What’s at stake in the HHS decision around the IOM recommendations on contraception? First, the health and rights of women who will benefit from easier access to contraception. And second, the IOM’s action draws attention to the extent to which contraception has become yet another front in the nation’s unending culture war.
One man could protect North Carolina women from the new Woman's Right to Know Law. He chose not to. Activists are making him a target. This is why I think they're wrong.
Today a groundbreaking bill was introduced in Congress with a first-ever policy approach that combines teen dating violence prevention and teen pregnancy prevention in communities of color.
When my mom knew my birth control was not only preventing "changes in my mood" but also the chance that I could get pregnant, she stopped paying for my birth control; she said, “I am not supporting your habit.”
