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Contraception
Contraception news and analysis from The Nation
December 3, 2019
Anti-Abortion Extremism Goes Full Psycho
An Ohio House bill would require doctors to perform a procedure that is medically impossible—or face murder charges. Other bills just as nutty are being enacted across the country.
Sasha Abramsky
April 19, 2018
Trump Is Putting Anti-Choice Extremists Back in Power
He’s filling his administration, agencies, and the courts with activists who peddle junk science and lies about both contraception and abortion.
Dawn Huckelbridge
May 31, 2017
The Trump Administration Is Coming for Your Birth Control
They’ve stocked government agencies with anti-choice fanatics who see contraception as the enemy and funding it as a con.
Katha Pollitt
March 29, 2017
Demand for IUDs Has Skyrocketed Under Trump
Meet the women protecting themselves one (or two) presidential terms at a time.
Julia Mead
December 14, 2016
This Is What Could Happen to Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration
It’s going to be ugly.
Rebecca Grant
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December 14, 2016
What Happens When Zika Hits the Country With the World’s Strictest Abortion Laws?
Abortion is illegal in El Salvador—even in the midst of a public health crisis. But some feminists and doctors are fighting back.
Madeleine Schwartz
May 20, 2016
When Religious Exemptions Are a Menace to Public Health
The Zika virus shows just how dangerous it is to let religious authority determine public policy.
Patricia J. Williams
March 24, 2016
Can Religious Groups Ignore All Laws They Don’t Like?
Or just those related to women’s health?
Zoë Carpenter
January 27, 2016
A Group of Mexican Immigrant Women Were Sterilized Without Their Consent. Can a New Film Bring Justice?
No Más Bebés
brings dignity and a sense of power to the mothers the law ignored.
Claudia Dreifus
December 15, 2015
Birth-Control Experts Are Wary of Coercive Tactics in the Push for IUD Use
A new study suggests that experts on long-acting contraception hear reproductive-justice advocates loud and clear.
Dani McClain
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