Emergency contraception is supposed to be available to teens, but pharmacists are telling them they’re too young.
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Scientists Working on the Male Pill that Could Make Vasectomies a Thing of the Past
The Holy Grail of male contraception is a pill that would be 100% effective in preventing pregnancy but leave a man free to enjoy a full sex life.
Judge Permanently Blocks Oklahoma Law Restricting Emergency Contraception
An Oklahoma judge ruled late Thursday that a state law designed to make it more difficult to access emergency contraception in the state is unconstitutional, and permanently blocked the state from enforcing it.
Supreme Court Grants Temporary Reprieve From Contraceptive Mandate
The Obama administration cannot enforce the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage requirements against a Catholic nuns’ order for the time being, if the nuns tell the government they object to providing that coverage, the Supreme Court ruled Friday afternoon.
Administration: Birth Control Doesn’t Directly Violate Company’s Religious Rights
The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most employers provide contraception in their health plans, even if a company’s owners have religious objections.
NuvaRing, Yaz, And Third-Generation Contraception: Is The Medical Establishment Failing To Protect Women?
Monday, Vanity Fair published an article questioning why a potentially lethal product, NuvaRing contraception, remains available for sale. Yet the real question is: Why do so many doctors, who fully understand the potential health risks, continue to prescribe life-threatening contraceptives to women?
Spermicides Out, Pills In: 8 Contraception Trends You Probably Didn’t Know
How many people go to family planning clinics, who are they and what forms of contraception do they leave with? New numbers show seismic shifts in people’s contraception choices.
Women Wrongly Believe They Can’t Get Pregnant
More than half of unintended pregnancies in America happen to the 10 percent of women who are not using contraception. A new survey of 50 women seeking abortions from the Guttmacher Institute reveals the psychology behind not wanting to be pregnant but not doing anything to not get pregnant. Most participants believed they were at a low risk of pregnancy for a variety of reasons requiring various degrees of magical thinking.
Supreme Court Likely to Rule on Abortion Laws, Contraception Mandate in New Term
The Supreme Court’s new session will almost certainly see a ruling on state power to limit the use of some abortion-inducing drugs and one on Arizona’s law outlawing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The Court is also expected to rule on the health law’s mandate that almost all employer health plans cover contraception.
Contraception Mandate Reaches Justices
The bruising fight in Congress over President Obama’s Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — may spill over into the U.S. Supreme Court where a challenge to the act’s contraception mandate is finally on the horizon.