Views writer Savannah Burke argues that cycle-tracking wellness trends spread birth control misinformation and threaten women ...
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 ...
The most commonly used and prescribed birth control pill in the U.S. was classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the World Health Organization (WHO) as carcinogenic. In ...
Posts urging women to stop using traditional oral contraceptives are exploding online, in part due to influencers promoting them with hashtags like #stopthepill, #hormonefree and #naturalbirthcontrol.
Before, anti-contraception claims often borrowed from an anti-abortion strategy first forged in the 1990s. At the time, massive blockades of abortion clinics made headlines. So did a string of murders ...