Kristan Hawkins is not what you might call a unifying figure. The founder and leader of Students for Life of America, a grassroots anti-abortion network, Hawkins travels to college campuses for ...

An estimated 250 million women worldwide are believed to use some form of hormonal contraception. (JLco) Julia Amaral - stock.adobe.com This could be a tough pill to swallow. Scientists in Denmark ...

Contraceptive implants and IUDs are very effective in preventing pregnancy — nearly 100 percent, statistics show. A new federal survey finds many more women are making this choice than did a decade ...

Birth control in the US right now is full of contradictions.

For years, preventing pregnancy in the US has meant choosing between the lesser of several annoyances: remembering a daily ...

According to posts on TikTok, hormonal birth control can cause a nearly unlimited list of ailments: Depression, irreversible infertility, acne, destruction of the gut biome, weight gain, balding, and ...

Using hormonal birth control methods, such as "the pill," may increase users' risk of blood clots, strokes and heart attacks, a new study has found. However, even then, a person's overall risk of ...

Separating fact from fiction around the pill. Birth control is used by millions of women but the questions around it are never ending for women -- from whether it will cause cancer or help prevent ...

If you're concerned about gaining weight while on birth control, you're not alone. Many women choose to avoid hormonal birth control methods or go off of them altogether because they believe the ...