Mary Ziegler is a law professor at UC Davis and the author, most recently, of Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction (2025). We are entering a startling new era in the politics of birth ...

Posts urging women to stop using traditional oral contraceptives are exploding online, in part due to influencers promoting them with hashtags like #stopthepill, #hormonefree and #naturalbirthcontrol.

On its face, The Icon and the Idealist is not a book about abortion. Thanks to advances in technology and medical knowledge, Americans have become accustomed to an ideological separation between ...

Judging by how commonly birth control is practiced in the United States, it ought to rank among the least controversial of subjects. In surveys, ninety-nine per cent of women of reproductive age ...

In “The Icon and the Idealist,” Stephanie Gorton tells the story of two women who fought a patriarchal system — and each other. By Clara Bingham Clara Bingham’s most recent book is “The Movement: How ...

In the arc of history, women haven’t had it so good. Just biologically, there are the crises of pregnancy, the miscarriages and the risks of maternal, fetal and infant mortality. Reproductive-health ...

Hey, writer-director-producer Ryan Murphy, if you’re looking for subjects for future installments of TV’s “Feud” franchise, look no further: The clash between turn-of-the-last-century birth control ...

We are entering a startling new era in the politics of birth control, with President Donald Trump launching the most serious effort in decades to curb contraception. The Department of Health and Human ...