Eden Food (you might be most familiar with their line of soy milk, Organic EdenSoy) is suing the Obama administration over the requirement that companies cover birth control in their health plans. The lawsuit is interesting mostly because Eden Food’s target demographic is the left leaning, hipster-like set. Filing a lawsuit over a topic that…
The United States government on the state and federal level is backward and archaic on women’s reproductive health. Mississippi, North Dakota, Kansas and other state legislative bodies are passing bills to derail abortions, limit access to contraception and close Planned Parenthoods. Meanwhile, France is offering the polar opposite. Women no longer have to piece together…
Sometimes it’s difficult for busy women to remember to pop a birth control pill every day. Some skip a day or two while others set daily phone reminders sure to alarm in the middle of a business meeting. But what if there were a birth control pill that could be taken hours or after sex…
Imagine this scenario: You’ve been faithfully using birth control pills for most of your adult life. You’ve never had the “oops I missed my pill” moment, but one day you’re not feeling quite right, and you decide to amuse yourself and take a pregnancy test. Positive. After 12 years of faithfully taking the pill, you’re now pregnant….
My first thought on buying car trunk birth control? Ewww. But six months later it’s more like, “Yay!!”
In a recent study that ran from 2008 to 2010, more than 9,000 women in St. Louis received free birth control. Many of these women were either poor or uninsured and were given the option to choose a form of birth control to use. Although several options of birth control were presented, the majority of…
For a year, CATCH for Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Healthcare, a program aimed to prevent teenage pregnancy quietly went unnoticed in several New York City public schools. As of last year, 13 public high schools have equipped their nurses with emergency contraception. The pills are designed to prevent a pregnancy, if used within 72 hours…
