Last year, Gov. Kathy Hochul, lawmakers and reproductive health advocates celebrated the approval of a new law that made birth control available without a prescription. The state officially authorized ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated July 13, 2023, to reflect the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a nonprescription birth control pill. For the first time, people in the United ...

Time magazine's recent report finds a new form of reproductive control –– birth control coercion. (Photo: Adobe Stock) The publication’s recent report finds a new form of reproductive control — birth ...

Cheap, easy birth control is arriving in the United States. The country's first over-the-counter birth control pill "will soon become the most effective birth-control method available without a doctor ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and ...

In many parts of the world, women support themselves and their families by tending crops and animals. Their agricultural livelihoods make them especially vulnerable to the frequent and intense ...

Colleen Renee Lis has heard people say: "Go out and buy every female member of your family Plan B for Christmas this year.” “That might truly be what I do," she said. Plan B, the morning-after pill ...