Editor’s note: This story was updated July 13, 2023, to reflect the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a nonprescription birth control pill. For the first time, people in the United ...

Last year, Gov. Kathy Hochul, lawmakers and reproductive health advocates celebrated the approval of a new law that made birth control available without a prescription. The state officially authorized ...

This month, the FDA approved a birth control pill called Opill for over-the-counter pharmacy distribution. This is amazing news for reproductive autonomy. While many folks are lucky enough to have ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved Thursday the first over-the-counter birth control pill as concerns about cost, health hazards and correct usage take a back seat to reproductive rights after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2024, Premier Susan Holt promised to make contraception free by signing onto national pharmacare, but more than a year later ...

Cheap, easy birth control is arriving in the United States. The country's first over-the-counter birth control pill "will soon become the most effective birth-control method available without a doctor ...

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York lawmakers are taking steps to protect reproductive rights for women in the state. Two big announcements were made Tuesday. With a stroke of a pen Tuesday morning, Gov. Kathy ...

Just days before the end of the 2024 legislative session, nearly every Senate Democrat voted against a birth control bill championed by a member of their own party across the hall at the Statehouse.

On the heels of Mother’s Day and only weeks after Black Maternal Health Week, Time magazine released a new investigative piece highlighting the grim reality of women’s reproductive health. The Supreme ...