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The FDA Approved a Digital Birth Control Method. Should There Be an App for That?

Martha Kempner

You'll likely do more work than your smartphone with the new Natural Cycles app.

This Week in Sex: You Might Want to Skip These Vaginal ‘Enhancements’ and Yoni Beer

Martha Kempner

We're fine with not having jade eggs in our bodies. And equally fine with regular yeast and hops in our brews.

Lack of Doctor-Patient Talks Could Be Driving Skyrocketing STD Rates

Auditi Guha

Coupled with sobering CDC data, a new report indicates women who are sexually active don't always talk to their clinicians honestly about sex and STD risks, and vice versa.

New Book Details Harms of Evangelical ‘Purity’ Movement and the Obstacle to Change

Elizabeth Shively

In 'Pure,' Klein tells the stories of women wrestling with anxiety, sexual dysfunction, crises of religious identity, and even a kind of religious-based PTSD.

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Resisting the Rage That Paralyzes: Rebecca Solnit Writes of Organized Anger

Eleanor J. Bader

Inertia is understandable these days. But Standing Rock's sweeping coalition and today's activists' use of the past should give—dare we say it?—some hope.

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Trump Administration Dramatically Shortens Funding Period for Title X Grants

Katelyn Burns & Tennessee Republicans Ask for Trump’s Help in Defunding Planned Parenthood

Providers say the Trump administration is undermining much-needed care for the people who need it most.

[PHOTO: Common school supplies such as pencils and rulers on a desk with a flier telling students about free condoms available from a school nurse.]

#MeToo Leaves Its Mark From State Capitols to Classrooms

Martha Kempner

At the same time the abstinence-only education is resurging, some legislators, school officials, and teachers are using this cultural moment to bolster classroom offerings that deal with consent and healthy boundaries.

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I’m a Student Who’s Been Demanding to Meet Collins and Murkowski About Kavanaugh—Because I Know What’s at Stake

Angela Maske

Ultimately, Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is about how his rulings will affect people all over the country, and young people in particular. Every senator must recognize that.

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Supreme Court Won’t Enter Fight Over LGBTQ Foster Care Placements—But Gorsuch and Alito Want To (Updated)

Jessica Mason Pieklo

The one-page order keeps in place a lower court ruling that the city of Philadelphia can require social service agencies with city contracts to comply with nondiscrimination laws.

Tennessee Republicans Ask for Trump’s Help in Defunding Planned Parenthood

Teddy Wilson

“State politicians, in lock step with the Trump-Pence administration, are bending the rules to take away women’s health and rights any way they can,” said Danielle Wells of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

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