Contraception is often used to prevent pregnancies and manage menstrual cycles—which is exactly why Sandra Somarakis, now 61, and Nicole Ryan, 60, chose it for over a decade.…
Read more Women say birth control shot caused brain tumors—”it completely changed me”For the first time, Coloradans have a clear picture of where they can go for sometimes-controversial health services such as abortion, gender-affirming care or medical aid-in-dying. In much…
Read more Most Colorado counties lack access to aid-in-dying, abortion or gender-affirming care at hospitalsLiving in a state with legal medical marijuana could mean you’re more likely to have sex, according to a study published in the Journal of Health Economics. On…
Read more Legal Medical Marijuana Leads To More SexCNN — While the fate of mifepristone, one of two drugs used for medication abortions, is in the hands of the US Supreme Court, the drug continues to…
Read more How a medication abortion, also known as an ‘abortion pill,’ works | CNNAbout 150 million women around the world take the pill, mostly for birth control but also to regulate periods or reduce acne. The combined (estrogen and progesterone) pill…
Read more “Did my pill cause cancer?” Women describe how the pill changed their livesIt can still be incredibly difficult for U.S. women to get access to the right birth control—but last week, President Biden issued an executive order that could finally…
Read more Can President Biden’s executive order help American women get better birth control?CNN — Advisers for the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday in support of making the birth-control pill Opill available over-the-counter, saying the benefits outweigh…
Read more FDA advisers vote unanimously in support of over-the-counter birth-control pill | CNNCNN — Iowa’s Attorney General has paused funding for emergency contraception and abortions for sexual assault victims, according to an email Iowa’s Coalition Against Sexual Assault received that…
Read more Iowa’s attorney general has paused funding for sexual assault victims’ Plan B and abortions | CNNNew York CNN — One maker said it is responding to high demand for the morning-after pill, after the US Supreme Court last year ended a constitutional right…
Read more Morning after pill brand speeds up retail access, doubles supply per pack | CNN BusinessMarch 30, 2023 — A federal judge in Texas on Thursday struck down the preventive services mandate of the Affordable Care Act, ruling that the need to provide these…
Read more HIV Infections Could Spike After Ruling on Affordable Care Act: ExpertsA version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — The Wild West of…
Read more 19th century chastity law endangers 21st century abortion medicine | CNN PoliticsCNN — The Biden administration wants to make it easier for women to access birth control at no cost under the Affordable Care Act, reversing Trump-era rules that…
Read more First on CNN: Biden administration to strengthen Obamacare contraceptive mandate in proposed rule | CNN PoliticsCNN — Free condoms are now available to young people under the age of 26 at French pharmacies as part of what French President Emmanuel Macron has called…
Read more France offers free condoms to young people and free emergency contraception to all women | CNNCNN — A few blocks from the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, America’s battle over abortion is playing out under one roof. On one side of a…
Read more The crisis pregnancy center next door: How taxpayer money intended for poor families is funding a growing anti-abortion movement | CNN
