Tag: Birth control
What is voluntary sterilization? A health communication expert unpacks how a...
Elizabeth Hintz, University of Connecticut
Sterilization is a safe and effective form of permanent birth control used by more...
Male birth control options are in development, but a number of...
Christina Chung-Lun Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
In the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, developing...
How a Supreme Court decision limiting access to abortion could harm...
Michele Gilman, University of Baltimore
The Supreme Court on Dec. 1, 2021, heard oral arguments in a case that...
How a Supreme Court decision limiting access to abortion could harm...
Michele Gilman, University of Baltimore
The Supreme Court on Dec. 1, 2021, heard oral arguments in a case that...
How birth control pill prescriptions by a pharmacist could broaden access...
Sarah Lynch, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Almost 50% of pregnancies in the U.S. are still unplanned or mistimed, even though the first...
How the Catholic Church came to oppose birth control
Lisa McClain, Boise State University
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark “Humanae Vitae,” Pope Paul VI’s strict prohibition against artificial contraception, issued...
How to bring the teen pregnancy rate down
By Colleen McNicholas, Washington University in St Louis
Teen pregnancy is a public health problem in the United States. According to 2010 estimates, girls aged...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
