Birth Control An example of just this kind of coercive pro-natal policy comes from neighboring North Korea, one of the most rigidly controlled countries on earth. Dictator Kim Jong-un, worried…

…to birth control (which is a toxic group 1 carcinogen), improving the foster care system and adoption services, promoting women’s health care in rural areas, and restricting Americans’ Second Amendment…

…to risk an unwanted pregnancy, why wouldn’t she just use birth control? Modern birth control is possibly the greatest invention of the last century, and I am very grateful for…

…Hobby Lobby’s unwillingness to pay for four forms of birth control – Plan B, Ella, and two IUDs – for their employees leads to all of us having to pay…

Byron York has a comprehensive piece on the welcome Republican effort to end the birth control wars, a push for access begun by Bobby Jindal and now embraced by an…

…election day, according to reporters covering the race. Udall, who didn’t even break 46 percent of the vote, was ousted by Gardner. Even Sandra Fluke Sandra Fluke, the birth control…

…of the Democratic Party’s most ardent supporters, that has opposed over-the-counter birth control. Why? Well, birth control is sort of a loss-leader for the billion-dollar company. Their business model depends…

…women access to birth control. First of all, employers can’t deny women access to birth control. It can be found, often without prescription, at any CVS, Walgreens, or even a…

…conversation toward confiscation. Cooke, of course, is right. When gun control advocates say they want Australian gun control laws in the United States, what they are really saying is that…

…in the target counties. The authors break out what they call “high-risk births”—that is, births to girls and women under age 25, unmarried, with less than a high school education—by…

…unplanned, unattended out-of-hospital births. Meanwhile, planned, midwife-attended home births boast a very low risk of infant mortality (0.35 per 1,000 births in one study), comparable to that in a hospital…

…the 14th Amendment means that all persons born on American soil, other than the children of diplomats are American citizens by birth—hence “birthright.” (Native Americans who were born on tribal…

…abortion.” Birth control pioneer Marie Stopes said, “A large number of the opponents of birth control deliberately confuse birth control with abortion. I suppose it is all right for me…

…is because of a lack of access to birth control, but Planned Parenthood is the organization supposedly providing this demographic birth control access. In other words, the City Pages hit,…

…American Birth Control League “appeared focused primarily on birth control but in reality [was] closely aligned with the broader eugenics movement.” Cargill discovered that textbooks are not just selectively omitting…

…of health. The Pill Doesn’t Promote Good Health On the birth control pill, a woman does not have a true cycle. The monthly bleeding that occurs is called a withdrawal…

After news broke that the Trump administration had greatly expanded a religious-based exemption to Obamacare’s abortifacient and birth control mandate, which requires all health insurance users to pay for the…

…not entitled to claim the birthright citizenship provided in the 1866 Act. After citing various cases that seem to allow birthright citizenship and showing that they, indeed, do not, Eastman…

As anyone who has given birth and joined the mommy wars over the last decade will tell you, the politics of birth are fraught. There’s the crowd in favor of…

…Eliminating the Stigma Against Birth Mothers My birth mother’s situation is not anomalous. According to the Child Welfare Information Gateway’s 2013 factsheet on the Impact of Adoption on Birth Parents,…

…as a parent of just how out of control you really are. The resurgence of midwives, doulas, home births, and taking back natural birth as an option isn’t to oppress…

…of birth control pills and IUDs. Maybe some do; sometimes conservatives can sound like they’re filled with authoritarian streaks and high on controlling other people’s lives. But in reality, many…

…course, the assumption underlying Richards’ praise of the pill is that women have no control over their reproduction apart from hormonal birth control. Babies would just be popping out right…