Stark criticized the Biden administration for limiting women’s choices not only for family planning but also for identifying reproductive health issues. The case centers on the Affordable Care Act, ...

Search "fertility awareness" or "natural birth control" on TikTok and you'll find an endless scroll of videos — oftentimes with sparkle and flower emoji for emphasis. While not sound medical advice, ...

After taking the pill for a decade, Elodie Monnier Legrand decided to try "natural" birth control, an increasingly popular ...

Natural, or fertility awareness based methods (FABMs), properly learned from a trained professional, can be a practical and effective way approach to either achieving or preventing pregnancy. With ...

Watching my cycle like a hawk to prevent pregnancy has been effective for me — and, no, it’s not the rhythm method. By Rachel Mans McKenny This story was originally published on Sept. 13, 2019 in NYT ...

This article has been updated since originally published. In the first paragraph, “approved by the Food and Drug Administration” has been corrected to “cleared by the Food and Drug Administration.” ...

Women's health care is in the news quite a lot these days, but one story that hasn't been in the news nearly enough is how a new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule cuts women off from ...

A federal court has blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to exclude fertility-awareness methods from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate in a win for advocates of natural family ...

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Perhaps you’re old enough to remember the “calendar rhythm method" of birth control. Before the Pill became available in the late 1960s, the “rhythm method” was quite popular, especially among those ...

When she was 23, Blume — now 28 and living in Wilmington, North Carolina — started embracing a more “natural” lifestyle, which for her meant paying attention to what she ate, and avoiding cleaning ...