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South Korean women will be able to get abortions legally for the first time since 1953

A one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills is displayed Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, in Sacramento, Calif. The California Senate approved SB999 by Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, that would allow California women to receive a year supply of hormonal birth control in one trip to the pharmacy, on Friday. It now goes the governor. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

THE (OTHER) PILL

A male birth control pill would bring gender equality to safe sex

Period pain can be treated with continuous birth control.

BUREAUCRATIC NIGHTMARE

Period pain can be treated. But US regulators won’t follow doctors’ orders

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The future of birth control in India could be the needle

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NO GLOVE, NO LOVE

A shocking proportion of Indians have got morning-after pills all wrong

A pill held between two fingers.

Millions are taking drugs, including birth control, that increase the risk of suicide

“My mom wanted $350. Putting me up for adoption was cheaper than getting an abortion.”

An image of three women's birth control pills in their packaging.

A small trial for a male birth control pill was successful—if you’re okay with serious sexual side effects

Children wave Chinese and Olympic flags during a ceremony marking the start of the tour of the Olympic flag leading up to the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games at the Badaling section of the Great Wall in Yanqing district in Beijing, China, February 27, 2018.

China just got one step closer to ending its family-planning policies

A birth control wheel held up to a face with mascara on the eye lid.

New research questions the relationship between birth control and depression