Kristan Hawkins is not what you might call a unifying figure. The founder and leader of Students for Life of America, a grassroots anti-abortion network, Hawkins travels to college campuses for ...

Judging by how commonly birth control is practiced in the United States, it ought to rank among the least controversial of subjects. In surveys, ninety-nine per cent of women of reproductive age ...

This work tells the story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. It details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti ...

In the arc of history, women haven’t had it so good. Just biologically, there are the crises of pregnancy, the miscarriages and the risks of maternal, fetal and infant mortality. Reproductive-health ...

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.

In 1873, Congress passed a law outlawing the distribution, sale, mailing and possession of "obscene" materials — including contraception. While working for the post office, Sohn says, Comstock ...