Prepare to be grossed out.
Is this reproductive coercion?
This is so messed up.
So you agree? You think you're really silly?
Check yourself before you... get pregnant.
*rolls eyes so hard they disappear into my head*
If you have a phone and wifi, you could have birth control too.
Your prayers have been answered.
It's about time guys share the burden, am I right?
You may want to break up with the pill too.
What would you do if your school took away health insurance?
A scary story like this is almost enough to make you want to put away your pills.
Those little pills that keep you sane when your period is a few days late aren't foolproof.
Good news for ugly dudes, bad news for everyone else, ever.
There are far too many women who way more than 165 pounds for this to be an issue.
So CC's lovely editor Alex was browsing Reddit this week and came across this post, with a guy asking if it was unreasonable to ask his girlfriend of four years to give him a blow job without a condom. My initial thoughts? That must taste weird, very latex-y and possibly like spermicide.
So Alex and I were watching Modern Family on Hulu and all of a sudden a commercial popped up for NuvaRing. We thought it would be a normal commercial where they ramble off side effects and what not. FALSE.
Access to free birth control leads to low teen birth and abortion rates. After letting 9,000 mostly poor and/or uninsured women in the city choose what type of contraception they'd use if it were free, researchers found that women that have access to free contraception don't get pregnant as often.
Do you feel well informed about your rights to abortion? Or overwhelmed by opinion and debate?
Under the Affordable Care Act, all insurance plans will eventually have to cover preventative health services for women, including birth control pills and cancer screenings.
The pill. You know about its most obvious benefit – keeping you out of the cast of Teen Mom. (Or maybe College Mom, I wouldn’t put it past MTV.) There are other benefits to the pill, too. But with recent news stories about risks and recalls of certain brands, how do you know if it’s safe? And how do you know if it’s the right form of birth control for you?
I know I am not a slut, but is it possible to enjoy myself without others labeling me that way?
The medical community has noticed a need for more male contraception options and one in particular has been getting a lot of buzz. While I totally support men having the opportunity to do their part to keep babies from being formed, I am not nearly as gung-ho about male birth control as a lot of people are.
Conservatives claim to love one thing more than anything else. And that's cutting the size of government. Yes, they want fewer taxes and less government spending. But recently it seems they also want to control contraception and other rights that affect women's control over their reproductive systems. Unfortunately for those trying to make both these things happen is that they're mutually exclusive.
On Friday, March 16, the Obama Administration issued a few clarifications to the Affordable Care Act’s consumer protections for student health plans. Are you scratching your head? Let me make it simple—beginning in the fall, all out-of-pocket birth control costs will be covered (meaning no copays or deductibles) by most* of the health insurance plans sold to students by their college or university.
Meghan McCain used to really bother me. I thought the only reason she had become a well known political commentator was because her father, John McCain, was a prominent politician. It's obvious that she's worked hard to brand herself as a new, young voice of the Republican party. This interview she just did with Playboy is an example of that – she has some good things to say, but she's trying hard to seem cool and relatable.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately (which is totally possible, it is midterm season), you’ve heard about all of the controversy surrounding birth control. From Congress to the presidential debates to Twitter to Facebook, everybody is talking about birth control, who should have access to it, and how they should get that access.
How many of us have been in a situation where we're hooking up and the guy just slides in without much warning? Or how many of us have encountered men who are absurdly petulant when their partner asks them to put one on? They always have a litany of excuses or justifications -- "It doesn't feel as good"/"I can't stay hard with one on"/"I'm clean, don't you trust me?"
