Birth Control and Family Planning – Page 17

Abortions Increase in the U.S., Reversing a 30-Year Decline, Report Finds

A new survey of the nation’s abortion providers found increases in every region of the country from 2017 to 2020.

Battles Over Birth Control in Missouri Foreshadow a Post-Roe World

The demise of Roe v. Wade would make the need for effective birth control more urgent than ever. Yet many American women still have a hard time obtaining it.

Poland Shows the Risks for Women When Abortion Is Banned

Poland’s abortion ban has had many unintended consequences. One is that doctors are sometimes afraid to remove fetuses or administer cancer treatment to save women’s lives.

The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America

As young girls, the Relf sisters were sterilized without consent. What does the government owe them — and the thousands of other living victims?

A Debate Over What Roe Did — and What Losing It Would Mean

The socially conservative legal scholar Erika Bachiochi argues that abortion rights have stalled women’s progress toward equality.