Oral contraceptives are the most popular but more expensive contraceptives, like IUDs, have seen more substantial declines in cost.
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"Admittedly, both of them are well educated and there are so many contraceptives available and they could have used such contraceptives and avoided pregnancy."
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Men face no similar danger, so medical regulators have had a much lower tolerance for risks caused by male contraceptives compared to female contraceptives.
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Hunter also points out that hormonal contraceptives, namely oral contraceptives, are linked to a lower risk of ovarian, endometrial and colorectal cancers later in life.
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It also clarifies that federal Medicaid dollars can also be used to cover 90 percent of all family planning services, including condoms, oral contraceptives and emergency contraceptives.
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Said government funding pays for contraceptives as well as myriad other health services, none involving abortion except for the part where the contraceptives help avoid unwanted pregnancies.
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Women also need unimpeded access to long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC), which are more effective at preventing pregnancy than oral contraceptives, and cannot be over-the-counter.
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So researchers could compare what happened to girls in areas where contraceptives became available when they were very young with girls from the same cohorts in areas with no contraceptives.
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The clinics that don't offer contraceptives won't refer patients to clinics that provide that service, a departure from standard medical practice but a reflection of Eaton Bravo's personal opposition to contraceptives.
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And many adolescents with irregular cycles — like those with heavy periods, and like those with very painful periods — may be offered hormone treatments, either oral contraceptives or other hormone-based contraceptives.
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The summit, held on World Population Day, focused on ramping up access to contraceptives for adolescents, boosting family planning services in humanitarian crises and improving the supply and range of contraceptives available.
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But the physicians and advocacy groups I spoke with say the reason for this sharp decline is two-fold: easier access to contraceptives and teens using contraceptives if they believe their friends are.
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Other mandatory perks like free contraceptives and colonoscopies would disappear.
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They didn't learn about sex, contraceptives, or sexually transmitted diseases.
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The organizations are providing contraceptives, medicine, IV solutions, and repellents.
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Its economy collapsed and the government stopped offering free contraceptives.
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Bring STI protection and contraceptives based on your individual needs.
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They would simply obtain an insurance plan that excluded contraceptives.
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The contraceptives will be made available to them as well.
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The university publicly opposed the law's requirement to cover contraceptives.
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The level of breast cancer risk increased the longer a woman had been taking hormonal contraceptives, with the average risk increase being 303% among all current and recent users of these forms of contraceptives.
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The insurer will then separately pay for the contraceptives for employees, which the administration says strikes a good balance: The employer does not have to provide the coverage, but the employees can still get contraceptives.
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Given that American women rely on oral contraceptives more than any other form of nonpermanent birth control, it is unbelievable that the medical community had not already completed a comprehensive risk assessment for modern contraceptives.
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Oral contraceptives are among the most studied, safest drugs in existence.
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Unlike many other contraceptives, the implant is meant to be permanent.
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Even when it comes down to contraceptives and other reproductive rights.
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The government then asks insurers to pay the cost of contraceptives.
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That goes for everything from instant food delivery to even contraceptives.
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Another possible explanation is that teens didn't look for better contraceptives.
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Numerous medical studies have substantiated the noncontraceptive benefits of hormonal contraceptives.
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Act that required employers to cover certain contraceptives for their female
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Among women aged 15 to 19, 37.2 percent were using contraceptives.
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And making it easy for low-income women to afford contraceptives.
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Among them, 10.3% of respondents were using long-acting reversible contraceptives.
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It would end the requirement that health care plans cover contraceptives.
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The "things" in question are abortion-inducing drugs and other contraceptives.
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Watson has tried to offer his patients better contraceptives like IUDs.
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Winners include Carl Djerassi, who helped create the first oral contraceptives.
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Why it matters: It "upends widely held assumptions about modern contraceptives for younger generations of women," who think hormonal contraceptives are safer than old methods that contained higher amounts of estrogen, the New York Times reports.
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So this commitment to lower drug costs, combined with Trump's opinion that contraceptives be available without prescription, could mean low-cost, though not entirely free, over-the-counter contraceptives will be available even if Obamacare is repealed.
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Fewer than one in 10 people in the region use modern contraceptives.
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Gates said contraceptives were "one of the smartest investments countries can make".
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Some reported confusing misoprostol with other pills, like emergency and oral contraceptives.
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The Obama administration made contraceptives a required preventive health service for women.
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The Catholic Church doesn't even believe in these forms of modern contraceptives.
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The Obama administration interpreted this section to require the coverage of contraceptives.
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The fact that women can get contraceptives free of charge is huge.
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She found out she was pregnant in early 2018, despite using contraceptives.
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The researchers focused on women who received long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC).
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Even the hormones in oral contraceptives may cause shifts in the brain.
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And it isn't needed unless a woman has begun taking oral contraceptives.
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It is not the case that pregnant mares cannot be given contraceptives.
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"Any efforts to make contraceptives more affordable is welcome news," Buchanan says.
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"Contraceptives are the cause of abortion," he wrote in a 2011 essay.
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The IOM's decision to include birth control as a preventive benefit set off a fierce political fight, with religious business owners, hospitals, and universities protesting the requirement to cover particular types of contraceptives, particularly intrauterine devices and emergency contraceptives.
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There are three categories of oral contraceptives: progestin only, combined, and extended use.
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Many Catholic nonprofits and hospitals, for example, could choose to stop providing contraceptives.
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A lot of that has to do with more women using better contraceptives.
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The campus will now have a vending machine of contraceptives accessible to students.
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Another US investment that yields enormous returns for the global economy is contraceptives.
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Ninety percent of females now report using contraceptives, compared with 80% in 1988.
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Now the government has renovated clinics, added staff and provided more free contraceptives.
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But many people who do not use contraceptives see no need for them.
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Marylanders will also have access to contraceptives without paying out-of-pocket costs.
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Dr. Bardin paved the way for successful research into male contraceptives as well.
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The mandate required most American employers to offer insurance plans that covered contraceptives.
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So no contraceptives, no screening services, just women trapped in our animal bodies.
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The popularity of long-acting reversible contraceptives like implants and IUDs is rising.
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It has sent contraceptives by drone to hard-to-reach parts of Africa.
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Additionally, Obamacare mandates that insurers cover all contraceptives at no cost to patients.
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Long-acting reversible contraceptives, such as IUDs, don't protect against sexually transmitted infections.
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"It's around 144,000 women who have stopped taking contraceptives each month," she said.
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Bell suggested offering women a wider choice of contraceptives to address this problem.
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Ob-gyns know that oral contraceptives do not require any prescription at all.
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And so far that has meant that male contraceptives don't make financial sense.
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According to Jenkins, Notre Dame has decided to ban third-party providers from including coverage of "abortion-inducing" contraceptives in its insurance plans and the school will also start offering coverage for "simple contraceptives" in its self-funded health plan.
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No contraceptives are currently available for feral hogs, and there are many challenges to the method (like the potential of contraceptives spreading to other species, or to humans who eat the hogs), but additional research and advocacy could change that.
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He is Yu Te Tseng, not Yu Tu. SCIENCE TIMES The Take a Number column on Tuesday about increases in the use of long-term contraceptives misstated the number of women of childbearing age in the United States using contraceptives.
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According to a study cited in the New England Journal of Medicine, women and girls who have access to free and effective methods of contraceptives experience lower rates of unintended pregnancy compared to their counterparts who use other forms of contraceptives.
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These rates are comparable or even superior to those of other contraceptives, including condoms.
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Greeks commonly believe that the pill and other hormonal contraceptives cause infertility and cancer.
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Simply getting hold of contraceptives can be such a hassle that women give up.
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Choice and bodily autonomy have always been a part of the conversation around contraceptives.
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When women start using hormonal contraceptives, there's a possibility that blood clots can form.
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Contraceptives are simply one of the best antipoverty initiatives the world has ever seen.
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", "Love, and Let Live," and "The Harms of the Pill and Other Hormonal Contraceptives.
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Long acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) are safe, nearly 100 percent effective, and cost effective.
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Large amounts of contraceptives were made available and advertisements increased demand for birth control.
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Longer-acting reversible contraceptives, like IUDs or implants, haven't been studied yet in astronauts.
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Nine out of 10 women will use contraceptives at some point in her lifetime.
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Many health experts consider hormonal contraceptives safe enough to be sold over the counter.
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But I'm also the one that wrote the bill on over-the-counter contraceptives.
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Forced abortions and contraceptives have also been reported in The Washington Post and Haaretz.
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The ACA requires nearly all businesses to cover contraceptives at no cost to patients.
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She described scientific evidence on the effectiveness of various contraceptives in preventing unintended pregnancies.
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Women in the study had used oral contraceptives for an average of seven years.
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The objectors are Christians who associate so-called "morning after" emergency contraceptives with abortion.
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Hormonal contraceptives are pretty much the only fool-proof way of manipulating your period.
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In fact, at the time the first contraceptives were developed, most governments banned them.
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Together, they were tasked with making a recommendation about female contraceptives in West Africa.
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"It's the first step, I believe, to true over-the-counter contraceptives," Rabin said.
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Scares about the safety of contraceptives predictably decrease contraceptive use and increase unwanted pregnancies.
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That's because not all women will stop cycling on hormonal contraceptives, Ascher-Walsh said.
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These countries do not produce their own contraceptives, so most contraceptives are provided through donations from nonprofits and the international community, which is one reason why availability of methods varies so wildly from country to country, and inventory shortages are not uncommon.
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A spate of new contraceptives came out in the late '90s and '00s, Sitruk-Ware says, including Mirena, NuvaRing, and Implanon, an arm implant; Dutton recalls that when she was in training, prescription contraceptives were limited to the Pill and the injection.
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He asserted that "nuns were being forced to buy contraceptives" — an apparent, though not fully accurate, reference to an Obama administration health care policy meant to ensure women covered by faith-based groups&apos health plans have access to cost-free contraceptives.
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Taking oral contraceptives or another form of hormonal birth control reduces the risk of cysts.
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During the past year, many Egyptians have struggled to find contraceptives, especially birth-control pills.
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In turn, it attributed the falling numbers of unintended pregnancies to increased use of contraceptives.
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Bangladeshis and Malawians are keener users of contraceptives than Greeks or Italians (see chart 2).
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"No research has been done on long-term use of contraceptives in space," Jain said.
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The precedent-setting case allowed corporations to decline coverage of contraceptives based on religious views.
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It's a popular alternative to hormonal contraceptives like the pill because it lacks side effects.
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And a study suggests that the reason is increased, and increasingly effective, use of contraceptives.
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The main reason for this, the study's authors contend, is the use of oral contraceptives.
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"There is active research on male contraceptives, but we are not currently involved," he said.
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Condoms and other contraceptives disappeared from many Venezuelan pharmacies and clinics this time last year.
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The startup aims to break the societal barriers people face in India while buying contraceptives.
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But when Reuters visited a clinic in Sohag last month, there were no contraceptives left.
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For years Mahmoud, 33, didn't use contraceptives consistently even though she wanted a small family.
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It was only after her mother-in-law died that she started using contraceptives properly.
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Contraceptives and sterilization could reduce reproductive rates and help slow the growth of the problem.
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The senators applauded steps the Navy has already taken to expand access to such contraceptives.
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Hormonal contraceptives are associated with an increased risk for depression, a large study has found.
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According to the Population Council, Annovera is the first in a new class of contraceptives.
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Sometimes it results in men pleasuring themselves with burgers and contraceptives in jars of preserves.
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UCSF's Greene Foster notes that there can be cultural obstacles even when contraceptives are available.
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Women are not expected to use contraceptives [but] abortion would be a much worse offense.
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And use of modern contraceptives has almost halved, from 22014 percent to 22003 per cent.
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Connecticut, a case that struck down a law banning the use and sale of contraceptives.
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Long-acting reversible contraceptives are highly effective, long lasting and life-changing for many people.
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That means it will probably be easier to get the progestin-only oral contraceptives approved.
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Taking oral contraceptives may reduce the risk for rheumatoid arthritis, a new study has found.
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In fact, oral contraceptives are safer than many other medications already available over-the-counter.
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For the study, Lipton recruited 50 women, 21 of whom were already taking oral contraceptives.
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Research has shown that black women are more likely to feel pressured to use contraceptives.
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In fact, 14 percent of women report using contraceptives for reasons unrelated to pregnancy planning.
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For mild pain, some women use nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and estrogen-progestin oral contraceptives.
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To be be freed from arranging or paying for contraceptives, organisations had to attest to their religious objection by filling out Form 700; upon receipt of the form, HHS would contact the relevant insurance company and instruct it provide the contraceptives at no cost.
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Nestorone and other progestins are already regularly used in many female contraceptives, including the vaginal ring.
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To start off, you would need to say goodbye to that free IUD and similar contraceptives.
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The spread of online prescriptions for contraceptives shows that "we're really ready for innovation," she says.
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Even before Obamacare's birth control mandate, American women were already gravitating toward these more effective contraceptives.
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Generally, countries that offer more types of modern contraceptives have higher overall percentages of contraceptive use.
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The elimination of the ACA could also make it more difficult for women to access contraceptives.
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This trial also helped show that male contraceptives didn't need to cut sperm count to zero.
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Contraceptives are a retail business – it's a matter of selling a lot, and profit is low.
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But Republicans are determined to defund Planned Parenthood, outlaw abortion, and make contraceptives harder to access.
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What are the realistic risks of making not just contraceptives, but all drugs, over the counter?
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"Women understand that whatever they do carries risk, and hormonal contraceptives are no exception," he says.
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In the 2014s, contraceptives became widely available worldwide, with access and use varying across the globe.
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At the same time, contraceptives will remain readily available to those who wish to use them.
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One area that the philanthropist had not intended on getting involved in was talking about contraceptives.
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The request asks whether there are alternative ways to provide "seamless coverage" of all approved contraceptives.
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Because the funding had stagnated, we weren't investing as a world in new contraceptives for women.
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Availability of contraceptives and access to education and higher quality jobs affect fertility rates, says Roser.
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The risk was about 25 birth defects per 1,000 births regardless of exposure to oral contraceptives.
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Access to these contraceptives has steadily increased in developed countries, making it easier to prevent pregnancy.
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Research has been slow to affirm the negative aspects of what women experience on oral contraceptives.
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One method involves standard oral contraceptives, which are still the most popular method of birth control.
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There are 10,000 safety net clinics across the country that provide contraceptives to low-income women.
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As that figure declines, the number of women accessing no-cost contraceptives will likely continue growing.
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"The reality is that there are very few antibiotics that interfere with oral contraceptives," she says.
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Women who use contraceptives containing progesterone even have an increased risk of depression and suicide attempts.
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But hormonal contraceptives are often not enough to get testosterone down to the arbitrary permissible level.
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That's why we fought so hard for the Affordable Care Act to get no cost contraceptives.
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At the same time, contraceptives will remain readily available to those who wish to use them.
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So he's working toward a world where low-income women won't be able to afford contraceptives.
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She worried she would get pregnant, so the couple agreed to look into using other contraceptives.
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FDA-approved OTC contraceptives should be covered the same way to ensure everyone can access them.
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Some types of hormonal contraceptives can increase the risk of blood clots, heart attack and stroke.
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True, it also helps to be against selling wedding cakes to homosexuals and contraceptives to women.
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Most LARCs work similarly to other contraceptives, using hormones to prevent sperm from fertilizing an egg.
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Before 2006, much of the decline in teen birth was attributed to the rise in contraceptives.
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In an era when contraceptives could be banned, the GOP fought for greater family planning resources.
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Campaigners say if young people in Madagascar had access to contraceptives many unsafe abortions could be prevented.
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Because of his promotion of contraceptives, he was afflicted with acute segmentation by supporters of the HAP.
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There are two reasons: Greater use of contraceptives and a wave of abortion restrictions in several states.
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The legislation, initially enacted in 2012, aims to provide free contraceptives to the country's 100 million people.
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Connecticut (which guarantees married couples can use contraceptives in privacy of their own homes) could be overturned.
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Oral contraceptives can also be helpful, because they help the menstrual cycle get on track or regular.
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The results, Asnake says, are astounding: Ethiopia's use of modern contraceptives has essentially tripled over a decade.
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Hers currently offers 10 generic oral contraceptives, but it focuses on those four areas of health mentioned.
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So far, most contraceptives (like condoms) target the swimming — but what if the drilling could be prevented?
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Oral contraceptives have previously been linked to a lower risk of ovarian cancer, the study team notes.
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In a 2015 column, she espoused that oral contraceptives cause abortions, which runs counter to scientific consensus.
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The Stormans family is made up of devout Christians who associate "morning after" emergency contraceptives with abortion.
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It was one of the first significant advances in long-acting contraceptives since the Dalkon Shield disaster.
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Connecticut, which gave married couples the right to use contraceptives in the privacy of their own home.
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Workers also no longer have to pay for contraceptives and preventative screenings, such as colonoscopies and mammograms.
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The executive order forbids health-care companies from denying coverage for contraceptives, the New York Post reported.
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So, yes, anyone who wants contraceptives can access them, but it's an utterly made-up nonsense issue.
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However, this new study is important because it looked at newer preparations of contraceptives, he told CNN.
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Under that accommodation, these women would still be entitled to all FDA-approved contraceptives without cost sharing.
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The court ruled in 1965 that state bans on contraceptives for married couples violated their privacy rights.
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The terrible Zika virus led the pope to tell women in affected regions that contraceptives are acceptable.
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Currently, the most effective methods — so-called long-acting reversible contraceptives — are least often used by adolescents.
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Nurx, a San Francisco start-up that markets contraceptives for women, has raised more than $41 million.
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Beasley believed women should have access to contraceptives to avoid the disastrous consequences her own mother faced.
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Under the Trump administration's proposal, some women would be eligible for free contraceptives regardless of their income.
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Of that group, 51 percent said they experienced at least one mood effect while on hormonal contraceptives.
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The majority of companies that have received permission not to cover contraceptives are for-profit, secular employers.
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Roula, a 30-year-old architect from Crete who studied in England, where four-fifths of women use contraceptives and hardly any rely on condoms to prevent pregnancy (as opposed to sexually transmitted diseases), describes the counselling on the range of contraceptives at her university's clinic as "enlightening".
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Still, in order to establish that taking oral contraceptives causes the hypothalamus to lose volume, Lipton would have to conduct additional studies with people who hadn't used oral contraceptives before, assess their hypothalamus volume, have them take the pills, and then assess their hypothalamuses again before reaching any conclusions.
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By 2012, IUDs accounted for 9.5% of all contraceptives in use, compared to less than 2% in 2001.
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One-third of women's wage gains since the 1960's are a result of access to oral contraceptives.
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Doctors in eastern Europe routinely order all sorts of unnecessary tests before prescribing contraceptives, contravening official medical guidelines.
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The family planning public health campaign is being spearheaded by IntraHealth, an NGO that distributes contraceptives throughout Senegal.
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While family planning is a constitutional right, many women have trouble getting contraceptives because of poverty or inconvenience.
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But Lindberg noted that just as for older women, teens should be offered a full choice of contraceptives.
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The declining abortion rates in the developed world, experts say, tell a story about better access to contraceptives.
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According to one estimate, only 3 percent of nonprofit groups offering health benefits have objected to contraceptives coverage.
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Contraceptives and health care services are provided for free largely through the support of bilateral donors and nonprofits.
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This is why in sub-Saharan Africa, for example, condoms, pills, and injectables remain the most prevalent contraceptives.
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As societies get richer and women get more rights, they work more and have increased access to contraceptives.
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But more than 50 years after oral contraceptives became commonplace, they remain an option only available to women.
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Health workers are reluctant to prescribe contraceptives to teenagers or to women who have not yet given birth.
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By limiting access to contraceptives, the global gag rule could set off a number of public health disasters.
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The BLM is pinning its hopes on research into new contraceptives, as well as into spaying and neutering.
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"My family, my career, and my life are the direct result of having access to contraceptives," she said.
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The prescription information was matched with a cancer registry to document any associations between contraceptives and breast cancer.
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Some send prescriptions to local pharmacies, where women can present their insurance information when picking up the contraceptives.
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Contraception – The Affordable Care Act required private health plans to cover contraceptives with no out-of-pocket costs.
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The availability of low-cost pregnancy tests, contraceptives and abortions will help to close the gap even further.
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Under the accommodation, nonprofits that object to covering contraceptives can sign a two-page form notifying their insurer.
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Lanyon's current girlfriend was on oral contraceptives for 22015 years, during which she battled depression and mood swings.
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The court had ruled in 1965 that state bans on contraceptives for married couples violated their privacy rights.
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"Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives," the Republican donor Foster Friess said in 2012.
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Almost 211 percent relied on male sterilization, 25.1 percent took oral contraceptives and 272 percent used male condoms.
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But the rate of condom use is still low — less than 6 percent among those who use contraceptives.
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By contrast, many doctors, including obstetricians and gynecologists, say contraceptives have generally been a boon to women's health.
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There's been an increase in contraceptives among all women and specifically adolescents, particularly intrauterine devices and hormonal implants.
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The law, commonly known as Obamacare, mandates insurers cover the cost of contraceptives, including intrauterine devices, or IUDs.
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The fact of the matter is that Catholics don't need Pope Francis' half-hearted permission to use contraceptives.
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Ensuring that your provider offers the full range of contraceptives helps you take control of your health care.
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Liletta is an intrauterine device (IUD) — and IUDs are one of the most effective contraceptives on the market.
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The women's health provider currently uses Title X funding to provide contraceptives to millions of low-income women.
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The case was a challenge brought by religious non-profit groups who objected to providing contraceptives under the law.
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There are about 500,000 vasectomies performed in the U.S. every year and 22.5 million men relying on temporary contraceptives.
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Contraceptives were the only item in the list that remained controversial, at least for some institutions with religious affiliations.
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"We haven't had anything new in the realm of male contraceptives since the introduction of the condom," he says.
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"If we limit access to contraceptives, we are going to have more unintended pregnancy in this country," Albert says.
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The health care law required insurance companies to cover IUDs and other contraceptives at no cost to the consumer.
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And we are literally locking women into the cycle of poverty if we don't allow them access to contraceptives.
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We strongly urge that there not be a restriction of age about [how a person can obtain] oral contraceptives.
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This meant that IUDs and implants — the most effective, reversible contraceptives — became a lot more affordable for American women.
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"My family, my career, my life as I know it are because I had access to ... contraceptives," she said.
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All in all, the study suggests that the benefits of contraceptives in poor countries may be larger than thought.
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Let's consider the White House claim about hormonal contraceptives increasing the risk of deep vein thrombosis, or blood clotting.
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The 17-year-old mom will begin taking contraceptives on Friday following her retirement from the park's breeding program.
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And it's not just abortion access that is under siege; it's also family planning services, including access to contraceptives.
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The three-month injectable contraceptives she had previously received for free would now cost her $4, according to FHOK.
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Previous studies have also linked oral contraceptives to a risk of breast cancer, as well as to blood clots.
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Nurx currently offers combination pills, progesterone-only pills, the patch, NuvaRing, and emergency contraceptives, like Plan B One Step.
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That's a lot of women, and you do have these now phenomenally effective long-acting contraceptives: implants, injectables, IUDs.
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This could impact many of the millions of women who now receive contraceptives at no cost under this provision.
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In developed regions such as North America and Western Europe, access to contraceptives has remained high since the 1970s.
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But women who have no access to contraceptives account for a disproportionate number of unintended pregnancies in those countries.
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"I have ten children," she said after the moderator asked if the candidates support free or low-cost contraceptives.
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These contraceptives have failure rates below 1 percent — meaning that of 100 users, fewer than 1 will become pregnant.
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The court had ruled earlier, in 1965, that state bans on contraceptives for married couples violated their privacy rights.
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Condoms, sold over-the-counter and sometimes distributed free in schools, are the most frequently used contraceptives by teens.
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There are two major types of oral contraceptives, progestin-only and combined pills that contain both progestin and estrogen.
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As oral contraceptives gained worldwide popularity, Dr. Djerassi lectured widely to promote the pill and became a wealthy celebrity.
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In 2012, nearly 21 percent of women paid out of pocket for their birth control pills and other contraceptives.
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Some 59.9 percent of black women used contraceptives, compared with 67 percent of whites and 64 percent of Hispanics.
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In the new rules, the Trump administration says the Affordable Care Act does not explicitly require coverage of contraceptives.
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New York state issued new regulations Saturday that require insurers to provide contraceptives without any cost sharing to patients.
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Hobby Lobby, in which he sided with the craft store giant in its challenge of Obamacare's contraceptives coverage requirement.
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Last year, Congress cut the Health Department's budget for contraceptives, citing the court order halting the distribution of implants.
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First, entitles that have "sincerely held religious beliefs" against providing contraceptives would no longer be required to do so.
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Connecticut, holding unconstitutional a Connecticut statute making it a crime to prescribe contraceptives -- a ruling Bork had long criticized.
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This is thought to improve their odds of success once they stop taking contraceptives and start trying to conceive.
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Free access to long-term contraceptives has made Obamacare arguably the most pro-life federal program in American history.
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Emergency contraceptives come in many brands including Plan B One-Step, Aftera, Econtra EZ, Take Action, Preventeza, and more.
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The Side Effects of Plan BThe way emergency contraceptives work is that they contain a large dose of levonorgestrel.
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When Bush imposed his version of the policy, it meant that no contraceptives reached a village in northern Ghana.
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According to the Guttmacher Institute, there are 6 states where pharmacists can refuse to give contraceptives without legal ramifications.
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The overall market for contraceptives is expected to balloon to $33 billion by 2013, according to another Bloomberg story.
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The Colorado experience suggests that expanded access to better contraceptives could play a huge role in reducing unintended births.
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In 1972, the Court struck down a Massachusetts law banning the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people, despite the fact that in many states bans like that were themselves a longstanding tradition, which would seem to run against the idea that the right to contraceptives outside of marriage had a strong historical basis.
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The contraceptives R&D landscape spans researchers at universities whose work is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and groups like the Society of Family Planning; nonprofit research organizations like the Population Council, which develops new kind of contraceptives; and major pharmaceutical corporations like Bayer, Merck, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson.
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While studies have shown a possible link between oral contraceptives such as birth control pills and breast cancer, the National Cancer Institute states that there is only a slightly higher risk that declines after discontinuation of oral contraceptives and, conversely, a reduced risk of other reproductive cancers such as ovarian and endometrial cancers.
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"The risk of depression has been recognized since women were able to get their hands on oral contraceptives," she says.
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"There are lots of reasons why women may want to or may not want to use hormonal contraceptives," he said.
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Prominent winners include Carl Djerassi — who helped develop the first oral contraceptives — and the most recent awardee, Ann E. Weber.
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Among them was the requirement that most insurers cover all FDA-approved contraceptives without charging women anything out-of-pocket.
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In 2016 he announced that state schools would be free, and, as a result, women could throw away their contraceptives.
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Connecticut — a 1965 decision that struck down a state ban on contraceptives as a violation of privacy rights — and Roe.
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Half of the 16 European countries in the IPPF review provide no reimbursement for contraceptives; none fully covers all methods.
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And I am incredibly frustrated and disappointed to see that systematically-- access to contraceptives being rolled back in this country.
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Racial disparities remain, however, and few teens use highly effective long-acting contraceptives such as intrauterine devices or hormonal implants.
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He says that often a young woman will ask a health provider about contraceptives but will instead get a lecture.
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Without keen interest from the industry that we have traditionally relied on to supply our contraceptives, that requires enormous effort.
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And no mainstream medical group considers copper IUDs to be anything other than contraceptives — even when used in emergency situations.
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No surprise: It's "access ... and use of contraceptives that has really led to these kind of changes," one expert said.
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My IUD has reduced the symptoms of my irritable bowel syndrome, which only doubles the benefits of contraceptives for me.
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But such a plan ignores the religious organisations' central complaint that their insurance plans are being "hijacked" to provide contraceptives.
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On the contrary, lack of access to education and contraceptives correlates directly to increases in teen pregnancies, abortions, and STDs.
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"Contraceptives are not a solution," Bishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner of the National Council of Bishops in Brazil told the Times.
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These hormonal contraceptives allow females to participate in their daily activities and contribute to society, now and in the future.
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Industry watchers say Lupin, which specializes in oral contraceptives and drugs for diabetes and hypertension, is doing better than most.
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These stories show the high costs of resistance, and the serious consequences of asking women to use less effective contraceptives.
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The researchers concluded that reduced access to modern contraceptives led women to seek abortion as a form of birth control.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the number of women of childbearing age in the United States using contraceptives.
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Also, the need for female contraceptives has been greater historically because pregnancy and childbirth can be dangerous, even life-threatening.
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The health law generally requires employers to cover preventive health services, and the government says those include contraceptives for women.
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Since 11.63, researchers have seen a sharp rise in long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), such as intrauterine devices and implants.
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Employees in the past had been able to get contraceptives and contraceptive services at no cost through a third party.
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They are instead the result of factors like natural family planning, hormonal contraceptives, sterilization, infertility and loss, and yes, abortion.
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Informal comments during an in-flight press conference don't change the long-standing Vatican prohibition on the use of contraceptives.
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Health experts and multiple scientific studies assert that emergency contraceptives are not abortifacients because they do not terminate existing pregnancies.
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In my bathroom cabinet sat a six-month supply of Lo Loestrin, one of the lowest-dose hormonal contraceptives available.
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Colleen Murray, its senior science officer, says that Obamacare has made long-acting contraceptives like IUDs available to more young women.
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If it's been 72 hours since your birth control failed, then emergency contraceptives can be used to prevent pregnancy, he says.
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The ACLU alleges that these groups frequently withhold care they are legally obligated to provide—namely family planning and emergency contraceptives.
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Now the policy hinders drug firms, which cannot pass on higher costs to consumers, most of whom pay for contraceptives themselves.
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Other forms of birth control, such as the pill and injectable contraceptives, are hard to find, so people rely on condoms.
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In plenty of countries, including Ireland and Russia, more than a third of married couples who use contraceptives rely on condoms.
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But a large new study has found that taking oral contraceptives around the time of pregnancy did not increase the risk.
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But boiled down, research shows that shifting oral contraceptives from prescription to over the counter would likely have only positive effects.
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The startup launched in 2014 with the goal to make reliable access to contraceptives as easy as opening your web browser.
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One college campus is taking that access one step further even, offering its students contraceptives from a — get this — vending machine.
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Studies have also shown that more women choose the IUD or other long-acting contraceptives if money is not a barrier.
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Before the mandate, many insurers did not cover contraceptives for women, which often meant they were unaffordable or out of reach.
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The hope is strategies that give teens access to reproductive health services and effective contraceptives will reduce the rates going forward.
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The bottom line: The study showed a relatively small increased risk for cancer among women who used these forms of contraceptives.
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Nor has it carried out any comparative studies of its method against other contraceptives such as the pill or condom use.
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The difference is that contraceptives are almost universally available to young people at low or no cost in these other countries.
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Africa already has the lowest percentage of women using birth control, and the highest unmet demand for contraceptives in the world.
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A growing assortment of new apps and websites now make it possible to get prescription contraceptives without going to the doctor.
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That ensures Obria complies with Title X's requirements that say part of a project must provide the full range of contraceptives.
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But none of the Title X funds Obria receives will go toward contraceptives, avoiding a conflict with their faith-based mission.
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Brenton was quick to mention that she is a mother of 10 children, particularly when the issue of contraceptives came up.
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According to the National Women's Law Center, 85033 million women receive contraceptives through their insurers with no out-of-pocket costs.
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She then complains on Facebook about how contraceptives are so expensive, she's allergic to them, and that some are just uncomfortable.
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The report warned that unless young girls are given greater access to contraceptives and family planning methods, the situation could worsen.
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Abortion rates per 83,000 women ages 15 to 44 One big differentiator between these countries seems to be access to contraceptives.
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At the same time, evidence of psychological harm from the disruption of hormonal regulation that estrogen-based contraceptives cause is growing.
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Remember how outraged you were when the Trump administration decided to rollback Affordable Care Act provisions requiring employers to cover contraceptives?
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And there's not a whole lot they can do beyond trying to blunt it with pain-relieving pills or oral contraceptives.
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The Obama administration cited studies showing that as the use of contraceptives went up, the rate of unintended pregnancies came down.
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Treat Teenage Moms Like Moms, Not Children In 11 states, adolescent mothers still need their own parents' consent to receive contraceptives.
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The study, in JAMA Oncology, included 196,536 women ages 50 to 71, more than half of whom had used oral contraceptives.
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But is deregulating coal, degrading environmental standards, stripping women of contraceptives and challenging tyrants around the world to war their candy?
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This reality demands far greater caution in implying a causal connection between common medications like oral contraceptives and mental health problems.
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It's true that Obamacare expanded access to these types of birth control, by expanding insurance and eliminating copayments for all contraceptives.
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Ivanka's a major power in the administration, and she ought to be mobilizing support for things like easy access to contraceptives.
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Researchers say the Affordable Care Act has increased women's access to contraceptives, including highly effective methods like intrauterine devices and implants.
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In turn, Pennsylvania claims it will then be obligated to provide contraceptives to these religious women, causing the state economic harm.
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Here's a guy who reduced women's ability to get contraceptives covered by their employee health insurance in the Hobby Lobby ruling.
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The law empowered only licensed pharmacists to sell nonprescription contraceptives and declared that they could not be advertised or openly displayed.
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When oral contraceptives first came out in 1960, the amount of estrogen and progestin was much higher than it is today.
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The vast majority—93 percent—followed the guidelines for prescribing contraceptives established by the Centers for Disease Control, the researchers found.
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Intrauterine devices, for instance, are long-acting reversible contraceptives that can last for three to 10 years depending on the method.
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"It's around 144,000 women who have stopped taking contraceptives each month," Isabel Reinoso, president of the Argentina Pharmaceutical Confederation, told Reuters.
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The court highlighted the fact that the government could itself cover those specific contraceptives without impinging on the plaintiffs' religious beliefs.
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The religious group, Priests for Life, argued it was being forced to provide health coverage for contraceptives despite its religious objections.
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Democrats say the move endangers birth control coverage for millions of women, including those who are prescribed contraceptives for health reasons.
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In 2013, researchers Kate Grindlay and Daniel Grossman interviewed 753 recently deployed women service members to understand how they used contraceptives.
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Given how well studied contraceptives are, any new information must be presented within the context of all that is already known.
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The specific provisions are cut down to allowing organizations to opt out of the mandate to provide contraceptives through employer insurance.
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The case concerned Hobby Lobby, a craft store chain that objected to providing certain contraceptives in their health care plan under Obamacare.
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Another argued that private companies should be able to offer healthcare coverage that doesn't cover basic preventative care for women, including contraceptives.
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Instead of jail, he called for improved access to long-term contraceptives and substance-treatment programs designed to care for pregnant women.
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Supporters of religious organizations that want to ban contraceptives from their health insurance policies rally outside the Supreme Court in March 2016.
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Her mother-in-law kept her from traveling to the city to get contraceptives when the local clinic was out, she said.
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In 2014, the court ruled in favor of closely held for-profit companies like Hobby Lobby that objected to providing certain contraceptives.
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Why it matters: The rollback would have allowed employers not to grant their workers cost-free contraceptives, citing religious and moral objections.
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The groups say the requirement forces them to either violate their religious beliefs by providing "abortifacients and contraceptives" or pay ruinous fines.
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Asking women to avoid pregnancy without offering the necessary information, education, contraceptives or access to abortion is not a reasonable health policy.
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In March, researchers got excited about a "significant advance" in developing the most elusive of contraceptives: a birth control pill for men.
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Traditional contraceptives like condoms or birth control pills have virtually vanished from store shelves, pushing women toward the hard-to-reverse surgery.
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Some groups, including Little Sisters of the Poor, contract with church-based insurers, which themselves are exempt from having to provide contraceptives.
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One of the biggest cultural hurdles health care providers face when increasing access to contraceptives is the taboo surrounding adolescent contraceptive use.
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Bremner stressed that one of the main goals of FP2020 is to increase the number of modern contraceptives offered to all women.
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In the exchange many people have cited, Kavanaugh is not quite stating that he himself believes contraceptives to be abortion-inducing drugs.
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The Pill Club also offers the NuvaRing and Patch in addition to oral contraceptives, and sends you goodies with each monthly shipment.
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For Gangeskar, creating affordable access to contraceptives is a first step to changing how patients interact and receive medication from their physicians.
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Like Medrano, they'll use the gel in place of other contraceptives while researchers monitor their sperm counts and any unforeseen side effects.
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Burwell, which addresses whether non-profit religious organizations can be compelled under Obamacare to pay for contraceptives in their employee health plans.
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Her mother-in-law kept her from travelling to the city to get contraceptives when the local clinic was out, she said.
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Over 800 women and adolescent girls die every day because they do not have access to reliable contraceptives and basic maternity services.
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"What these people are really after is contraceptives," Vi Simpson, the former Democratic minority leader of the Indiana State Senate, told me.
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Pill Club continues to be a participating pharmacy in our network and there is no impact on its customers' access to contraceptives.
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Fink said she knows contraceptives can fail -- some of her own pregnancies were unexpected -- but that's still no excuse for an abortion.
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And there is significant personal benefit in controlling when one chooses to conceive and in using contraceptives to treat specific gynecologic disorders.
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There were a lot of providers who thought it might be harmful to give them contraceptives because it might harm their fertility.
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Nine percent of women become pregnant in the first year of taking oral contraceptives due to missed doses, drug interactions or illnesses.
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Still, the researchers conclude that exposure to oral contraceptives near the start of a pregnancy is unlikely to cause major birth defects.
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But the same isn't true of developing countries, some of which have fewer than 20 percent of women in relationships using contraceptives.
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But synthesizing those hormones from animal or plant extracts had been too expensive and relatively ineffective for use in commercial oral contraceptives.
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"Nothing is risk-free, and hormonal contraceptives are not an exception to that rule," said Dr. Øjvind Lidegaard, the paper's senior author.
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That means if birth control moved over the counter, women might have to start paying more out of pocket for their contraceptives.
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The fact that usage of these contraceptives has nearly tripled since 2007 is a huge part of why unintended pregnancies are dropping.
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Trump's had a virtual war on birth control, beginning with an attempt to eliminate the rule that employer health insurance cover contraceptives.
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It is, to put it mildly, unwise for a fertile heterosexual couple to have intercourse without discussing whether either is using contraceptives.
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Under the law, government agencies will provide modern family planning services, including free contraceptives and prenatal care to all women and families.
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Ties I was not prepared for the phone call from my father's skilled nursing facility asking for permission to provide him contraceptives.
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I am going to show you what a condom looks like, I am going to show you what other contraceptives are like.
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Military treatment facilities and Tricare cover a wide range of contraceptives including daily pills, long-acting implanted devices and emergency contraception pills.
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My friends, cousins, all of them, even my daughters-in-law, they use contraceptives because they don't want to get pregnant again.
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A counselor at the FPA tried to tell Carla about contraceptives after her first abortion, but Carla and the counselor didn't connect.
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Because of this, hormonal contraceptives are protective against BV. Vaginas usually contain some yeast, but when that yeast proliferates, things get uncomfortable.
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An estimated 6.2 million women received contraceptives at 10,700 publicly funded clinics across the country in 2015, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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Early on, Trump announced that employers who offered moral objections would no longer have to cover contraceptives in their health care plans.
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The church has long opposed the use of artificial contraceptives, a ban reaffirmed by Paul VI in his 1968 papal encyclical, Humanae Vitae.
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That drop created a shortage of medicines in pharmacies across Egypt, as scores of products including contraceptives became unprofitable to produce or import.
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A number of high-profile injectable hormonal male contraceptives have failed over the years or been stopped short for concern over side effects.
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"We found no evidence that women's face preferences tracked changes in hormone levels or changes in women's use of oral contraceptives," Jones said.
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That population is large enough to maintain a breeding program so robust that many females of child-bearing age are given hormonal contraceptives.
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Maryland is now one of 28 states that require health insurance companies to cover the cost of prescription contraceptives, both drugs and devices.
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It would help if they did not look down on bachelors: some make it hard for unmarried people to get hold of contraceptives.
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The study, as well as anecdotal accounts and research by NGOs, suggest that abortions rose because of cuts in the supply of contraceptives.
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The most effective forms of birth control are long-acting reversible contraceptives like IUDs and implants, which only failed 1% of the time.
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They also offer products that improve living standards and cut household costs, such as solar lights and clean cook stoves, and supply contraceptives.
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During a recent Burmese New Year festival, Yangon officials banned the sale of contraceptives and Viagra in the hope of curbing sex crimes.
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In 2009, a study on 73 women ages 18-31 looked at whether taking oral contraceptives would impact their ability to gain muscle.
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Nevertheless, Fischer said new feline contraceptives are being developed and will likely be tested on cats living in the lab in the future.
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This evidence indicates the Mexico City Policy was detrimental to nongovernmental organizations providing modern contraceptives, inadvertently leading to more, rather than fewer abortions.
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In fact, as highly effective long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) like IUDs and implants become more popular, sex without a condom does too.
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For HHS to define it as beginning at conception is a transparent attempt to justify restrictions on certain contraceptives as well as abortion.
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But early tests around male contraceptives were inconclusive, and as birth control pills exploded, there wasn't as much interest in a male version.
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The plaintiffs in Zubik argued that having to report their reasons for not offering contraceptives was still a burden on their religious rights.
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The ministries have faced crippling, multi-million dollar fines unless they participate in insurance that provides abortion pills and contraceptives against their faith.
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Of the group, about 203 percent filled a prescription for pain medication, antibiotics, HIV prevention drugs, emergency contraceptives or sleep or anxiety medication.
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In Oregon, for example, some barriers remain: Women can only obtain two types of hormonal contraceptives, and they must be 18 or older.
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Prior to the requirement, the Trump administration estimates that more than a half-million women had health plans that did not cover contraceptives.
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He later began work on a project to develop a biodegradable condom that is odorless and compatible with antiviral drugs and other contraceptives.
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Lidegaard uses a trial period when prescribing hormonal contraceptives, carefully evaluating women for about three months after they first start on the medications.
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And African women also have the highest unmet need for contraceptives, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a US-based reproductive rights think tank.
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One consideration with all oral contraceptives is the ability to take a pill every day as missed pills may lead to irregular bleeding.
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Or ensuring cheap, universal access to long-acting reversible contraceptives, to help poor women (who praise these devices) control when they start families.
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The Pill Club continues to be a participating pharmacy in our network and there is no impact on its customers' access to contraceptives.
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If I don't want dental care, contraceptives, mental health, or drug abuse coverage, why should I have to pay extra costs for them?
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In 2015, the agency provided enough contraceptives to people around the world to avert 220,000 child deaths and prevent 12.3 million unintended pregnancies.
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PATH is also conducting trials in Burkina Faso and Niger where community health workers are using the device to deliver contraceptives to women.
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The study also found that the risk increased the longer women used contraceptives involving hormones, suggesting the relationship is causal, Dr. Mørch said.
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Where it stands: Only 2% of drug companies' annual revenue from contraceptives goes back into research and development, according to the Gates Foundation.
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The nuns and some conservative religious groups contend that some contraceptives induce abortions, and the mandate has been challenged in multiple court cases.
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This allowed Notre Dame to continue its religious opposition to contraceptives while still meeting the ObamaCare requirement, according to the South Bend Tribune.
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Other types of extended-release contraceptives are already available, in the form of implants under the skin, intrauterine devices, vaginal rings and injectibles.
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Obama specifically said patients should have access to long-acting reversible contraceptives, like IUDs, which some anti-abortion groups consider to be abortifacients.
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Other drugs showing anti-cancer properties included a compound originally developed to treat diabetes called vanadium, and levonorgestrel, a hormone used in contraceptives.
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He established laws against harassment and discrimination, distributed contraceptives and is said to have spent his own money on lawyers for battered women.
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With the help of secret shoppers, researchers found that several online sites and apps that prescribed contraceptives were generally affordable, timely, and safe.
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The few times that such people were still able to get contraceptives involved rare conditions that these checklists probably weren't programmed to identify.
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Other types of extended-release contraceptives are already available, in the form of implants under the skin, intrauterine devices, vaginal rings and injectibles.
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It expanded a rule that made more entities exempt from providing plans that cover contraceptives without a copayment on the grounds of religion.
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Access to birth control has also increased since the passage of ObamaCare, which requires insurers to cover contraceptives without out-of-pocket costs.
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The administration could also change the eligibility requirements in order to favor clinics seeking to promote "natural" family planning instead of modern contraceptives.
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When faced with new information about hormonal contraceptives, Hill said she recommends people check in with themselves first before jumping to any conclusions.
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Her hesitation stems in part from the association of FABMs with anti-abortion activism and other people who fight against access to contraceptives.
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The Ethical and Religious Directives, for example, severely limit access to reproductive health care, including abortion, contraceptives, sterilization, and in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
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This allowed Notre Dame to continue its religious opposition to contraceptives while still meeting the ObamaCare requirement, according to the South Bend Tribune.
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In general, she said, the "regular use of contraceptives is a major contributor to health and to a reduction in pregnancy-associated mortality."
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Those rules also emphasized that female employees could obtain contraceptives at family-planning clinics as an alternative to seeking them through health insurance.
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One answer may be that not enough military women and their health providers even know that hormonal contraceptives used continuously will suppress menstruation.
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Cutting funding for health service providers like Planned Parenthood could reduce teens' access to contraceptives both by making the costs for IUDs and other long-term contraceptives prohibitively expensive (an IUD can cost as much as $1,000) and making them harder to find — and also by limiting options for those who can't use a birth control pill or condoms for health reasons.
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There's a realistic chance, Judge Gilliam wrote, that the exemption constitutes a "threat to [the states'] economic interests" as they would be "forced to pay for contraceptives that are no longer provided cost-free to women as guaranteed by the Affordable Care Act" and "suffer economic harm from the consequences of unintended pregnancies" stemming from fewer women enjoying access to affordable contraceptives.
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"Measures that may increase women's access to preferred contraceptives might include: improving insurance coverage for postpartum contraceptives, authorizing reimbursement for postpartum LARC and eliminating the 30-day waiting period for sterilization of Medicaid patients, and ensuring women have access to the full range of methods while they are still having regular or scheduled appointment with obstetric providers," Zapata told Reuters Health by email.
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According to Jenkins' letter, more details of the policy change, including a list of which contraceptives will be covered, will be available in March.
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The divested products include anesthetics, antibiotics, weight-loss drugs, oral contraceptives and treatments for a wide variety of diseases and conditions, the statement said.
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"Big pharma has largely lost interest in the development of male contraceptives," Elaine Lissner, founder of the Parsemus Foundation, told CNBC via e-mail.
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According to 2017 analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, contraceptives provided at Title X clinics have contributed to a significant decline in unintended pregnancy rates.
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While still relying on other contraceptives, male volunteers will apply the NES/T gel daily (to their arms and shoulders) for about 20 weeks.
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As surgeon general, Elders was outspoken about her progressive policies, such as drug legalization to reduce crime and the distribution of contraceptives in schools.
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Starting today, those in the Lone Star State will be able to tap the Nurx app and get contraceptives delivered straight to their door.
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Even in England, with its well-run sexual-health clinics and policy of providing contraceptives free, about a fifth of pregnancies end in abortion.
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The CDC recommends maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, and discussing the risks of using oral contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy with your doctor.
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"It's stuff people don't want to talk about, and I figured: If I'm involved, maybe they'll talk about it," says Sheen of the contraceptives.
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At the time, under China's one-child policy, women who already had children were sterilised or forced to have long-term contraceptives surgically inserted.
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More optimistic, since it suggests better policies could turn things around, is the theory that poor access to modern contraceptives is the main problem.
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Plus, more women are opting for long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) instead of more traditional short-term methods like birth control pills or condoms.
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Using your phone as birth control sounds pretty dope, especially in a world where our reproductive rights and access to contraceptives are under attack.
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Of them, roughly 9 million were on the Pill, and another 7.4 million had long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) like IUDs and arm implants.
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At the same time, there is also a push to introduce over-the-counter birth control pills, which could radically increase access to contraceptives.
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And various family planning measures were illegal in the United States at the time -- the Comstock Laws outlawed the use of contraceptives and abortifacients.
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Like other long-acting contraceptives, Annovera can be worn during penetrative sex, and the majority of women do not feel the device during sex.
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Women on the Pause scheme use long-acting contraceptives for 18 months, while receiving counselling and support to meet their housing or educational needs.
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"Women and young girls who are using hormonal contraceptives may be self-aborting their babies and do not even know it," one brochure warns.
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A Walgreens representative said simply that they "do not offer oral contraceptives without a doctor's prescription" and have no current plans to do so.
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During a visit from a campaign volunteer, Ghanem said her wish to have a boy was not the main reason she wasn't using contraceptives.
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Birnbaum says she would recommend withholding pill use till you find a long-term partner, and use alternative non-hormonal contraceptives in the meantime.
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It's impossible to view them and not consider the discourse around these treatments in today's age, particularly those that may be used as contraceptives.
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But she says that it's become much more difficult to stop women from turning to backstreet abortions, now that contraceptives are unaffordable for most.
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The couple was criticized before Bodhi was born for comments Ian made about sneakily throwing out his wife's contraceptives so she would get pregnant.
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The list of essential medicines contains 201 drugs needed for a basic healthcare system and includes HIV, malaria and cancer drugs, vaccines and contraceptives.
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Those who avoided blood clots and other side effects associated with early oral contraceptives, enthusiastically recommended at the time, look back and feel similarly.
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It would have been great if he'd told Matthews that he wanted to fight abortion by giving women easy, low-cost access to contraceptives.
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America's teen birth rate has fallen by half over the past decade, a stunning public health victory largely attributed to better use of contraceptives.
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In Texas, women who used to have access to efficient methods of birth control like injectable contraceptives are showing huge jumps in pregnancy rates.
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Based on information from a national prescription registry, 8 percent of mothers had stopped using oral contraceptives within the three months before becoming pregnant.
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If Trump does indeed defund Planned Parenthood, I would be left without affordable healthcare for routine STI testing, contraceptives, and other sexual health services.
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WASHINGTON — A federal court on Friday blocked Trump administration rules that made it easier for employers to deny insurance coverage of contraceptives for women.
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In interviews, part of a national survey conducted from 43 to 2017, women were asked about their use of contraceptives in the current month.
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With the release of so-called "menstrual suppressing" contraceptives like Seasonale and Lybrel came lively debate about the safety and politics of skipping periods.
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That change coincides pretty well with the decline in unintended births, which is why researchers believe these more effective contraceptives are largely to thank.
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The Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, required most private health insurance plans to cover contraceptives without out-of-pocket costs (The Associated Press).
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And if oral contraceptives were over-the-counter — which we know is safe — many people could start first-line therapy if they so choose.
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The challenge was brought by a religious group that argued it was being forced to provide health coverage for contraceptives despite its religious objections.
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But the Trump administration says the law does not explicitly require coverage of contraceptives — an argument Mr. Bowman made for plaintiffs in court cases.
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He thought the Griswold case that said married couples need to have access to contraceptives was unconstitutional because it violated the right to privacy.
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This includes religiously affiliated charities and hospitals and "closely held" private businesses that believe paying for contraceptives would violate their religious or moral beliefs.
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It ruled that he overstepped by trying to force family businesses like Hobby Lobby to pay for insurance coverage of contraceptives despite their religious beliefs.
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If you as an individual are worried about or have questions about which contraceptives you should use, turn to your care for help and advice.
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The act also allows women to receive birth control six months at a time and lifts pre-authorization for long-acting reversible contraceptives and IUDs.
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Even in some countries with generous social welfare systems, including Germany and Italy, women have to pay for contraceptives, no matter how low their income.
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In addition to cultural advancements coordinated efforts have driven technical improvements in the supply and distribution of contraceptives across Senegal, but especially in urban areas.
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In a midair news conference while flying home to Rome from Mexico, Francis said that contraceptives could be used to prevent the spread of Zika.
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But Senator Loren Legarda, head of the Senate Committee on Finance, said the Department of Health (DOH) still had enough funds for contraceptives for 2016.
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"As far as whether Planned Parenthood, you know, provides, you know, contraceptives or things like that, that's something that gets in the middle," he said.
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As a result, people covered by the school would no longer have access to intra-uterine devices and emergency contraceptives, previously covered through the administrator.
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Additionally, because modern contraceptives are not completely subsidized by the government, most women only seek contraception when it's offered for free by NGOs like EngenderHealth.
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The plan was to blanket the villages with seven contraceptives plus a set of instructions every week for every male aged between 15 and 75.
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The girls in places with contraceptives stayed in school six months longer, or about a year longer if they were born after the programmes began.
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In 2012, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists first expressed its favor of over-the-counter availability of oral contraceptives in a position statement.
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Despite the progress we've made in making birth control more accessible, many of us are still having a hard time getting the contraceptives we need.
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As recently as 2008, according to the Guttmacher Institute, one third of American kids ages 20133 to 19 weren't taught anything about contraceptives in school.
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The research we have on the population-level impact of contraceptives is indeed observational, and observational studies can only describe correlations between phenomena, not causation.
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Nearly 13 percent of married women of reproductive age in Egypt want to use contraceptives but are unable to, according to official data from 2014.
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In Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country in the world, radicals employ intimidation tactics like raiding mini-marts to confiscate what they call "unregulated" contraceptives.
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While it's unlikely women are choosing to take oral contraception while pregnant, some women experience what the researchers call "breakthrough pregnancies" while they're taking contraceptives.
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Overall, it is estimated that that contraceptives make up 30% to 44% of women's out-of-pocket health care spending for women using them. 3.
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Younger women in the military, like other young women, are also less likely to use contraceptives consistently or effectively, increasing their risk of unplanned pregnancies.
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Some states are trying other ways to broaden access, led by California and Oregon, which recently implemented laws allowing pharmacists to prescribe contraceptives in drugstores.
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And in some states pharmacists are now able to prescribe hormonal contraceptives and opioid reversal agents to make these important therapies as accessible as possible.
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But sanitary pads -- which cost between five rupees ($0.08) and 12 rupees ($0.20) each -- were taxed at 12%, despite other items like contraceptives being exempt.
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The sharp decline in American teenage pregnancy and birthrates in recent years was driven exclusively by the increased use of contraceptives, a new study concludes.
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Four million individuals, who otherwise could not afford it, receive care at Title X-funded health centers across the country for contraceptives and preventative services.
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Women in the United States, when we were finally able to really use contraceptives, look what it did to women going into the work force.
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After being prescribed certain hormonal contraceptives, females no longer miss one or more days per month of school or work due to incapacitating menstrual symptoms.
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It was an illegal move that got Sanger arrested, since even information about contraceptives was banned as "obscene" material under the Comstock Law of 270.
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"Why don't we assume that if the majority are part of the religion, that they are not going to buy contraceptives?" she asked Mr. Francisco.
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By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) - Women who accidentally keep taking oral contraceptives after becoming pregnant shouldn't worry about birth defects, a new study suggests.
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Since migraine sufferers were known to already be at a higher-than-average risk of stroke, these women were told to avoid combined oral contraceptives.
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On the other hand, if more reliable contraceptives are developed and virtually end unintended pregnancies the world over, birthrates could fall much faster than predicted.
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New York, for example, announced in January that it would mandate all insurance plans in the state to cover contraceptives at no cost to patients.
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But many doctors who prescribe contraceptives say there's no cause for alarm — and no one should throw away her pills and risk an unwanted pregnancy.
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The study, which followed 1.8 million Danish women for more than a decade, upends widely held assumptions about modern contraceptives for younger generations of women.
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Many women have believed that newer hormonal contraceptives are much safer than those taken by their mothers or grandmothers, which had higher doses of estrogen.
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And it would allow insurers and employers to provide a separate insurance policy excluding coverage of contraceptives to individuals who have religious or moral objections.
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Notably, the most successful program helped teenage mothers in Columbus, Ohio, avoid another pregnancy, partly by directing them toward long-acting contraceptives, Mr. Baron said.
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The Trump administration has also proposed eliminating $524 million in funding for contraceptives and other family planning efforts that mostly benefit women in developing nations.
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The teen birthrate has fallen dramatically because of better access to contraceptives (and perhaps other factors), but other aspects of the decline are less benign.
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Some have gotten creative about making up their lost funding streams and access to discounted contraceptives by, for instance, leaning more heavily on individual donations.
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Several states are expanding access by requiring insurers to cover a year's supply of contraceptives at a time, and others are considering "contraceptive equity" bills.
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Emergency contraceptives, like Plan B One-Step, use a synthetic hormone called levonorgestrel, which mimics the sex hormone progesterone, which prevents ovulation and, hence, pregnancy.
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With those dollars, providers gave their clients desperately needed care for themselves and their families — services that included contraceptives, maternal care, and HIV/AIDS prevention.
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Those employees would be forced to go outside their employer-provided insurance plan for subsidized contraceptives, said Lori Windham, a lawyer who represents the group.
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And no wonder: The pill is a simple and effective method of birth control — with perfect usage, oral contraceptives are 99% effective at preventing pregnancy.
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Because the organizations that will lose funds deliver a very broad range of services: mother and child medical care, contraceptives, sexual education for young people.
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As soon as abortion became legal in Nepal, the Family Planning Association of Nepal, the largest organization providing contraceptives, lost part of its American funding.
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The announcement could serve a second purpose: clarifying to insurers and the insured alike what reproductive services and contraceptives must be available at no cost.
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But we should also look at society's irresponsibility in failing to help all women and girls get access to long-acting reversible contraceptives, or LARCs.
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By contrast, long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) like IUDs and implants are placed by health professionals and last for at least three years after insertion.
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The data comprised the whole of the emergency contraception category, including Plan B and other over-the-counter contraceptives, such as generic brands like Take Action.
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The same summary quoted Dr. Eve Espey, chair of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology's work group on long-acting reversible contraceptives, which includes IUDs.
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No word yet on whether the religious right will do as much to prevent men from accessing birth control as it does with female contraceptives.[NIH]
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"Big pharma has not shown interest in pursuing the development of any new option that might simply cannibalize the market for their existing contraceptives," he said.
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Contraceptives are in short supply in Venezuela, with most pharmacies sold out, so it's largely up to black marketeers like Beatriz to supply women with them.
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The Trump administration had a few options for undercutting the health care law's requirement that all health plans cover contraceptives at no cost to the woman.
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Today's oral contraceptives deliver much lower doses of estrogen and progestin than early versions of the Pill, reducing the risk of potentially fatal events like these.
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One way of doing so is to make contraceptives available, concludes a new working paper by Kimberly Singer Babiarz at Stanford University and four other researchers.
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In the United States, 17.5% of women aged 15-44 using birth control are taking oral contraceptives, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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"We know that when family planning services and contraceptives are easily accessible, there are fewer unplanned pregnancies, maternal deaths, and abortions," she said in a statement.
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They go on to cite research suggesting oral contraceptives increases the risk of deep vein thrombosis in women, and question the Pill's effects on cancer risk.
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The study estimates 55 cases of breast cancer among every 100,000 women who do not use hormonal contraceptives and 68 cases among every 100,000 who do.
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Many women in Africa, Asia and Latin America lack the resources and facilities to get hold of modern contraceptives, according to the U.S.-based research group.
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Some families want and can afford blanket coverage that insures them for everything from cancer to contraceptives to drug addiction to dental care to the sniffles.
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It's especially concerning for people who use hormonal contraceptives, as consuming activated charcoal within just a few hours of taking the pill can reduce its efficiency.
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There are more than 220 million women in developing countries who don't want to get pregnant but who lack access to family planning information and contraceptives.
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"There's actually no direct evidence in it at all that heavier women are avoiding oral contraceptives because of concerns over weight gain," she says over email.
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Accordingly, privacy and autonomy rights including the right to access to medical contraceptives must be protected and gender discriminatory laws must be subjected to rigorous scrutiny.
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A study of how the Affordable Care Act changed out-of-pocket spending on contraceptives found oral contraceptive costs declined 38% and IUD costs fell 68%.
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The Real Alternatives contract stipulated that the organization and its subcontractors must "actively promote childbirth" and must not refer clients to abortion providers or promote contraceptives.
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How could it impact you: The Obamacare birth control mandate gave more than 55 million women in the U.S. access contraceptives without out-of-pocket costs.
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In late March, the administration announced it would award a $1.7 million grant to chain of crisis pregnancy centers that oppose abortion and don't offer contraceptives.
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Long-acting contraception Long-acting reversible contraceptives, including intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants, were used by 10.3% of respondents, making them the third most common method.
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This type of behavior can include: hiding or stealing birth control pills, preventing women from obtaining hormonal contraceptives, sabotaging condoms or even removing condoms during sex.
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Lifestyle factors also affect caffeine metabolism, including pregnancy and the use of oral contraceptives, both of which slow caffeine metabolism in the body, according to Sweeney.
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At that point, those organizations have no further role in the process; the government takes over and ensures that employees are given free access to contraceptives.
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But it also limits subcontractors to "exclusively those who promote childbirth," meaning none of these CPCs can provide comprehensive reproductive health services, like contraceptives or abortion.
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But it felt a lot like her "Birth Control" sketch, in which she must ask every man in her life if she can have oral contraceptives.
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Moreover, those who feel uncomfortable asking someone face-to-face about emergency contraceptives can now have safe access to the resource without having to identify themselves.
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UNFPA says about a third of married women in Tanzania use contraceptives, but Magufuli has criticized Western-backed family planning programs implemented by the health ministry.
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The researchers saw a 9% increased breast cancer risk among women taking hormonal contraceptives for under a year, rising to 38% if more than 10 years.
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Dr. Sokkary said that doctors may mistakenly prescribe oral contraceptives for a girl whose irregular or absent menstrual cycle is really caused by an eating disorder.
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One thing the data definitely shows is a decline in condom use — but an increase in the usage of long-acting contraceptives, like IUDs and implants.
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Under the gag rule, regular access to contraceptives becomes patchy, and the number of unwanted pregnancies increases, leading to more unsafe abortions and more women dying.
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These are the plans that existed before Obamacare that do not have to comply with the contraceptives mandate (or most other Obamacare requirements, for that matter).
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In 2005, he authored an opinion ruling that employers' failure to cover the cost of female contraceptives does not amount to sex discrimination under Title VII.
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There have been past efforts to compel women to use long-acting contraceptives as a condition of probation, and even episodes of forced or unrequested sterilization.
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A staunch Catholic, Mr. Cosgrave stunned his party colleagues in 1974 by opposing his own government's bill that would have allowed married couples to obtain contraceptives.
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"We have to balance a woman's choice of insurance that she would want with the conscience of employers" who may object to covering contraceptives, he said.
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Women and couples use contraceptives to avoid unintended pregnancy, to help time births to allow for healthy spacing between them, and to achieve desired family size.
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Twenty-six states require abstinence be a factor in public sex education, though in most cases it is promoted alongside information on contraceptives and sexual orientation.
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What I was unprepared for was the day I received a phone call from my father's skilled nursing facility asking for permission to provide him contraceptives.
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While better-off women in cities can purchase modern contraceptives, poor and rural women—those most affected by the Zika crisis—often have difficulty doing so.
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That's why the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) supports affordable, reliable access for American women to the contraceptives they need, when they need them.
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Since the contraceptives are prescribed by a pharmacist and not technically over-the-counter medication, insurance companies are still required by law to cover the cost.
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This year, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take a major step toward modernizing that system, introducing injectable contraceptives free of charge in government facilities.
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Unlike January's Tide Pod Challenge, there was no critical mass of teenagers talking about flossing their nostrils with contraceptives—but that didn't stop people from claiming otherwise.
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The various family planning options currently available, including long acting reversible contraceptives and vasectomies, "shouldn't be based on your copay or your ability to pay," noted Pearson.
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The policy also requires that ads for contraceptives cannot focus on sexual pleasure or sexual enhancement, and have to be targeted to people 18 years or older.
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Preliminary results were presented at a scientific meeting in May, reporting slightly increased sexual desire among women, regardless of whether they were or weren't taking oral contraceptives.
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We have seen the end of a program that provides free contraceptives to 22020,000 women and girls living in poverty, and broad shortages in family planning supplies.
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MANILA (Reuters) - A presidential intervention to provide free contraceptives in the predominantly Catholic Philippines looked set to face hurdles, with conservatives and church leaders preparing possible challenges.
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The big improvements in birth control technology are the emergency contraception pill and long-acting reversible contraceptives, known as LARCs, which include intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants.
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A team of experts reviewing decades worth of research concluded that all the evidence supports shifting oral contraceptives from prescription-only to over-the-counter (OTC) availability.
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As has happened across the developed world, the number of unintended pregnancies has fallen in America as the use of contraceptives has spread, particularly among young people.
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Nurx then sends your info to one of its network of doctors who then write you up a quick prescription and Nurx readies your contraceptives for delivery.
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Two or three out of every 100 women between 15 and 19 years old who take hormonal contraceptives will become depressed over the course of a year.
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In 2014, the justices divided 5-4 with Scalia in the majority to allow some "closely held" businesses with religious objections to refuse to pay for contraceptives.
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Long-acting, reversible contraceptives (LARCs) like implants and intrauterine devices (IUDs) are way more effective at preventing pregnancy — they fail less than 8.53 percent of the time.
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"There is a lot of stigma against adolescents using contraceptives and about having sex," said Dr. Candace Lew, a senior technical adviser for contraception at Pathfinder International.
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It's a follow-on to the Hobby Lobby case, where in 2014, the court sided with closely held for-profit companies that objected to providing certain contraceptives.
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For nearly 60 years, hormonal contraceptives have freed women from their own biology, giving them autonomy over decisions about if, when, and how to start a family.
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But, crucially, drug makers' commitment to contraceptives has always been tentative, particularly when it comes to products for men – and today, the whole contraceptive industry is struggling.
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A single crumpled piece of A4 paper on an almost-bare wall in Anderson's office illustrates how hormonal male contraceptives work, reducing men to brain and balls.
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"That is not part of our program," she said at a press conference when asked about contraceptives being covered as preventative care under employer-sponsored health plans.
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More than 77 percent of women and 64 percent of men support the no-cost contraceptives coverage, according to a 2015 Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation survey.
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"Contraceptives are not a solution," Bishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, the secretary general of the National Council of Bishops of Brazil, said in an interview earlier this month.
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In 2020, I want sex education so women can be informed about their reproductive choices, contraceptives on demand, and legal, safe abortion so women stop dying needlessly.
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At least 214 million women in developing nations cannot get access to contraceptives - resulting in 89 million unintended pregnancies and 48 million abortions each year, says UNFPA.
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While you should always be careful about ordering contraceptives online, hopefully eliminating the middleman will mean that the products are more regulated and therefore safe to use.
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Both organizations, however, used the money to help elect lawmakers who voted to eliminate funding for access to contraceptives through programs like Title X and Planned Parenthood.
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Correction: This story was updated to reflect that the number of women with out-of-pocket expenditures on contraceptives has dropped from 21% pre-Obamacare to 3%.
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In her testimony, Fluke said that students paid as much as $1,000 a year for contraceptives and made the case that religious institutions should cover birth control.
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A bill to teach sex education and provide access to contraceptives in schools was introduced into Kenya's upper house of parliament in 2014, provoking a national outcry.
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It means that women get their contraceptives covered through their existing insurance plan, without having to seek out a separate insurer or apply for a separate policy.
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Supporters of the administration warn those women could be forced to pay hundreds of dollars out of pocket for contraceptives if the court sides with the challengers.
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With money from donor governments, foundations and the private sector, these funds deliver vaccines, drug treatments, contraceptives and other lifesaving health supplies to people who need them.
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HHS first announced its contraceptive mandate August 1, 2011, when it ordered even conscientiously objecting religious employers to cover contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilizations in their health plans.
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Initially, she tried to think of ways to create more demand among teenagers for contraceptives, but then she realized that the problem was coming from medical workers.
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This term alone, major cases involving abortion rights, religious freedom and women's access to contraceptives, voting rights and Mr. Obama's actions on immigration are all at risk.
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That increase coincided with a 36 percent drop in benefit claims for long-acting contraceptives like IUDs, which are among the most effective forms of birth control.
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Abortion rate per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 The declining abortion rates in the developed world, experts say, tell a story about better access to contraceptives.
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Birth control itself is getting better, too: Long-acting, reversible contraceptives like implants and modern IUDs have only come on the market over the past two decades.
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They've also noticed an uptick in patients requesting long-acting reversible contraceptives, like IUDs, because they're concerned it'll be harder to get other forms of birth control.
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While Planned Parenthood reports a 76 percent effectiveness rate for typical FAM users, apps like Natural Cycles claim a potential effectiveness rate that rivals some hormonal contraceptives.
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But this is misleading as well: Many religious conservatives would still object to funding contraceptives, and many small-government conservatives would oppose public health care spending, period.
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Almost two-thirds of women of childbearing age in the United States use contraceptives, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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" In Vermont's Education Code, students are taught comprehensive sexuality education, including "information regarding the possible outcomes of premature sexual activity, contraceptives, adolescent pregnancy, childbirth, adoption, and abortion.
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No. Women should have safe and affordable access to the full range of family planning services and reproductive care, including oral contraception, long-acting contraceptives, and abortion.
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One set of developments I wrote about this year are birth control apps and websites that allow women to get prescription contraceptives without going to a doctor.
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When Ruby gets upset over the insinuation that she's taken the morning after pill before, Otis makes sure she knows there's nothing humiliating about using emergency contraceptives.
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And according to Vitti's FLOLiving website, "Being on the pill is not ideal for cycle-syncing, since hormonal contraceptives block the natural hormonal patterns in your system".
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According to the advocacy group the National Women's Law Center, reports of women being denied emergency contraceptives or birth control have surfaced in at least 24 states.
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While the law didn't turn hormonal contraceptives into an over-the-counter medication, it did make birth control much easier to access for women 18 and over.
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Ms. Talento, a former aide to Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, spent years warning about the health risks of certain contraceptives, especially birth control pills.
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"Requiring a pharmacist to prescribe and dispense oral contraceptives only replaces one barrier — a physician's prescription — with another," ACOG president Dr. Mark DeFrancesco said in a statement.
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Their opposition to these contraceptives rests on the claim that a pregnancy begins at fertilization, instead of at implantation (as recognized by physicians and even the federal government).
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What works is well known: campaigns to educate couples about the various methods; training for doctors and nurses in birth-control counselling; and making contraceptives easy to get.
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However, it's a hormonal contraceptive, so, like other contraceptives, it uses a combination of female hormones such as progestin and estrogen to suppress ovulation and help prevent pregnancy.
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Just as many Africans leapfrogged from no phones to mobile phones, and from no power to solar power, so they can jump to innovations like self-injected contraceptives.
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In Brazil, the country with the world's largest Roman Catholic population, broad access to contraceptives has contributed to a plummeting fertility rate of just 1.77 children per woman.
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Although the church does not openly speak out against contraception in Mexico, conservative Catholic organizations often work in subtle ways to prevent adolescents from having access to contraceptives.
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Hobby Lobby allowed some family-owned or other closely held businesses to opt out of a federal requirement to pay for contraceptives in health coverage for their workers.
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To be incredibly clear: Having access to a range of contraceptives is a right, and birth control is necessary for women's health for myriad reasons besides preventing pregnancy.
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Reproductive rights advocates in the Philippines fought for more than a decade to pass the 2012 Reproductive Health Law, which guaranteed funds to provide contraceptives to the poor.
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Instead, they found that teens were using contraceptives more often, combining methods more often, and using more effective methods, such as the birth control pill, IUDs and implants.
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The lack of a resolution leaves the government able for now to ensure that women covered by faith-based groups' health plans have access to cost-free contraceptives.
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Most children at state schools attend religious classes but get little in the way of sex education, while doctors can refuse contraceptives to unmarried women on religious grounds.
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The organisation's provision of contraceptives prevent unwanted pregnancies, abortions and sexually-transmitted diseases, which are a lot more expensive to care for, carry out and treat than prophylactics.
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They learned that calling these methods "long-acting reversible contraceptives" didn't resonate with the young women because they were concerned about the permanence of the methods, said Ehrlich.
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One study conducted by the CDC found that teens who use LARCs were 60 percent less likely to use a condom than their peers who used oral contraceptives.
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"The thing that actually reduces the number of abortions — access to healthcare, access to contraceptives, comprehensive sex ed — these are the things that actually reduce abortions," said Linder.
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This would eliminate one more obstacle to obtaining contraceptives: Without a prescription, women could grab birth control pills off the shelf during hours when the pharmacy was closed.
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The same survey found condoms were the most popular form of birth control (54.3 percent), followed by oral contraceptives (43.7 percent) and withdrawal, or pulling out (11.6 percent).
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They also found nine young women from Russia and Ukraine — two were 16 years old — and "a huge amount of contraceptives," according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
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If the country you're looking for isn't on this list, the ICEC has an in-depth database with the status and availability of emergency contraceptives on their website.
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The fertility rate fell from 5.6 children per woman in 1976 to 3.0 in 2008 while the use of contraceptives went up from 0003 percent to 60.3 percent.
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This obviously has a lot of implications on life in Venezuela—one of them being that some Venezuelans, given the scarcity of contraceptives, are wary to have sex.
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The FP2020 initiative started in 2012 with the goal of enabling 120 million more women and girls in developing countries to use modern contraceptives by the year 2020.
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Now, as nature has taken its course and contraceptives have not, there is apparently a baby boom in Iceland, as reported by the Independent, via Icelandic newspaper Visir.
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The justices turned away an appeal by a family-owned pharmacy that cited Christian beliefs in objecting to providing emergency contraceptives to women under a Washington state rule.
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Doctors should be having more detailed discussions with women before prescribing them birth control, say researchers who have been studying the risks and benefits of hormone-based contraceptives.
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According to the Orange County Register, that state's pharmacy board finalized its protocols for prescribing contraceptives and, as of June, was waiting for approval from other state agencies.
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He didn't directly condone the use of contraceptives, but his comments were in direct violation of classic Catholic teaching which strictly forbids artificial efforts to stave off pregnancy.
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And long-acting contraceptives, like intrauterine devices, or IUDs, which were developed in the early 19783s, were difficult to insert and remove and could have severe side effects.
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And through the CDC Foundation, pharmaceutical companies like Bayer, Allergan and Merck have donated or discounted more than 100,000 sets of IUD's, implants, vaginal rings and other contraceptives.
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Each year 13 percent of women on LARCs get pregnant, compared with 9 percent of women on oral contraceptives and 18 percent of those who rely on condoms.
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Of the other four clinics under Obria's oversight, two will provide contraceptives, but won't be allowed to use Title X funds to pay for it, a spokesperson said.
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That's partly because of meager U.S. sex education, and partly because of a lack of access to contraception, particularly LARCs — long-acting reversible contraceptives, like implants and IUDs.
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Look at it this way and it's easy to understand why abortion opponents have shown virtually no interest in working to make contraceptives and family planning universally available.
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The Lagos-based startup is distributing self-testing kits for HIV, Hepatitis B and Syphilis on a strictly anonymous basis, as well as contraceptives for men and women.
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Researchers said the $264 billion would be used for interventions like hiring medical staff, purchasing drugs, contraceptives and obstetric supplies, research, providing counselling and boost community outreach programmes.
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The law – which went into effect on January 1 – allows pharmacists to prescribe the oral contraceptives and patches after patients fill out a questionnaire about their medical history.
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And according to tweets from SB Nation's Rodger Sherman and NPR's Tom Goldman, there are employees tasked with carrying large sacks of free contraceptives around the Olympic park.
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According to a report released this month by the Guttmacher Institute, 24 states do not explicitly give all minors the right to receive contraceptives without their parents' permission.
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The risk of breast cancer increases with age, as does the risk of complications associated with oral contraceptives, such as blood clots in the legs and the lungs.
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So far, manufacturers of only a few types of oral contraceptives have announced their intention to apply for over-the-counter status, and the process can take years.
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This remained true even after adjusting for more than a dozen other factors like family history, education level, physical activity and use of hormonal supplements or oral contraceptives.
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The two-page executive order does address religious objections to the Obama administration's mandate in the Affordable Care Act requiring employers to cover contraceptives in their insurance plans.
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In 2011, President Obama's top health official overruled experts at the Food and Drug Administration who had concluded that over-the-counter emergency contraceptives were safe for minors.
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Young women and parents of teens should know that prescribing most contraceptives and testing for many STIs doesn't require pelvic exams or cervical cancer screening, the researchers note.
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Mr. Hichborn said he had discovered that the aid organization was promoting the use of condoms and other contraceptives in Africa and Myanmar, a violation of church rules.
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The fear of weight gain is decades oldWhen oral contraceptives first came out in 1960, the amount of estrogen and progestin was much higher than it is today.
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Fox suggests this could be because teens in conservative states who want to practice safe sex have less support, both culturally and in terms of accessories like contraceptives.
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And there is research that more low-income Americans have visited a doctor and have received some basic preventive health services, including prescription contraceptives and treatments for diabetes.
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In practice, this meant avoiding investments in the manufacturers of military weapons, companies in the pornography business and others that have anything to do with abortion or contraceptives.
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The mandate provides contraceptives without cost-sharing, thereby removing cost as a barrier and providing a level of economic stability for women who want to prevent unintended pregnancies.
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But it's also true Planned Parenthood is a key part of the American health care safety net and one of the largest providers of contraceptives in the country.
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And due in large part to expanded access to these highly-effective types of contraceptives, the rate of unintended pregnancies in the U.S. is at a 30-year low.
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Elise Berlan, the lead physician of the Young Women's Contraceptive Services Program at the Nationwide Children's Hospital, described the role that widespread access to contraceptives played in this decline.
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One in three women of reproductive age in Latin America who would like to use contraceptives do not have access to them, according to the United Nations Population Fund.
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If they did, it would probably be to tell new parents that that it's best for your body and your baby to wait and use contraceptives to avoid pregnancy.
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Salganicoff said that the push to educate women and providers about long-acting contraceptives was in part because of how difficult natural family planning methods are to use successfully.
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Contraceptives could also play a role, Livingston said, because there are an increasing number of long-term options, such as hormonal IUDs, to help women manage their reproductive life.
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One year after the infamous Access Hollywood tape, which featured the president bragging about sexual assault, became public, his administration is making it harder for women to access contraceptives.
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In particular, allowing states to get rid of the requirements would make it harder for Americans to afford the long-acting contraceptives that are most effective at preventing pregnancy.
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Family planning providers in another 16 countries (also mainly in Africa) lost access to condoms and contraceptives because they refused to accept the conditions of the Mexico City Policy.
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists expressed a similar position in 2012 when it indicated in a "committee opinion" that oral contraceptives should be available over the counter.
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The study, from the University of Aberdeen, followed 46,000 women over the course of up to 44 years, in the longest-running study on the effects of oral contraceptives.
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Many brands of oral contraceptives still warn girls that blood clots and heart problems could become an issue for them if they already have family histories with those problems.
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While it is not clear yet how Trump will proceed with his pledge, some patients want to ensure they have a contraceptives plan in place, Planned Parenthood officials said.
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The numbers: Scientists studied 1.8 million Danish women for over a decade and found those who used hormonal contraceptives had about a 20% increased risk of developing breast cancer.
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The Supreme Court in 2014 allowed certain businesses to object on religious grounds to the Obamacare law's requirement that companies provide employees with insurance that pays for women's contraceptives.
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Taken together, he says, it's time to re-evaluate hormonal contraceptives and remind doctors that they should be discussing the risks and benefits of the drugs before prescribing them.
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Wilson Bunde, who works with FHOK, said women like Dija, who were coming to the Kibera clinic for free contraceptives, are returning to be treated for botched abortions instead.
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Borwein also points out that oral contraceptives are associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism, or blood clots in veins, and air travel itself adds to that risk.
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And the adolescent girl in Guatemala works as a community health promoter, distributing the same contraceptives she once sought in secret to dozens of women in her rural community.
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Before that, I had a very casual relationship with oral contraceptives, in that I technically had an active prescription for the pill but only deigned to take it sometimes.
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Under current federal law, most private and employer-based insurance plans are required to cover contraceptives as "essential health benefits," without imposing any cost-sharing burdens on the customer.
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Under Obamacare, women have enjoyed free access to contraceptives, but if Trump repeals (or even just reforms) Obama's healthcare legislation, that right to free contraception is likely to disappear.
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At the ball there, about 2010 community-based organizations such as the Ali Forney Center and Housing Works were present to offer contraceptives, health services and HIV-prevention materials.
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The company also said that American women were becoming less interested in permanent contraception, and instead were relying more on other birth control options, like long-acting reversible contraceptives.
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Under a legal "conscience clause," Polish doctors can refuse to prescribe birth control, and pharmacists often refuse to dispense it, making it hard — sometimes impossible — to obtain prescription contraceptives.
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Wider usage of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) is especially helping unmarried women avoid unintended pregnancy (from 1.5 percent LARC usage in 22010 to 265 percent in 275-21990).
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Medical Association, and the American Academy of Family Physicians agree that oral contraceptives are appropriate for over-the-counter use.
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More than 59.93 percent used long-acting reversible contraceptives, or L.A.R.C.'s — hormone-releasing rods inserted under the skin, or intrauterine devices that prevent implantation of the fertilized egg.
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The lead author, Kara A. Michels, an epidemiologist with the National Cancer Institute, said that most women are not thinking of cancer prevention when they start using oral contraceptives.
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Programs that receive Title X funding provide a range of services, including family counseling, preventive health screenings for breast and cervical cancers, contraceptives, and treatment for sexually transmitted infections.
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The Obama administration and the National Academy of Sciences cited studies showing that as the use of contraceptives has gone up, the rate of unintended pregnancies has come down.
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In 1977, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of minors having access to contraception, striking down a New York law that had prohibited the sale of contraceptives to minors.
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While Pennsylvania standards only require that students learn about HIV, STDs and abstinence, my health class was relatively comprehensive, including information about contraceptives, LGBT terminology and drugs and alcohol.
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But the Trump administration has issued rules, blocked by the courts, that would allow some employers to opt out of the requirement if they have religious objections to contraceptives.
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Reimbursements for long-acting reversible contraceptives like IUDs, some of the most effective forms of pregnancy prevention, fell by more than 35 percent after the exclusion of Planned Parenthood.
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Countries that have seen falling abortion rates since the '90s are more likely to be developed countries, which tend to have fewer abortion restrictions and wider access to contraceptives.
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By offering such contraceptives, Colorado has cut the birthrate and abortion rate among teenagers by half in the last seven years, saving the state tens of millions of dollars.
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The one proven way to reduce abortions is to make contraceptives easily accessible, and for those abortions that are performed, there should be facilities for early and safe abortions.
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"Women who lose their entitlement to cost-free contraceptives are less likely to use an effective method, or any method at all — resulting in unintended pregnancies," Judge Gilliam said.
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Given the existing literature showing that hormonal contraception reduces both cancer-related and all-cause mortality, raising false alarms about the safety of contraceptives is a disservice to women.
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For example: Prescriptions for long-acting, reversible contraceptives including IUDs and birth control implants plummeted by 35.5 percent in counties where Planned Parenthood clinics shuttered after the new law.
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"Contraceptives are not a solution," said Bishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, the secretary general of the National Council of Bishops of Brazil, and an auxiliary bishop of Brasília, in an interview.
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But if too many moderns decided that having children is not worth it and human extinction really loomed, we might have to outlaw contraceptives and welcome back the bedroom police.
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And some drugs might completely miss their desired effects with a small drop in potency; these include epinephrine; theophylline; oral contraceptives; and drugs for epilepsy, heart disease, and thyroid issues.
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Most women opt instead to use contraceptives and put their periods on hold, both in preparation for and during spaceflight, as highlighted in the paper by Jain and her colleagues.
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In Macedonia, where less than a fifth of women use contraceptives, some doctors view the IUD as a "foreign body" akin to a surgical tool accidentally left inside a patient.
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In Louga, 1203 km (110 miles) from the capital Dakar, Aissatou and her fellow volunteers visit homes, talk on radio shows, and work with imams to challenge stigma surrounding contraceptives.
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Indeed, the abortion rate has hit an all-time low in recent years, and experts say better access to long-acting reversible contraceptives like IUDs is likely the reason why.
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While I learned that it was bad to have sex outside of marriage, I also learned that condoms prevented STDs and that I could take oral contraceptives to prevent pregnancy.
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It launched in 2015 to facilitate women's access to birth control across the U.S. with a HIPAA-compliant web platform and mobile application that delivers contraceptives directly to customers' doorsteps.
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The team of researchers reviewed copious data related to teenagers who take oral contraceptives and found they are indubitably capable of taking the pill responsibly—in fact, many already are.
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The number of privately insured women seeking long-acting reversible contraceptives significantly increased in the 21 days following President Donald Trump's election in 1003, according to a study published Monday.
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" Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that she was worried "because there are some women who don't adhere" to the religious tenet of their employers and "have a real need for contraceptives.
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But in a market where side effects from drugs have made it difficult for male contraceptives to gain much traction, the idea represents a potentially lucrative new route of inquiry.
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" In an email to Mashable, a CVS spokesperson explained that, "Our coverage of contraceptives is widespread throughout our network of 43,000 pharmacies, ensuring accessible and affordable access to our members.
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For this work, researchers gave out free contraceptives to local teenagers, and followed them for up to three years to see what happened to their rates of pregnancy and abortion.
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This would inevitably lead to women who work at those companies having to pay out-of-pocket for contraceptives such as birth control pills, IUDs, and the morning after pill.
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To address these issues, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is coordinating with federal, local and private partners to provide increased access to effective contraceptives in Puerto Rico.
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While cost is a huge deterrent for many college students, another obstacle to reproductive freedom may be parents who have staunch religious or cultural beliefs against the use of contraceptives.
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Lidegaard and his team tracked all hormonal contraceptives, which include oral birth control pills, patches, vaginal rings, hormone-releasing IUDs, injections and the so-called morning after emergency birth control.
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The protest against the illegality of contraceptives was a landmark moment in Irish society, a perspective that could not be unseen and a point of view that shifted public discourse.
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On Friday, the departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor issued "interim final rules" to make more entities exempt from providing plans that cover contraceptives without a copayment.
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The Department of Health and Human Services announced last week it would give employers more flexibility to no longer offer contraceptives through their health insurance plans based on religious grounds.
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How can her program empower women economically as clinics in their communities shut down and if they can't easily access basic items and services like contraceptives and maternal health care?
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The requirement that insurers cover contraceptives without a co-pay is vulnerable even if the law stands; because it is a regulation, it could be reversed by a new administration.
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In 2017, Arizona State Senator, Katie Hobbs (D), plans to introduce a bill that would allow more insurance plans to cover abortion and would help rape victim's access emergency contraceptives.
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In October, the Trump administration announced the rollback of the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit, which requires employers to cover the cost of contraceptives in their health insurance plans.
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Mugisha, PATH's Uganda director, said women in rural areas could spend an entire day trekking to a clinic and queuing for contraceptives only to discover they were out of stock.
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The Silicon Valley startup launched in 2015 with the aim of making it less stressful for women to get oral contraceptives (and yes, it is still stressful for many women).
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The appeals panel also stressed the timeliness of emergency contraceptives as "particularly important," given the need to take the medication as soon as possibly after unprotected sex to be effective.
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"It's all well and good to educate girls about availability of contraceptives or healthcare services," said Lisa Denney, a researcher at the London-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI) think-tank.
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Washington, where rat complaints have nearly tripled to roughly 266,000 last year from 2,400 in 2014, is testing a rat-sterilization program tried elsewhere that uses liquid contraceptives as bait.
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Male contraceptives also need to be at least as safe and effective as the options available to women — another daunting challenge to overcome given all the competition already out there.
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If the people declaring they're "pro-life" in legislatures around the country were only concerned about stopping abortion, they'd be handing out vouchers for free contraceptives at every street corner.
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Uranus is the planet of new paradigms, so it's no wonder that the year oral contraceptives were offered to the public was when the planet of invention was in Cancer.
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For example, the continent has the highest fertility rates in the world, but more African governments are pushing contraceptives, saying the best answer for densely populated countries is smaller families.
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"When the policy comes on, fewer women get contraceptives in countries that depend on U.S. funding for family planning," Eran Bendavid, the lead author of the study, said on Monday.
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The proposed loss equates to 28503 million women without access to contraceptives, almost 22019,000 additional people infected with HIV and 31,300 new mothers, newborns or children who would die unnecessarily.
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Black women are more likely than their white counterparts to experience an unintended pregnancy because they are more likely to have difficulty paying for and accessing contraceptives and abortion services.
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There is separate research that suggests some teenagers prefer to get their contraceptives from someone other than their primary care provider, so they can maintain greater privacy over the decision.
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The policy is making it much more difficult for poor women in developing countries to access contraceptives and other forms of reproductive health care, according to international NGOs on the ground.
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But while the development of contraceptives aimed at men, rather than women, is gaining ground, interest in male birth control from large pharmaceutical companies just isn't there, according to one expert.
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House approves bill barring taxpayer money for abortions According to the Dutch government, the new fund would allow women in developing nations to gain access to contraceptives, clear information and abortion.
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In a phone interview, Abma said the level of sexual activity among teenagers fell sharply until about 23 and had since gradually declined, while the use of contraceptives had steadily increased.
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Pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson are favored by the algorithm because they make contraceptives, as are technology firms IBM and Microsoft because of their U.S. paid parental leave policies.
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At the end of our discussion, the minister took us next door where Bangladeshi girls were putting seven contraceptives plus the instructions in a neat pile and then stapling them together!
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The other birth control shot available in Uganda, Depo-Provera (Depo for short), accounts for some 40% of the contraceptives used in Uganda and other countries in East and South Africa.
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More than 20 percent of US women of childbearing age had to pay money out of pocket for oral contraceptives prior to the Obamacare mandate, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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In fact, The Hill reported last year that some Republicans have taken the trend a step further by supporting rules to allow over-the-counter hormonal contraceptives, with no prescription necessary.
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In 2014, Hobby Lobby led a legal battle in which the company argued that for-profit companies should not be required to pay for specific types of contraceptives for their employees.
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More than 20 percent of US woman of childbearing age had to pay money out of pocket for oral contraceptives prior to the Obamacare mandate, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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The report said if the women had reliable contraceptives, there would be a sharp drop in the number of unwanted pregnancies, down from about 89 million a year to 22 million.
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Mr Clement twisted reality rather impressively when he said that the government's aim was to "hijack" the health plans of religious organisations in order to provide their female employees with contraceptives.
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Credit: ALESSANDRO DI MEO/AFP/Getty ImagesSpeaking to reporters earlier today, Pope Francis said it might be okay for women exposed to the Zika virus to use contraceptives to avoid pregnancy.
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The administration estimates that roughly 200 employers with religious or moral objections would get exemptions under the final rule, though many already don't have to provide contraceptives under the previous rules.
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Nearly 63 million women had insurance coverage that includes no-cost contraceptives -- which are used for birth control and other medical conditions -- in 2018, according to the National Women's Law Center.
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Likewise, many conservatives wrongly believe that banning abortion or restricting contraceptives might boost fertility, but the best evidence suggests such restrictions have at best weak impacts, at least in developed countries.
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Burwell, is a challenge by religious nonprofit groups to the government's effort to accommodate their desire to have nothing to do with providing their female employees with insurance coverage for contraceptives.
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Through interviews with dozens of women, she found that ISIS fighters were administering oral contraceptives and Depo-Provera injections as well as testing the women and girls they enslaved for pregnancy.
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Though Lazorwitz's research focuses on how contraceptives interact with other drugs, it was only recently that he started to look at how genes might impact hormonal contraception, he explained to Wired.
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During her time as a birth control activist, Goldman was arrested at least twice for violating the Comstock Law, which included a ban on birth control and any literature about contraceptives.
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The best explanation for this sudden drop is that use of long-acting reversible contraceptives (or LARCs) like IUDs and implants increased 130 percent among US women between 2007 and 143.
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The Trump administration rules reversed a policy of the Obama administration that generally required employers and insurers to provide women with coverage for contraceptives without co-payments, deductibles or other costs.
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Though the older oral contraceptives were known to increase the risk of breast cancer, many doctors and patients had assumed the newer generation of pills on the market today were safer.
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As a supporter of reproductive freedom, van Kempen decided to focus on contraceptives and abortion pills: Her designs include necklaces of birth control pills, IUD pendants, and an emergency contraception bracelet.
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For example, Rwanda's investments to extend community-based health insurance and trained community health care workers has brought information, condoms and contraceptives to Rwandan women in even the most remote communities.
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Despite my access to remarkable doctors, oral contraceptives and even alternative treatments, my disease progressed to the point that I needed surgery, from which it has taken several months to heal.
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The president has directed departments like health and human services to consider whether the government should allow employers who cite religious objections to cut contraceptives out of their health care plans.
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Sex education programs that emphasized abstinence, Dr. Kantor said, have tended to exclude information pertinent to gay and bisexual people and provided misleading information about the efficacy of condoms and contraceptives.
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The reasons for the decrease in abortions are undoubtedly varied; they most likely include increased use of contraceptives, widespread use of sonograms, state laws that protect the unborn and other factors.
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The study found that the risk of ovarian cancer was highest in women who had never used hormonal contraceptives, and lower among women who had used the method at some point.
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WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) - A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal filed by pharmacists in Washington state who objected on religious grounds to providing emergency contraceptives to women.
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The short-term swelling and discomfort may be acceptable to men and regulators, since it resolved quickly, said Michael Skinner, a reproductive biologist who studies male contraceptives at Washington State University.
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It also offers "regulatory relief" to religious groups that object to the Affordable Care Act's provision mandating that employers offer certain health services to their employees, such as access to contraceptives.
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Because nongovernmental groups in those countries refused to accept the conditions of the policy, they were compelled to close clinics and offer fewer contraceptives, said Kelly Castagnaro, a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman.
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It was forced to lay off 60 health workers and give up its mobile health clinics on reproductive health in rural areas, and its capacity to provide contraceptives was substantially impaired.
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The study followed 63 million Danish women for more than a decade, and upends the widely held assumption that modern, low-estrogen contraceptives are safer than those taken by previous generations.
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Mr. Bowman successfully represented Conestoga Wood Specialties, a for-profit Pennsylvania company, and its Mennonite owners, who objected on religious grounds to providing coverage to employees for certain types of contraceptives.
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But generally, many states will cover contraceptives, STD screenings, HPV vaccines, and cancer screenings as well as sterilization and reversal procedures — and will reimburse Planned Parenthood when it is the provider.
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A likely factor for the decline is increased accessibility of contraception under the Affordable Care Act, which required most private health insurance plans to cover contraceptives without out-of-pocket costs.
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Back in the summer of 2012, the Affordable Care Act mandated that insurance plans cover all contraceptives — from birth control pills to IUDs and implants — at no cost to the consumer.
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I came to learn that my experiences tie into a broader pattern of the pharmaceutical industry failing to inform women about and protect them from the side effects of hormonal contraceptives.
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For example: Prescriptions for long-acting, reversible contraceptives including intrauterine devices (IUD) and birth control implants plummeted by 35.5 percent in counties where Planned Parenthood clinics shuttered after the new law.
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Pope Francis, the current leader of the Roman Catholic Church, is known for his relative openness toward conversations long considered taboo in the church, such as LGBTQ issues, contraceptives and abortion.
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In his ruling, Gilliam rejected the states' request for a nationwide injunction, though he noted that his decision meant women in other states were at risk of losing access to free contraceptives.
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Though many people in his state had access to vasectomies or reversible contraceptives through their insurance plans, it appeared lower income women were often "relegated to birth control pills" due to costs.
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CNBC contacted several major drugs companies about their interest in contraceptives aimed at men, but all either had no-one in house able to discuss the topic or else declined to comment.
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The challenge to Obamacare's contraceptive mandate came from religiously affiliated non-profit groups, including the Little Sisters of the Poor, who object to having to provide "abortifacients and contraceptives" to their employees.
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YourChoice Therapeutics — a startup launched by a team of Berkeley researchers, including two experts in sperm physiology and sperm-egg interactions — dreams of producing a unisex, non-hormonal alternative to existing contraceptives.
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"Contraceptives are not a solution," Bishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, the secretary general of the National Council of Bishops of Brazil, and an auxiliary bishop in Brasília, said in an interview last week.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Philippines Department of Health has adequate funds for contraceptives despite the decision to eliminate contraception funds from the country's reproductive health program, a lawmaker said on Tuesday.
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Enough contraceptives were bought in the last quarter of 2015 to last until mid-2016, and the DOH has budget funds left over from 2015 for its reproductive health program, she added.
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A few other companies in the US like HeyDoctor, Lemonaid, and Nurx provide online prescriptions for contraceptives like the pill, the patch, or the ring — without the need to see a doctor.
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When women seem unsure or pressured into sterilizations, Rodriguez tries to steer them toward contraceptives like intra-uterine devices, which are somewhat more available and affordable than birth control pills or condoms.
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By complying, they argued they would be complicit in making contraceptives available in violation of their religious beliefs as their insurers or insurance administrators would then assume responsibility for providing birth control.
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And while there are various reasons one might decide to take oral contraceptives in particular, there is a common and welcome side effect of them that some experience: Acne tends to disappear.
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Though birth control is guaranteed to those in need under the ACA, if the program really is rolled back, those who depend on Obamacare for contraceptives may not have many options left.
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Though the company voluntarily recalled eight brands of oral contraceptives in 2011, the lawsuit alleges more than 100 women from 28 states still became pregnant, unintentionally, after taking the incorrectly packaged pills.
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The clinics that remained didn't often provide all forms of contraceptives such as IUDs, and many organizations that had provided free or low-cost care had to start charging, a study showed.
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The grant announcement also de-emphasizes contraception by not mentioning it even once, and removing guidance that applicants should offer all 19803 types of FDA-approved contraceptives, including the IUD and implant.
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Planned Parenthood of Illinois said online appointments for long-acting contraceptives like IUDs, or intrauterine devices, rose nearly 50 percent in the past two days compared to the same period last week.
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But it's very difficult for people in South America's poorest areas to get access to contraceptives; abortion is also strictly illegal in Brazil and the neighboring nations of Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The use of contraceptives is gaining momentum worldwide and preventing millions of unsafe abortions and maternal deaths each year in the world's poorest countries, experts said on Tuesday.
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While in her geology class, Ms. Montoya checked out Nurx, a web-based app that offers prescriptions for various contraceptives, obtains them from pharmacies, and ships them to California and New York.
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"Women who use oral contraceptives longer than five years when they were young," he said, "have a substantially reduced risk of ovarian cancer even when they are in middle age and older."
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The most controversial aspect of the project, which is blasted by reproductive rights organizations, is the fact that 13 of those sites don't offer contraceptives like birth control pills, condoms and IUDs.
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If President Trump is able to replace Justice Kennedy with a Trumpian Republican, women's rights, gay rights, voting rights, the right to use contraceptives -- so much of modern life -- could be upended.
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What the law says: Arizona is one of six states with a law allowing pharmacists to decline to sell emergency contraceptives on "moral grounds," according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Or the young women who come across the border fleeing sexual violence and are then denied emergency contraceptives and other family planning by Catholic charities that receive federal funds to assist them.
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When they do that, they are relieved of any further involvement: the government steps in and coordinates with the insurer to provide contraceptives to the women, at no cost, through the plan.
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But it was still not enough for many religious-affiliated employers, who said that the very act of notification makes them complicit in the provision of contraceptives and violates their religious freedom.
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The order would let private companies choose not to cover contraceptives for their employees and to speak out "on moral or political issues from a religious perspective," without losing their tax-exemption.
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The results suggested a "rapid disappearance of excess risk of breast cancer after discontinuation of use among women who have used hormonal contraceptives for short periods," the authors write in the paper.
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Hobby Lobby had previously drawn ire in 2014 for its Supreme Court case that challenged a mandate issued by the Obama administration that required companies to provide health care options for contraceptives.
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The CDC did not provide any reason for the decline, but abortion rights advocates attributed it to increased use of contraceptives as well as decreased access to abortion services in some states.
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In the past, the explanation for this was straightforward: As women gained greater access to educational and workplace opportunities, along with more accessible and effective contraceptives, some of them delayed having children.
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"As vigilance and concern grows around transmission of the coronavirus, we are seeing heightened vigilance by oversight bodies, including around import, freight, and clearance of all shipments, including of contraceptives," Purdy said.
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" On gender, Melinda Gates emphasizes expanding access to family planning: "There are over 200 million women in developing countries who do not want to get pregnant but are not using modern contraceptives.
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Comprehensive rodent control will need to focus on long-term and sustainable goals, reducing populations to tolerable numbers using varied tools like rodenticide, dry ice and even applying contraceptives to reduce fertility.
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They suggest that such policies should prioritize early childhood programs, high school graduation, universal health coverage, access to contraceptives, housing, jobs and government-issued savings bonds and monthly allowances for all children.
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The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission declared in 2000 that any health plan that covered drugs, devices and preventive care but that did not cover contraceptives violated the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.
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"By regulation, that insurance must cover all FDA-approved contraceptives, including certain methods of birth control that, some believe, operate as abortifacients and result in the destruction of embryos," he wrote then.
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It also removes the emphasis that applicants offer all 18 types of FDA-approved birth control, including long-acting reversible contraceptives like the IUD and implant, which are the most effective methods.
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The site is part of a new and potentially massive experiment in American health care that aims to give all women access to the most effective contraceptives — and see what happens next.
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The results of the study were published this week in Basic and Clinical Andrology, while the drug itself is developed by Revolution Contraceptives LLC, a social venture subsidiary under the Parsemus Foundation.
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