IUDs Are Totally Safe For Teenagers, Too

A new University of Texas study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology recommends IUDs as a birth-control method for teenagers. The study's authors say increasing teenagers' access to IUDs could have a "tremendous impact" on rates of unintended pregnancy.

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Organic Eden Foods Isn't Progressive Enough to Pay For Its Employees'…

Eden Foods, an independently owned natural food company, is just as interested in the "Creation and Maintenance of Purity in Food®" as the maintenance of purity in your uterus: the company is suing the Obama administration for exemption from the contraceptive mandate. Owner Michael Potter believes sex is for…

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When Women Have More Control Over Bearing Children, Their Lives Are…

A brand new and obsessively thorough review of scientific literature has revealed — and you'll probably want to brace yourselves — that having procreational autonomy is "crucial" to a woman's social and economic advancement. Not only that, but, since women pretty much account for half of all the people, when women can…

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More than 200 Million Women Worldwide Will Need Contraception By 2015

Although the percentage of women with steady sexual partners who use at least one contraceptive method has grown significantly over the past two decades — from 55 percent in 1990 to 63 percent in 2010 — 233 million women around the world will lack for contraception by 2015, according to a new United Nations study.

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NuvaBling Will Turn Your Lady Parts into a Diamond Mine Shaft, Like…

Holy shit were there a whole lot of special guests who turned up for Justin Timberlake's fifth hosting gig. Special guests like two wild and crazy guys named Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd, or America's favorite human man, Tom Hanks. Murphy Brown was there, too, making this episode of SNL so star-studded that only a…

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Access to Birth Control Act Is Self-Explanatorily Awesome

Religious employers and medics have demonstrated that even a wide-sweeping federal plan mandating access to affordable contraception doesn't mean people will abide by the law when it comes to hypothetical embryos. What's the point of Obamacare's contraception mandate if pharmacists refuse to fill birth control…

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Thanks to Birth Control in Schools, Teen Pregnancy Is Down 27 Percent…

This is big news; birth control in schools is really working. It makes sense because lots of teenagers want to screw like bunnies, but not reproduce like bunnies. And that's a good thing, especially for girl rabbits. You know, the ones who often have to ignore or delay other goals to raise the litter. Or, er, child.

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'Birth Control on the Bottom Yogurt' Combines Our Two Favorite…

If there's one thing I know as a modern diverse lady-woman, it's that if there's one thing diverse groups of modern female ladies like better than not getting baby-pregnant, it's bowel regularity! Lucky for both of our bottom-holes, now there's Dannon's Birth Control on the Bottom Yogurt.

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Happy MLK Day: Your Friendly Reminder Martin Luther King Loved Planned …

The right loves to try to co-opt Martin Luther King Jr. and portray Planned Parenthood as racist. But an inconvenient fact is that MLK and Planned Parenthood had an excellent relationship. He would, no doubt, be horrified by the modern day attacks on contraception.

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