Contraception

"I don't trust my body, and I don't feel safe after my body seemingly failed me, and I don't trust doctors or hospitals," Jenna Muscat told Newsweek.

"This combination can be potentially put into routine clinical use to improve the effectiveness of emergency contraception," Raymond Li, told Newsweek.

30-year-old Makenzie Hammond has been diagnosed with two hepatic adenomas in her liver, which are tumors that can develop as a result of taking the pill.

"When pregnancy naturally occurs, that's nature doing what nature does," Wisconsin state Representative Chuck Wichgers said Wednesday.

The Colorado representative's comments were "not factual and misleading," a women's policy expert said.

The medical community is divided over the possible approval of an over-the-counter birth control pill, which also faces added political pressure.

A couple's argument over birth control has enraged social media users. "I'd happily just not have sex with him," wrote one commenter.

Matthew Kacsmaryk of Texas has become the first federal justice to approve a challenge to the right to contraception following overturning of abortion ruling.

The Texas judge recently gave an opinion in a case in which a Christian father is arguing Title X shouldn't be allowed to provide contraception to adolescents.

The Kenyan government will only be able to provide 150 million condoms, short of the expected demand of 262 million, says AIDS Healthcare Foundation Kenya.

Within three months, I really started to experience the world differently.

The latest recall by the discount chain include numerous sexual health, contraceptive, and dental care products.

South Carolina state Senator Richard Cash equated the moral outrage around abortion to that exhibited in the lead-up to the abolition of slavery.

Women often have to fight for their right to contraception, but in my experience, my hand was held the entire way.

The kits contain two Plan B pills, condoms and a pregnancy test.

"They told me it was unfair. That I was wrong. They deserve more grandkids," she wrote.

Anti-abortion activists have questioned the legality of the coffee shop's initiative.

I was dumbfounded. Aside from high blood pressure, I had no symptoms at all—nothing.

"When you're banning abortion, you can't ban abortion and then not protect women's access to contraceptives," Representative Nancy Mace told Newsweek.

The overturning of Roe v. Wade raised concerns about the ripple effect it could have on protections for same-sex marriages.

"Not acceptable," actress Michaela Watkins tweeted about Walgreens employees allegedly refusing to sell birth control. "Women are not cattle. You don't own us."

The inquiries come as abortion and contraception have been thrust into the spotlight in the United States following the Supreme Court overturning Roe.

North American gray squirrels are considered an invasive species in the U.K., where the native red squirrel is now totally outnumbered.

The cashier "proceeded to embarrass me in front of other customers for my reproductive choices," Nate Pentz wrote in a complaint.

Jacky Eubanks, a candidate for Michigan's state house, said contraception gives people "the false sense of security that they can have consequence-free sex."

The International Planned Parenthood Federation told Newsweek that there is "a significant demand" for emergency contraception and abortion pills in Ukraine.

With condoms and vasectomies the only male contraceptive options available, here's what you need to know about birth control pills for men that scientists are working on.

"It should salute you and say; 'at your cervix!'" wrote one commenter on Reddit but others were not amused, with one less than impressed at the prospect of visiting a house and seeing a framed IUD.

Pharmaceutical companies are seeking approval from the FDA to make the pills more easily available.

"Protecting Americans' access to contraception is more important than ever," Senator Cory Booker said in a statement.