The pill helped give birth to modern America. Known by one simple word, the revolutionary oral contraceptive — approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 66 years ago — didn’t just prevent innu ...

Snopes debunked a near-identical quote attributed to Sanger in 2015. At that time, social media users claimed Sanger called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nine New Mexico women are suing the makers and distributors of a long-acting injectable form of birth control which has been ...

The U.S. birth rate declined again in 2025 as births among teenagers kept falling, while rates for women 30 and older edged ...

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Much of the pain in our social and family relations originates in a deeper part of the body politic. Reverting to ...

Within two years of its initial distribution, more than a million American women were taking it. Monumental social change ...

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On May 9, 1960, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first oral contraceptive for use as birth control. The development of the Pill took a long time. It wasn’t the work ...

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), who is running to succeed retiring Sen. Joni Ernst (R), is pushing to expand access to birth control as the race for the open Senate seat heats up. The Iowa congresswoman ...

When I was twenty-two, I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). Though I experienced symptoms for years, it wasn’t until I went a full year without getting a period that I realized I ...

The most commonly used and prescribed birth control pill in the U.S. was classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the World Health Organization (WHO) as carcinogenic. In ...