#birth-control

#birth-control

There was a time when U.S. parents who abandoned their children were a rarity and fit a narrow profile.Due to overwhelming cultural or social pressures, their unplanned pregnancy put them at significant risk, so they felt they had no choice but to hide the pregnancy, give birth alone and abandon the infant.

Despite all the headlines about the procedure, many Americans do not know basic facts about abortions or who gets them, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll.Take the quiz below it has the same questions as the poll and test your own knowledge.Then, read on to understand more about how the facts connect to the abortion debate.

Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column.Dear Care and Feeding, Have a question for Care and Feeding?Submit it here.Dear Back and Forth, My husband and I are still in our twenties and had planned to have at least three or four children.A few weeks after birth, our beautiful firstborn son was diagnosed with a condition that will cause him to grow up with, among other challenges, a moderate to severe intellectual disability.

All hormone contraceptives, including progestagen-only minipills, carry a small excess risk of breast cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Oxford, but the overall risk remains low.The study, published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Medicine, bridges a research gap by investigating the link between breast cancer and progestagen-only contraceptives.

For people who want to prevent pregnancy, birth-control drugs come with an obvious reward.They also come with some small risksincluding, for some forms, a slightly increased risk of breast cancer.This has long been known about the most popular type: combined hormonal birth control, which is available in pill, patch, and ring form.

A group of registered doulas in Ontario believe they are the victims of a Brantford woman who is now facing dozens of charges for fraudulently seeking their services.Kaitlyn Braun, 24, was arrested by Brantford police on Monday and is facing more than 30 charges ranging from criminal harassment and fraud to sexual assault.

A medical researcher handles a white mouse in a lab.(Getty Images)In 2018, Melanie Balbach, a postdoctoral scientist at Weill Cornell Medicine, surprised her bosses with a remarkable video of mouse sperm - just sitting there.A colleague in the lab had asked for help injecting mice with an experimental drug developed for eye disease, and Balbach agreed, with one condition.

Lance Kerwin, a former child actor who played the title role in the 1970s coming-of-age drama James at 15 and a vampire hunter in a mini-series based on the Stephen King novel Salem's Lot, died on Tuesday at his home in San Clemente, Calif.He was 62. His death was confirmed by his daughter Savanah Kerwin, who said that a cause had not been determined and that the family was awaiting the results of an autopsy.

Abortion rights advocates gather in front of the J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Courthouse in Amarillo, Texas, on Wednesday.U.S. abortion opponents are hoping to get a national ban on a widely used abortion pill through their lawsuit against the FDA.Moises Avila/AFP via Getty Images Was the FDA wrong to approve a drug that's used in nearly all medication abortions in the U.S. and should the drug, mifepristone, be taken off the market?

The highly unusual move is the latest in far right judges' current streak of judicial activism.The abortion drug Mifepristone, also known as RU486, is pictured in an abortion clinic February 17, 2006, in Auckland, New Zealand.Phil Walter / Getty Images A Donald Trump-appointed judge who could effectively enact a federal ban on the abortion medication mifepristone privately sought to prevent the public from knowing that a hearing for the case was scheduled in order to prevent protests ahead of the hearing.

California "can't do it alone," California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in announcing the coalition of states.Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at the reunification center in Half Moon Bay, California, on January 24, 2023.Shae Hammond / MediaNews Group / East Bay Times via Getty Images Twenty Democratic governors launched a coalition this week with the stated goal of expanding and protecting reproductive rights, with particular emphasis on strengthening abortion access, both for in-state and out-of-state residents who may travel to them to obtain the medical procedure.

As inclusive as I try to be, I'm as limited as anyone by unconscious bias.Take, for example, my latest response to a young-looking man wanting to look more mature."I found your advice wanting for people like me," said David Barrett, a retiree in Ellicott City, Md., and self-described "brown-skinned, African American male."

What do you want to accomplish this year?Scroll through Life Kit's expert guides for practical and inspiring ways to grow in 2023.Ah, the new year.It's a time to sketch out your goals and think about the roadmap to get there.Life Kit has curated a list of some of our best episodes to help set you up for success in 2023.

Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column.Have a question for Care and Feeding?Dear Care and Feeding, Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group.I found out my parents had an open marriage 10 years ago during my sophomore year of high school when my parents sat me down and told me that my dad's girlfriend was pregnant.

When I moved to France six years ago, I was a fish out of water.My little-used high school French had been displaced by German and Chinese, and I had only ever been to France for two short trips.I was startled by the abruptness of the Parisians, by their staring and impatience and their overtly quizzical looks.

After Vice managed to buy the location data of people who visited 600 Planned Parenthood clinics (for a mere $160!), California AG Rob Bonta is urging Apple to better protect users' private information in App Store third-party apps.Once word leaked in May that the U.S. Supreme Court was going to overturn , several states were instituting cash bounty laws which offered money for turning someone in if they received or in any way abetted an abortion.

The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it will overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive pill, Plan B, that women can take after having sex to prevent a pregnancy.Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP WASHINGTON  The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it will overhaul packaging labels for the emergency contraceptive pill, Plan B, that women can take after having sex to prevent a pregnancy.

The emergency contraceptive pill sold as Plan B One-Step does not prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb and does not cause an abortion, the US Food and Drug Administration said Friday.The agency said it is updating the information included on the leaflet provided with the drug.Previously, the product label had said the pill might prevent a fertilized egg from implanting.