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The FDA approved the progestin-only pill last year and went on sale in stores at the end of March. It was spotted at an H-E-B in San Antonio earlier this week.
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Opill, an over-the-counter birth control pill, goes on sale online today. The pill is expected to be available in stores within a few weeks.
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From convenience stores to online, the tablet 'will be an available option for millions of people in the United States,' the director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research says.
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The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to allow a birth control pill to be sold over the counter for the first time. An advisory committee opens a two-day hearing Tuesday.
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After Texas passed legislation banning nearly all abortions, the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision made any hopes of reinstating abortion care in the state obsolete. Now, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are supporting bills that could increase — or decrease — access to contraceptives and sex ed.
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For decades researchers have struggled to find a contraceptive methods for males. A new fast-acting compound shows promise — assuming it turns out to work as well in men as in mice.
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The Title X program has long provided free, confidential contraception to anyone, regardless of age, income or immigration status. A North Texas federal judge ruled in December that the program violates Texas law and parents’ rights.
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U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a former religious liberty lawyer, found that a federal program that gives teens access to birth control denies a parent “a fundamental right to control and direct the upbringing of his minor children.”
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For decades birth control research focused on women. Now there's a new push to develop gels, pills or other products that could keep men from getting their partners pregnant.
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In her new book, writer — and mother of six — Gabrielle Blair makes the case that the abortion debate should focus much more on men's roles in unintended pregnancy.