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…said, “This bill is a sham and an insult to women… It would give women fewer birth control options and force women to pay twice for their birth control.” In…

…constitutional questions, however. Birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. That birthright is protected no less for children of undocumented persons than for descendants of Mayflower passengers. The Fourteenth…

…or sex education. Also, nonmarital birth rates have continued to go up despite increased sex education and access to birth control. There has been a leveling off of births among…

…would “allow insurance-covered birth-control pills to be sold over the counter.” Planned Parenthood piled on, flatly claiming Democrat Patty Murray’s proposal “would make the birth control pill available over-the-counter.” These…

…approach to childbirth has understandably frightened many women out of starting families. Fortunately, birthing centers and the midwives who staff them are taking the trauma of childbirth and restoring it…

…the CDC adds mistimed births and unwanted births. Remember, the possible error only affected the number of births reported as unwanted, not the number reported as mistimed. The CDC statisticians…

…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…

…fight over birth control. As far as I’m aware, nobody is trying to ban birth control. The real fight is whether the government should mandate that health insurance plans include…

…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…

…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…

…in rural areas are permitted (in theory) to have three children. This new policy provided officials with a legal basis to crack down on so-called “illegal birth” — a birth…

…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…

…presidency and “a right-wing Supreme Court…could erode birth control rights, and possibly even ban birth control,” so the IUD is a woman’s “only hope” for avoiding the “disaster” of an…

…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…

…pick the birth control method that works for her.” (Women could still talk to their doctors if birth control were OTC, but oh, well.) Lisa Wirthman, a columnist at the…

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…

…me about birthing her two oldest children in the early 1970s, just before “natural childbirth” became the trend. She was put under general anesthesia and was completely unconscious when they…

…Priests for Life objected to all birth control, Kavanaugh was characterizing “all types of birth control as ‘abortion inducing drugs.’” Nonsense. It is true that in Priests for Life the…

…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,…

When the Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act in 2007, abortionists who had been insisting partial-birth abortions were necessary to protect women’s health instantly stopped doing them….

…Happy Birthday, Mr. President @BarackObama — Wendell Pierce (@WendellPierce) August 4, 2014   Happy Birthday, President Obama! pic.twitter.com/WCBp3eI1AE — TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 4, 2014   Happy birthday to my good…

…The American Medical Association was quick to point out that this would affect birth certificates only, not the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth, meaning a baby’s sex would still…

…surprised by the study, but they should not be. Hormonal birth control also has established physical health risks. Given what we now know about the health dangers of hormonal birth…

…months before her death, Alex received a birth-control prescription from a local Planned Parenthood clinic. The generic combination pill, Levora, is marketed as one of the “safer” birth control pills…

…birth control and abortion. To fix the problem, greater birth control access was the appropriate measure. Why the Akerlof Argument Is Wrong Here is the Akerlof argument. 1) Birth control…

…illegal aliens—a point often lost in the debate over birthright citizenship. When advocates for immigration reform say the United States must end “birthright citizenship,” they are talking about citizenship for…

…over birth control, for instance, could have been avoided by simply making birth control available over the counter instead of dependent upon a prescription (with the prescription itself largely dependent…

…Housewife of Hell (@HousewifeOfHell) May 6, 2014 Happy birthday, happy birthday. Happy birthday to meeee. Learning from my mistakes? No, I’m just perfecting them. — Sandra (@Sanbel11) May 15, 2016…

…the time of the infant’s birth with an “assignment.” A child’s sex is no more assigned at the time of birth than a table is assigned its “tableness” at the…

…the same reporters and published at the same time, aimed at “Debunking common birth-control misconceptions.” The first article laments that women are increasingly ditching hormonal birth control linked to cancer…

…birthright citizenship, heated debates from both the left and right on how to interpret the 14th Amendment, and whether the president has the legal authority to end birthright citizenship with…

…organs, or confused chromosomes, is not a third gender or nonbinary.) This Isn’t the Purpose of a Birth Certificate A birth certificate, or death certificate for that matter, doesn’t record…

…say Birthright is right-wing or too pro-Israel. They say the program does not expose participants to what they call the “Occupation.” While Birthright strives to give participants a memorable, educational…

…the sole burden of birth control off of women.” Cosmopolitan writer Laura Beck claimed the men quit because the birth control was giving them mood swings, writing, “Welcome to the…

…fertility. More to the point, many unplanned births are in fact desired. I was an unplanned birth, and my conception massively inconvenienced my parents, who were living abroad. My birth…

…seen doctors in three different states pushing birth control like those grinning, hipster-mustachioed, pill-bowl-holding gatekeepers who hover outside of raves—birth control is not candy. Side Effects Can Take Over Your…