Birth Control

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  • Accidental babies

    In Colorado, 75 percent of teen pregnancies are unintended. What should we be doing to help?
  • No more periods, period.

    Will contraceptives do away with menstruation?
  • A women-friendly Wal-Mart?

    Wal-Mart puts its emergency contraception policy down on paper.
  • Costly contraceptive ruling

    Court says health plan's failure to cover birth control isn't discrimination.
  • I got pregnant with Plan B -- now I need a Plan C!

    We want kids but we're not sure we're ready yet -- should we go for it, or abort?
  • Plan B: Budget cuts

    Is this the beginning of the end for the Office of Women's Health?
  • What else we're reading

    Baristas in leg warmers, criticism for Baby Einstein Co., Durham prosecutor Mike Nifong in hot water again, and more.
  • Medical news roundup

    The FDA mulls a return to the hormone-heavy birth control pills of yore. Plus: Women's plasma is no good for transfusions!
  • Chipping away at reproductive rights in Ohio

    A new law prohibits the use of state funds -- including Medicaid -- for abortions or abortion-related services.
  • The Pill -- now more delicious

    Today: chewable, flavored pills. Tomorrow: a yummy gel center?
  • Keroack is here to stay

    The Health and Human Services Department defends putting an anti-contraception activist in charge of hundreds of millions in family-planning funds.
  • What else we're reading: Health news roundup

    Breast cancer gene mutations, cola and osteoporosis, male birth control options and more!
  • Blame birth control for ... well, everything

    Conference activists: "Contraception ushered in widespread promiscuity, divorce, sexually transmitted diseases, single parent households and abortion."
  • Ortho-McUpdate

    Birth control manufacturer retracts huge price hike; publicly funded clinics exit panic mode.
  • Michigan small businesses must cover birth control

    The state's Civil Rights Commission finds that small businesses that provide health insurance must cover birth control.
  • A bitter pill to swallow

    Major birth control manufacturer Ortho-McNeil hikes its prices, and publicly funded clinics are reeling.
  • Joe's fall from grace

    Lieberman, the Democrats' man of faith, is now running on bad faith.
  • FDA: Teens? What teens?

    Perhaps we should trust the agency's commitment to OTC Plan B about as much as it trusts minors to make responsible decisions.
  • What does Bush really think about birth control?

    If responsible adults want to prevent conception, well, then it's OK.
  • The children they gave away

    In the decades between World War II and Roe v. Wade, 1.5 million young women were secretly sent to homes for unwed mothers and coerced into giving their babies up for adoption. Now their stories are finally being told.
  • The battle to ban birth control

    Using bogus health facts to scare women about the "dangers" of contraception, a fledgling movement fights for a culture in which sex = procreation.
  • Think your birth control will always be covered? Think again

    The Senate discusses a bill that would wreak havoc on women's insurance coverage.
  • Repeat after me: Plan B is not abortion

    Plan B is not abortion, Plan B is not abortion ...
  • In Michigan, birth control for all

    The state will allot $183 million from Medicaid to provide family planning services to the uninsured.
  • Should you IUD?

    The once-controversial contraceptive deserves a second look.
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