I shivered on the table as she, this total stranger who was about to examine my vagina, condemned and disparaged my most private battle. I was already laid bare, literally, making me feel enormously vulnerable and awkward.
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birth control
Or, the mystery of the suddenly gigantic boobs.
birth control
IUDs are the most popular form of contraception worldwide and the least popular in the United States. I'm sensing some disconnect here.
birth control
My first thought on buying car trunk birth control? Ewww. But six months later it's more like, "Yay!!"
birth control
YOU GUYS FINDING FREE CONDOMS IS TOTALLY NOT THAT DIFFICULT, and other nuggets of reproductive wisdom from noted women's advocate, Rush Limbaugh.
Lesley in
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I am not as smart as Rush Limbaugh,
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Mar 2, 2012 at 1:00pm | 166 comments
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Within a few days I started really feeling like crap. Like sick in bed and exhausted by breathing kind of crap. I called the advice nurse several times. On each of these calls I made a point of telling the nurse that I had just gotten an IUD and asked if it could be related.
birth control
The comparison I made light-heartedly to friends was that the Ring was like a horcrux in Harry Potter. It took control of me, made me different, made me darker -- and the last thing I wanted to do was remove it.
birth control
Getting a glimpse under the hood of anti-choice attitudes about birth control explains why they’re so determined to ban it, and why it’s so important to protect access.
birth control
How does the Pill work? Once upon time, I figured that the hormones I was taking somehow sort of targeted and exploded my eggs, kind of like in Angry Birds. Not so!
birth control
“F*ck ovaries,” I was prepared to say, “and their stupid little eggs too. Let’s do this thing! Sterilisation now, ovulation never!”
birth control
You definitely don’t need women testifying at a panel on whether birth control should be included in women’s health plans. After all, government is for men!
birth control
I had my tubes tied because I never want to have kids, and because I don't want to worry that the political tides will shift against my child-free favor.
Brittany in
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emergency contraception,
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Mar 12, 2012 at 9:00am | 87 comments
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Are you cool with telling your boss all about your PCOS? Because that's what Arizona's House Bill 2625 would like you to do. Otherwise you might get fired. Or you might get fired anyway. And it would all be totally legal!
birth control
Here's a list of things that I said during a week of apocalyptic women's health news that made me feel like I had entered a real-life version of the Handmaid's Tale.
birth control
When it comes to the case my birth control lives in, I like to keep it classy. So I went all DIY on it.
birth control
Yeah, I don't want to go on the Pill or wear condoms either, but it's like ... come ON.
birth control
The key is to this is thoughtful branding. And Ryan Gosling's face.
Jess in
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i am a marketing genius,
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this will totally work,
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Oct 13, 2011 at 1:00pm | 0 comments
birth control
Guy I'm seeing wants me to get on the pill. We haven't established that we are "official," but is this the modern way of saying, "You're my girlfriend!"?
birth control
And I had to find out for myself.
birth control
"What exactly is the protocol for birth control with a married (or soon to be married couple)? Am I crazy to think that we should be splitting this cost?"
birth control
A sneak peek into our editorial process!
birth control
When I hear people talking about how bad condoms feel or how ineffective they are, it bums me out, because condoms do not deserve the scorn that they receive.
