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Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
Some fool who runs a dry cleaning business in Ohio decided to put “Choose Life” on their coat hangers. Yeah, coat hangers — tools sometimes used by women to self-abort when abortion isn’t legal or...
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That Was Then, This Is Now: A History of Emergency Contraception
The following guest post comes to us via Morganne Rosenhaus, community engagement coordinator for Planned Parenthood Arizona. For more than 10 years, emergency contraception has been the “poster child”...
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Let’s Talk Contraception: Emergency Contraception
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that 1 in 9 American women — 11 percent — has used the “morning-after pill.” This means that in the United States, 5.8 million...
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Mythbusting: Does Emergency Contraception Cause Abortion?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported recently that one in nine sexually active women, or 5.8 million women, has used emergency contraceptive pills, such as Plan B. Emergency...
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Let’s Talk Contraception: Is Spermicide Effective?
According to the Guttmacher Institute, 0.5 percent of all contraceptive users surveyed in 2010 relied on spermicides as their contraceptive. Although not used often, they are a part of the...
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Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
Bring out the balloons, champagne flutes, and noisemakers. Look what the cat is dragging in come 2017: MALE BIRTH CONTROL NOT IN THE FORM OF A CONDOM! (The Daily Beast) Are men treated differently...
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STD Awareness: HIV Testing
It’s often been said that young people view HIV as a chronic disease rather than the “life sentence” it was before there were effective treatments. The fact that an HIV infection can be managed with...
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Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown
Some Republicans are trying to circumvent the Affordable Care Act’s mandate for co-pay-free birth control by pushing for over-the-counter availability of the Pill. Even the American Congress of...
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Let’s Talk Contraception: Contraceptive Changes on the Horizon
The Affordable Care Act has undeniably improved women’s ability to receive preventive care that includes contraception. Insured women are now able to have any FDA-approved birth control provided to...
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No, the Morning-After Pill Is Not the Abortion Pill
The other week, I was talking to a family member about the threats to contraception access in this country, “thanks” to our new president and his fanatical administration. He thought it was ridiculous...
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Affirming the Autonomy of Indigenous Women
November is National American Indian Heritage Month. As we celebrate the positive sides of Indigenous Nations’ histories, we must acknowledge that the U.S. government has both robbed Native Americans...
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Learning About Alcohol and Drug-Related Birth Defects
The week of May 14 is Alcohol and Drug-Related Birth Defects Awareness Week. According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence: About 20% of pregnant women smoke cigarettes, 12% drink...
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Morning-After Pill Still Strong
June 20 marks the fifth anniversary of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of over-the-counter Plan B One-Step, a type of “morning-after pill” (itself a type of emergency...
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Five Things to Know About the Morning-After Pill on Its 20th Anniversary
Medication portion of PREVEN Emergency Contraceptive Kit. Photo: Smithsonian Institution In 1993, the New York Times Magazine posited that the morning-after pill might be “the best-kept contraceptive...
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