Access to safe and effective birth control is essential to public health. In the United States, Title X allows health clinics to provide access to free birth control to teens without parental consent....

On March 4, the first non-prescription birth control pill was approved in the United States. The newly FDA-approved contraceptive is called Opill. Opill.com states, “After nearly a decade of research...

The FDA recently approved Opill, an oral contraceptive for over-the-counter use. Opill is the first contraceptive approved within the United States that does not require a prescription. It has been...

In 1960, the FDA approved the birth control pill for contraceptive use. This, so the story goes, lowered the stakes for casual sex and provided women in the U.S. a degree of sexual freedom that played...