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Map Your Birth Control Costs
Why do birth control costs vary so widely? Listen to a segment on The Brian Lehrer Show (with Clear Health Costs) and then look up how much your brand costs (cash or self-pay prices) in your area. Read more...
Now You Can Hear a Recording Of Terrifying Abstinence-Only High School Speaker Bellowing For An Hour
Remember Pam from this morning? Pam Stenzel? The public high school speaker who thinks that your mom hates you if you take birth control? We now have an 51-minute long long audio recording of her batshit George Washington High School speech (the video is titled "GWHS Pam Stenzel. Show More Summary
Terrifying Public High School Speaker: If You Take Birth Control, Your Mother Probably Hates You
Meet Pam Stenzel. Pam Stenzel is a highly-paid lecturer who speaks about the virtues of abstinence. Stenzel spoke on Monday at George Washington High School in Charleston, WV and created quite a stir when she allegedly made commentsShow More Summary
Organic Eden Foods Isn't Progressive Enough to Pay For Its Employees' Birth Control
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. Show More Summary
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 prescriptions based on the Bible? More »
We're So Surprised That the Catholic Bishops Rejected Obama's Birth Control Guidelines, Again
The White House released new birth control guidelines last Friday (we broke them down here) in hopes of reaching a compromise with religious groups and organizations that don't want to subsidize whatever they personally equate with baby-killing:...Show More Summary
Thanks to Birth Control in Schools, Teen Pregnancy Is Down 27 Percent in NYC
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. More »
The Administration’s New Birth Control Guidelines Probably Won't Affect You
The Obama administration released new regulations today clarifying which religious groups and organizations can opt out of providing birth control under the Affordable Care Act. It's a little complicated, but the good news is that it...Show More Summary
Israel Forced Ethiopian Women to Get Birth Control Shots
Israel recently admitted that gynecologists were systematically injecting some Jewish Ethiopian immigrants with long-lasting birth control before allowing them to immigrate into the country. More »
Birth Control on the Bottom Yogurt Combines our Two Favorite Woman-Things into One Bowel-Flushing Womb Snack!
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. More »
Happy MLK Day: Your Friendly Reminder Martin Luther King Loved Planned Parenthood and Birth Control
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. More »
Finally, Some Good News from Missouri! Judge Blocks State Law to Deny Birth Control Coverage
Under what circumstances do you think you'd be induced to cheer (in a restrained way, no doubt) for the insidious insurance company that Roy Scheider runs in The Rainmaker? A federal judge may have (indirectly) answered that very tangential...Show More Summary
Planned Parenthood Just Sent Us Chocolate Birth Control
Thank you, Planned Parenthood, for sending me chocolate that looks like birth control. (Not "abortion pills," mind you!) More »
Bobby Jindal Thinks Birth Control Should Be Sold OTC So Women Won't Hate Republicans Anymore
Uh, what? Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal declaring his support for over-the-counter birth control. Was he blackmailed by an evil feminist militia? (They're just everywhere these days. It's an epidemic.)...Show More Summary
Here's a Vagina Tiara Made From Birth Control Pills
If you want to be a princess sans purity, drop your bloomers and don this crown made of contraception — it's time to get busy! Artist Michele Pred's tiara is made of all that sparkles and all that keeps you baby-free. Unfortunately, it isn't for purchase, it's part of an exhibit that will be featured during the Art Miami VIP reception. More »
Anti-Choicers Horrified That a Planned Parenthood Clinic Offered 'Black Friday Deals' on Birth Control
A Florida Planned Parenthood offered "Black Friday Deals" on clinic visits and emergency contraception — $10 off doctor's visits and $5 off emergency contraception — and Jill Stanek, a particularly hyperbolic anti-abortion advocate who broke the super scandalous non-news, is not happy about it. More »
New CDC Report Shows That Abortion Is on the Decline Thanks to More People (Correctly) Using Birth Control
According to the latest report from the CDC, U.S. abortions fell by five percent during the recession and its aftermath, a phenomenon that most likely, insist some researchers, owing to the greater diligence with which women use contraception during tough economic times. Show More Summary
American College of OB/GYNs Says Birth Control Should Be Sold Over the Counter
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the country's largest group of OB/GYNs, said today that oral contraceptives are safe enough to be sold over the counter in drugstores without a doctor's prescription. Awesome! More »
Judge Temporarily Blocks Obamacare Contraception Mandate Because Some Bosses Hate Birth Control
A federal judge told the Roman Catholic boss of a secular for-profit Michigan company that, for the time being, he would not have to provide his female employees with insurance coverage for contraceptives — as the new federal healthShow More Summary
'Birth Control Reduces Abortion' Study Is Full of Slutty Lies, Says Totally Unbiased Anti-Choice Website [Roe V World]
Last week, a very loud BOOM was issued across the land, as Washington University researchers announced that a large scale studied has shown that giving women free long lasting birth control significantly reduces the number of abortions those women have. Show More Summary