‘The most feminist thing you can do for yourself is not take birth control’: The shifting politics of the pill

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 ...
NPR

Influencers criticize birth control and push 'natural' methods. Here's what to know

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 ...
WUNC

A stock of U.S.-bought birth control, meant for sub-Saharan Africa, goes bad in Belgium

There's a new twist in the saga of the U.S.-purchased contraceptives intended for sub-Saharan Africa and stuck in Belgium since the Trump administration scaled back foreign aid earlier this year. This ...
STAT

Social media misinformation is scaring women about birth control

Pfender is an associate fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, a postdoctoral researcher at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a research ...
Self

No, Birth Control Won’t Make You Attracted to the ‘Wrong’ Person

Social media has long been rife with misinformation about birth control, much of it slamming hormonal contraceptives for health harms (like infertility or even abortion) that it does not cause, or ...