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Coming off Birth Control Is Not a Death Sentence
AS the fight rages on to make the birth control pill more accessible to women in the US, an increasing number are actually turning away from this method of contraception. That said, the Pill has...
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OD’ed: Is Birth Control Poisoning Our Environment?
DID YOU KNOW that there are some side effects to your birth control pill that fail to make it onto the insert? The drug companies warn you about the nausea, spotting, and the depression, but they...
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Big Pharma Doesn’t Care if Birth Control Users Die
WHAT DOES IT MEAN when tens of thousands of lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies such as Merck and Bayer, brought against them over contraceptives such as Yasmin and NuvaRing, are settled out of...
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Sayana Press: Exporting Birth Control We Won’t Use
SAYANA PRESS. It sounds like a new coffee maker, doesn’t it? Or the latest Victoria’s Secret angel. If the giddy endorsement of Cosmopolitan’s Jill Filipovic last month is to be believed, it’s...
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New Male Birth Control Pill Too Good to Be True?
where’s a spoonful of sugar when you need it? THE INTERNET apparently has a very short memory. Case in point: approximately every six months, we get a slew of articles proclaiming that “The Male Pill...
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Period Repair Manual: New Solutions for Old Problems
LARA BRIDEN is a Naturopathic Doctor (ND) practicing in Sydney. If you’ve never heard of naturopathic medicine, it’s an approach to healthcare that “uses holistic and nontoxic approaches to therapy...
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Bayer’s Unbranded Birth Control Campaign is Obvious
free yoga or no, we see right through you, Bayer. IN A RECENT EPISODE of Real Time with Bill Maher — one that I could actually sit through without yelling and muttering to myself — the host discussed...
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Doped: Are Women Masking True Emotions With Drugs?
MOODY BITCHES, a groundbreaking book by psychiatrist Dr. Julie Holland that calls for society to reconsider how it views female “moodiness,” has whipped up controversy in its first weeks of release....
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On Contraception and Involving Our Male Partners
time for everyone to get clued in. IF HEADLINES ARE ANYTHING TO GO BY, an increasing number of women are rejecting hormonal contraceptives for the sympto-thermal method of fertility awareness....
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Cycle Technologies: Educating Women On Their Cycles
CYCLE TECHNOLOGIES describes their fertility awareness tools as “brilliantly simple.” Leslie Heyer founded the company in 2002, and since then she has developed the physical and digital means by which...
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On Neoliberal Feminism, Big Pharma, and the OTC Pill
forever and ever, amen. LATER THIS YEAR, my home state of California will become the first to provide oral contraceptives over the counter, after months of wondering whether birth control would ever...
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