Contraception

The Trump administration has tweaked the rule so employers who object on moral or religious grounds to providing birth control can get an exemption. Workers who want birth control will have to find it elsewhere. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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Defunding Plan B for rape victims is not pro-life

Tiana Lowe Doescher · April 14, 2023 7:12 pm

Pharmacist Simon Gorelikov holds a generic emergency contraceptive at the Health First Pharmacy in Boston on May 2, 2013.

More universities offer subsidized emergency contraceptives at vending machines

Abigail Adcox · February 18, 2023 9:00 am

Biden administration moves to rescind moral exemptions for birth control mandate

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Biden administration moves to rescind moral exemptions for birth control mandate

Abigail Adcox · January 30, 2023 3:19 pm

This undated image made available by Teva Women's Health shows the packaging for their Plan B One-Step (levonorgestrel) tablet, one of the brands known as the "morning-after pill." In a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration, a federal judge ruled Friday that age restrictions on over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill are "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable" and must end within 30 days. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman of New York means consumers of any age could buy emergency contraception without a prescription _ instead of women first having to prove they're 17 or older, as they do today. And it could allow Plan B One-Step to move out from behind pharmacy counters to the store counters. (AP Photo/Teva Women's Health)

George Washington University installs ‘morning-after’ pill vending machine on campus

Cami Mondeaux · January 30, 2023 3:04 pm

House-passed ‘Right to Contraception’ bill creates problems, doesn’t solve them

House-passed ‘Right to Contraception’ bill creates problems, doesn’t solve them

Edmund F. Haislmaier and Melanie Israel · October 31, 2022 12:00 am

A one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills is displayed in Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 26, 2016. A drug company is seeking U.S. approval for the first-ever birth control pill that women could buy without a prescription.

FDA schedules meeting to discuss over-the-counter birth control pill

Abigail Adcox · September 13, 2022 4:05 pm

Texas governor after abortion ban: Rape victims can prevent pregnancy with Plan B

Jenny Goldsberry · September 3, 2022 9:08 pm

Democratic contraception bill faces Senate trouble over religious freedom

Democratic contraception bill faces Senate trouble over religious freedom

Cassidy Morrison · July 22, 2022 12:00 am

A one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills is displayed in this file photo.

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Democrats’ contraception bill would force taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood

Katelynn Richardson · July 21, 2022 8:34 pm

Operating room technician Nikki Jordan sterilizes abortion equipment at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Jackson)

More women seeking sterilization post-Roe reversal

Cassidy Morrison · July 21, 2022 7:56 pm

House passes contraception bill that GOP argues violates religious freedoms

Cassidy Morrison · July 21, 2022 3:48 pm

Margot Riphagen of New Orleans, La., wears a birth control pills costume as she protests in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, as the court heard oral arguments in the challenges of President Barack Obama's health care law requirement that businesses provide their female employees with health insurance that includes access to contraceptives. Supreme Court justices are weighing whether corporations have religious rights that exempt them from part of the new health care law that requires coverage of birth control for employees at no extra charge.

House Democrats to vote this week on codifying right to contraception

Cassidy Morrison · July 18, 2022 9:21 pm