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Here’s What An IUD Would Cost In Each State Without The ACA
Kathryn Lindsay
Jan 23, 2017
Body
New Yorkers Guaranteed Free Birth Control & Medically Necessary Abortions
Suzannah Weiss
Jan 22, 2017
Sex
9 Women On What Getting An IUD Is Really Like
Jessica Chou
Jan 19, 2017
US News
I Was One Of Those Women Who Couldn’t Afford Birth Control ...
Renee Bracey Sherman is a reproductive justice activist, abortion storyteller, and board member at NARAL Pro-Choice America. Ahead, she shares an open lett
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Renee Bracey Sherman
Entertainment News
MLB Player Matt Garza Lectures Jessica Chastain About Birth Control
Jessica Chastain and MLB player Matt Garza got into a Twitter argument over birth control on Friday. Chastain tweeted in response to a Senate vote dictatin
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Suzannah Weiss
Wellness
This Court Just Made A Landmark Decision In Defining Rape
In a world where the courts still asks sexual assault survivors what they were wearing when the incident occurred, progress often feels lost in a sea of pe
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Marquita Harris
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Health Trends
The Philippines Just Announced Big News For Reproductive Rights
In a huge move for reproductive rights, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced that the island nation would be providing reproductive health servic
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Christopher Luu
Health Trends
New York Is Fighting To Keep Birth Control Free, Even If Obamacar...
In the span of the past week alone, the GOP has moved to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) and House Speaker Paul Ryan confirmed
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Kimberly Truong
Health Trends
Planned Parenthood Says Demand For IUDs Has Gone Up 900% Since Th...
In case you still had any doubt that the presidential election has had an effect on reproductive rights, Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood,
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Kimberly Truong
Sex
Everything You Need To Know About Getting Your IUD Removed
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Kathryn Lindsay
Sex
The Pill Might Not Be Hurting Your Sex Drive After All
Those who choose to take the hormonal birth control pill know it sometimes feels like Russian roulette when it comes to the side effects. Sometimes, you fe
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Kathryn Lindsay
Food & Drinks
Wine Condoms Are The Perfect Gift For The Wine Lovers In Your Life
It's always important to practice safe drinking, especially when it comes to wine. Enter, Wine Condoms, which Cosmopolitan reports are apparently not
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Kathryn Lindsay
Movies
Planned Parenthood Founder & Birth Control Advocate Margaret Sang...
For more than a century, women have fought for their own reproductive rights and access to birth control, and now following the election, many continue to
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Morgan Baila
Sex
This IUD Ornament Will Complete Your Christmas Tree
If you're still looking for that one ornament to complete your Christmas tree this year, consider your search over. Thanks to Nasty Or Nice, you can n
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Kimberly Truong
Sex
Why Texas Health Workers Are Hanging Condoms & Lube On Trees
Sometimes, everything you need is right in front of you. For people in Travis County of Austin, Texas, that could mean literally after health workers hung
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Kathryn Lindsay
Sex
Your Birth Control Method Affects How Often You & Your Partner Ha...
The pill and other hormonal birth control methods can affect a number of things beyond just your chances of getting pregnant — including your mood, y
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Suzannah Weiss
Sex
These 30 Tweets Prove Why Access To Birth Control Is So Important
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Kimberly Truong
Health Trends
The Truth About This Questionable Side Effect Of The Birth Contro...
A version of this article originally appeared on Shape. Don't get us wrong — there are plenty of reasons to go off the pill. While your plans to
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Sara Coughlin
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Sex
Bringing Your S.O. Home For The Holidays? At Least You Don’...
Bringing your partner home for the holidays will always be fraught with some amount of awkwardness. You can only keep your boo and your family chatting abo
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Sara Coughlin
Skin Care
Exactly How An IUD Will Affect Your Skin
I broke up with the pill around the same time I broke up with my most recent ex-boyfriend. Being single, I figured, amounted to throwing my regular sex sch
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Maria Del Russo
Pop Culture
Teen Mom
Stars Talk Birth Control & Its Role In Reducing...
In case you didn't get a calendar notification, today is Thanks, Birth Control Day, an initiative from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unpla
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Hunter Harris
Body
I’ve Tried Nearly Every Kind Of Birth Control — & Here̵...
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Kate Bernyk
Sex
What To Know If You Rely On The ACA For Birth Control
Changes to our healthcare system will undoubtedly be one of the most pressing issues to come following the outcome of this week's election. Currently,
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Sarah Jacoby
Body
Should You Be Scrambling To Get An IUD Before January?
In light of Donald Trump winning the presidential election last night, many onlookers who are worried about reproductive rights and abortion access took to
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Kimberly Truong
Health Trends
Do You Live In A Contraceptive Desert?
Despite the progress we've made in making birth control more accessible, many of us are still having a hard time getting the contraceptives we need. A
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Kimberly Truong
Culture
The Woman Behind The First Birth-Control Clinic Is Now A Comic Star
Very few people leave a legacy that's still relevant 100 years later, but that's exactly what Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger did. The
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Ally Hickson
Sex
5 Sexual Barrier Options You May Want To Consider
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Charyn Pfeuffer
Sex
Why It’s A Privilege To Criticize Hormonal Birth Control
It’s been a rough few weeks for hormonal birth control. In late September, The Journal of the American Medical Association published a study demonstr
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Lux Alptraum
Health Trends
How This Self-Injectable Is Helping Ugandan Women Keep Their Birt...
Before the birth of her first child last year, Warom Molly had never used hormonal birth control. But at her daughter Bethel’s postnatal checkup in G
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Hayley MacMillen
Mind
Does Hormonal Birth Control Make Depression More Likely?
Your birth control is supposed to bring you peace of mind, but could it be affecting your mental health in a negative way? A large new study suggests a lin
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Sara Coughlin
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