contraception
HELENA, Mont. — Sophia Ferst remembers her reaction to learning that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade: She needed to get sterilized. Within a week, she asked her provider about getting the procedure done. Ferst, 28, said she has always known she doesn’t want kids. She also worries about getting pregnant as the result of a sexual assault then being unable to access abortion services. “That’s not a crazy concept anymore,” she said. “I think kids are really fun. I even see kids in my therapy practice, but, however, I understand that children are a big commitment,” she said. In Montana...
Kaiser Health News
HELENA, Mont. — Sophia Ferst remembers her reaction to learning that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade: She needed to get sterilized. Within a week, she asked her provider about getting the procedure done. Ferst, 28, said she has always known she doesn’t want kids. She also worries about getting pregnant as the result of a sexual assault then being unable to access abortion services. “That’s not a crazy concept anymore,” she said. “I think kids are really fun. I even see kids in my therapy practice, but, however, I understand that children are a big commitment,” she said. In Montana...
California Healthline
New legislation would repeal parts of the Comstock Act, a Victorian-era law that's being revived to attack abortion pills. Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act was a big deal in earlier eras, sending people to prison for publishing information about birth control, critiques of marriage, and more. The law is vague and broad, banning the mailing of any "article, matter, thing, device, or substance" that the government deems "obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile," along with anything "designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use." Essentiall...
Reason
Washington (AFP) - Republicans in the US Senate on Wednesday blocked a bill recognizing a legal right to contraception, introduced as part of a Democratic effort to highlight threats to reproductive freedoms as a key issue in November elections. The legislation would have guaranteed the right to obtain and use condoms, intrauterine devices and other birth control methods, and for health providers to prescribe them and give advice free from government interference. A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that one in five US adults worries that access to contraception is "a threatene...
AFP
Tl;drUne contraception masculine réversible est en cours de développement.Des chercheurs se concentrent sur l’immobilité des spermatozoïdes.Une molécule inhibe une protéine nécessaire à la fertilité masculine.Le composé CDD-2807 réduit la motilité et le nombre de spermatozoïdes.Bien qu’on en parle depuis des décennies, la contraception masculine réversible, efficace et sûre semble toujours hors de portée. Les obstacles ne sont pas seulement sociétaux, ils sont aussi biologiques en raison de la complexité de la fertilité masculine. Toutefois, des chercheurs, dans une étude publiée dans la revue...
Actusante
New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death. Politicians have long come up with creative ways to battle the rodents, but some lawmakers are now proposing city and statewide measures to do more. In New York City, the idea to distribute rat contraceptives got fresh attention in city government last week following the death of an escaped zoo owl, known as Flaco, who was found dead with rat poison in his system. City Council Member Shaun Abreu p...
Euronews (English)
Washington (AFP) - Prescription-free birth control pills will be available across the United States later this month, widening access to contraception at a time when abortion rights have been drastically curtailed. American-Irish maker Perrigo Company announced Monday that its Opill has "shipped to major retailers and pharmacies and will be available on shelves nationwide," available in one-month and three-month packs for $19.99 and $49.99 respectively. It will also be available on Opill.com. Over-the-counter (OTC) birth control has long been backed by major medical organizations as a way to ...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - US health authorities on Thursday approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the country, dramatically widening access to contraception for women in the United States where abortion rights are increasingly under assault. The medication, Opill, will become available in pharmacies and supermarkets as well as online early next year, the manufacturer Perrigo said in a statement. More than 100 countries already allow contraceptive pills to be sold over the counter. But in the United States approval comes after the Supreme Court last year scrapped federal abortion p...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - With abortion a hot-button issue in the US 2024 presidential race, Joe Biden on Friday won the endorsement of leading groups advocating for reproductive rights. Planned Parenthood, NARAL and Emily's List threw their support behind Biden's reelection bid along with his running mate Vice President Kamala Harris. "When people want to know where @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris stand on reproductive freedom, we tell them: they are unwavering," Planned Parenthood, the country's leading abortion provider and advocacy organization, said on Twitter. In endorsing Biden and Harris, NARAL, ...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill ensuring access to birth control nationwide, a month after the Supreme Court struck down federal abortion rights. The legislation, which spells out the right to purchase and use contraceptive devices, as well as for healthcare professionals to prescribe them, was supported by all the chamber's Democratic lawmakers plus eight Republicans, with 195 of their colleagues voting against. However, the measure was likely to stall in the Senate, divided 50-50, where at least 60 votes are needed for most legislation to pass. T...
AFP
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