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New Contraceptives for Cascadia

Photo Credit: Chris JL via Compfight cc Last fall, researchers in Missouri caught the attention of public health experts and advocates across North America. Some 9,000 St. Louis women had been offered...

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The Pill Is 1965 Technology

The Pill, photo by Beatrice Murch, ccFuturist Sara Robinson has called modern contraception the most disruptive technology of the last hundred years. From the time our ancestors first walked out of the...

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Exorcising the Dalkon Shield

Photo credit alecskaIn 2002, 26 percent of Norwegian contraceptive users relied on a long acting method that they could simply fit and forget, the IUD. In the United States, that rate was 2 percent....

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A Contraceptive Revolution

Image credit LoveMyLARC campaign, used with permission. Imagine a future in which a woman becomes fertile only when she wants to have a child—a future in which high school and college students can...

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The Trust Game

Photo credit MestreechCity, cc. I want to be able to take matters into my own hands and make sure I cannot father a kid until I choose. –Brian, California As a young sexually active male in a committed...

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Intrauterine Bling

Intrauterine contraceptives collection. Photo by Contrel.Picture a series of copper beads on a fine titanium alloy wire curved in a graceful sphere. It looks like an earring, but you won’t find it in a...

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Party Time! Excellent!

Oh what fun by all.consuming used under CC BY-ND 2.0 Public health officials, educators, and parents of teens have reason to party! According to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, American...

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Dazed and Confused

Can a girl get pregnant if she has sex standing up? Will my boyfriend be able to feel my IUD? What are dental dams, and why do people use them for sex? Does everybody shave or trim down there? If a guy...

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Bring It On

OTC Plan B by Cory Doctorow used under CC BY-SA 2.0When Plan B emergency contraceptives became available without a prescription, I sent my teenage daughter, Marley, and her friend Amanda out to do a...

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Say Anything

Equipment by Tyler used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0A young woman sits in an examining room, waiting for her medical provider. The provider arrives and picks up the chart. “I see you’re here to talk about...

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Stand by Me

Teens by Lena Vasiljeva used under CC BY 2.0No one birth control method fits everyone, but today young women have better options than ever before. Across the United States, from New York to South...

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Back to the Future

Pregnant silhouette by Stefan Pasch used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0More than 80 percent of teen pregnancies are accidents. A girl with other hopes and dreams—or maybe a girl who is floundering, who hasn’t...

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Birth Control? There’s an App for That

By the Lake by Jill G used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Given that 82 percent of teen pregnancies are unintended, it should come as no surprise that sexual health advocates are eager to make information and...

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Sustainability Between the Sheets

Sustain Condoms 3-pack varieties. by Ken Burris (Used with permission.)When Meika Hollender’s dad, superstar green entrepreneur Jeffrey Hollender, first brought up the idea of founding a condom company...

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The Trust Game

Why both partners should have control over their fertility. | I want to be able to take matters into my own hands and make sure I cannot father a kid until I choose. –Brian, California For a long time,...

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Intrauterine Bling

2,000 years of IUDs, from camels to body mod. | Picture a series of copper beads on a fine titanium alloy wire curved in a graceful sphere. It looks like an earring, but you won’t find it in a jewelry...

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Party Time! Excellent!

Educators and health professionals celebrate a drop in teen pregnancy. | Public health officials, educators, and parents of teens have reason to party! According to a new report from the Guttmacher...

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Dazed and Confused

The case for comprehensive sex ed for children and teens. | Can a girl get pregnant if she has sex standing up? Will my boyfriend be able to feel my IUD? What are dental dams, and why do people use...

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Bring It On

Universally available OTC oral contraceptives would be a game-changer. | When Plan B emergency contraceptives became available without a prescription, I sent my teenage daughter, Marley, and her friend...

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Say Anything

Medical providers' role in constructing clear options for young women. | A young woman sits in an examining room, waiting for her medical provider. The provider arrives and picks up the chart. “I see...

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