Young women are shunning birth control because of the ‘nocebo effect’

When a teen girl recently posted on TikTok about the “pros and cons of birth control,” almost 120,000 people hit the “like” button. Of the pros, the girl said her birth control made her period ...

Opinion: An OB-GYN addresses misinformation about hormonal birth control

As an OB-GYN training to be a complex family planning subspecialist at UC San Diego, I have seen misinformation about ...
CNN

‘The most feminist thing you can do for yourself is not take birth control’: The shifting politics of the pill

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 ...
PolitiFact

The birth control pill and cancer: What are the risks?

Evidence shows that birth control pills containing the hormones estrogen and progestin can increase the risk of different types of cancers and decrease the risk of others.  Since 1999, the World ...