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Researchers Examine Whether Falling Birth Control Pill Use Is Linked to Rising Abortion Numbers

Abortion numbers have risen in the US. Researchers are divided on whether shifting contraception use explains it, and the data are limited.

Medical Daily · Aug 10

Trump's anti-science push for fertility

Proposed Title X guidance would elevate restorative reproductive medicine — a practice not always based on evidence

Salon · Apr 28

Trump has turned Title X upside down: from a contraception program into a pronatalist machine

First the administration sought to defund Title X. Now it’s reimagining what it stands for

The Guardian - US · Apr 14

Sharon Grigsby: Trump judge’s rollback of birth control rights forces Texas clinics to turn away teens

Texas has yet again set the standard for terrible reproductive health policy.

Tribune News Service · Jan 4, 2023

Federal court ruling may prevent Texas teens from getting birth control without parental permission

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a former religious liberty lawyer, found that a federal program that gives teens access to birth control denies a parent “a fundamental right to control and direct the upbringing of his minor children.”

The Texas Tribune · Dec 21, 2022

Patient mistrust and poor access hamper federal efforts to overhaul family planning

JACKSON, Miss. — Two years ago, after an emergency cesarean section at a Mississippi hospital, Sherika Trader was denied a tubal ligation. Trader, now 33, was told that to have her tubes tied, she had to have a second child or a husband’s permission, even though she wasn’t married.

Tribune News Service · Nov 24, 2022

Title X advocates worry that birth control may go the same way as abortion

A Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. Now there's a big push to increase funding for Title X, a federal program that offers birth control and other reproductive care to low-income patients.

WEKU · Aug 16, 2022

How to get birth control and emergency contraception in Texas

Contraception options are available through most health insurance plans and government-funded clinics.

The Texas Tribune · Jul 5, 2022

Abortion politics lead to power struggles over family planning grants

BOZEMAN, Mont. — In a busy downtown coffee shop, a drawing of a ski lift with intrauterine devices for chairs draws the eyes of sleepy customers getting their morning underway with a caffeine jolt.

Tribune News Service · May 4, 2022