What’s the long-term impact of access to birth control and family planning? The economist Martha J. Bailey pulled together decades of data and research on families surrounding two major policy changes in the United States: laws banning the sale of contraceptives and their repeal, and the expansion of federal funding for local family-planning clinics during the Johnson and Nixon administrations.
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On World Contraception Day, Here Are Five Facts You Should Remember About Birth Control
Every year, a group of medical experts and non-governmental organizations join forces to highlight the importance of birth control and ultimately raise awareness about the need for robust family planning programs.
The Truth About the Pill
A new book argues that hormonal birth control is sexist and dangerous. Don’t believe it.
What You Need to Know About Vasectomies
Every couple reaches a point in their lives when children are no longer a desired option, and permanent birth control becomes a hot topic. For decades, women have endured the hormonal sways of the pill or endured invasive and sometimes painful procedures, such as a tubal ligation to inhibit pregnancy.
Can Fertility Clinics Deliver On Promises?
Just as birth control has given women the freedom to delay having children, reproductive medicine has allowed many to have babies after they thought it was too late.But in recent years, there have been more questions about whether the fertility industry can deliver on its promises.
IVF, Embryos, and Choices
Undeniably, we all make choices about our bodies — who we share them with and the steps we take to get pregnant (or not) — and we all live with the consequences. I knew this, yet I was still envious of my friends who simply stopped their birth control, waited a few months, and then headed to the doctor to learn what magic had taken place. They didn’t have to struggle with the endless array of decisions that were plunked rather unceremoniously in front of my husband and me in the form of a ream of paperwork we had to complete once we decided to proceed with IVF.
Obamacare’s Confusing Birth Control Rules
Listen to the political rhetoric around the contraception mandate, and you might think that employers must provide women with free birth control of every kind.
You Won’t Get Pregnant if You Use the Pill, Right? Wrong.
I used the pill for a decade before I began having children in my early 30s. It seemed like a foolproof method of birth control.After having two children fairly close together, I felt that my family was complete. So imagine my surprise when I turned up pregnant in the spring of 2011 — while on the pill.
Experimental Male Birth Control Puts Gold in Your Testes
What would you do for a long-lasting, but reversible male birth control? It’d be something you could get done once in a while, like some forms of hormonal birth control for women, instead of having to remember every time you have sex, like you do with condoms.
Courts to Hear Birth Control Mandate Lawsuits
Obamacare’s birth control mandate will go before four different appeals courts over the next three weeks as private businesses that object to the policy on religious liberty grounds bring a barrage of lawsuits that opponents hope to get before the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as this fall.