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By changing women's lives, the pill changed the nation

The pill helped give birth to modern America

The Independent UK · May 12

Protesters, pop stars and pioneers: 38 images that changed the way we see women (for better and for worse)

Shocking, arresting and extraordinary photographs that shifted how women are seen in the world

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2024

MAGA already pushing birth control bans

Charlie Kirk says the pill causes "angry, bitter young ladies" who vote for Democrats to get "free stuff"

Salon · Apr 5, 2024

GOP senator slammed for claiming ‘Black babies are at greater risk of being aborted than white babies’

“Thousands of more Black babies were aborted than born in New York City during that relevant time period,” said Sen. Mike Lee during a hearing this week

The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2022

Male birth control is at our fingertips. Will we ever grasp it?

The research behind hormonal male birth control is about as old as the pill. But a safe and effective candidate is tantalizingly close to market.

Inverse · Jun 30, 2022

YouTuber unknowingly asks former Planned Parenthood president and grandson of founder about abortion access

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, opened America’s first birth control clinic in 1916

The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2022

Planned Parenthood: The organisation leading the fight for abortion access as Roe v Wade is overturned

From the founder’s role in introducing birth control to the US and her murky connections to the KKK and eugenics, to the organisation taking on the Pennsylvania governor in the Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood has long been at the forefront of the fight for reproductive rights, writes Rachel Sharp

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2022

With abortion in jeopardy, minority women have most to lose

A draft Supreme Court opinion suggesting the right to abortion will be overturned is highlighting the risk to Black and Hispanic women

The Independent UK · May 4, 2022

Connecticut Senate passes abortion bill after emotional debate; Gov. Lamont pledges signature

HARTFORD, Conn. — With a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling months away, the state Senate debated emotionally Friday night before approving a key abortion bill that would be the most far-reaching in Connecticut in the past 32 years.

Tribune News Service · Apr 30, 2022

5 years until male birth control?

Early research for a non-hormonal male contraceptive shows remarkable results in lab mice

Salon · Mar 24, 2022