A doula and a clinician may both be present during labor, but they do different jobs. A doula offers continuous, non-clinical support: helping a person cope with labor, understand what is happening…
The price shown for an online birth control subscription is often not the price you will actually pay. A platform may…
Two oral contraceptive categories sit on most formularies: combined oral contraceptives (COCs), which pair a synthetic…
Employer health insurance can appear to cover birth control while still leaving patients to pay at the pharmacy, wait…
Maternal health equity is not achieved simply by placing more prenatal appointments on the calendar. In the United…
Short-term limited-duration insurance (STLDI) plans are marketed as a practical bridge for people between jobs, between…
Maternal healthcare in the United States is not failing everyone in the same way. The sharpest divide is visible in the…
A first contraceptive consultation is often short — perhaps fifteen to thirty minutes in primary care or an OB-GYN…
Medicaid is the largest payer of births in the United States, covering approximately 40% of them. Yet access to a doula…
The question is not simply whether community clinics or hospitals deliver better maternal health outcomes. For many…
The price of emergency contraception can change sharply depending on which pill you choose, where you buy it, and…
In July 2023, the FDA approved something reproductive health advocates had been pushing toward for decades: a daily…
Every year, millions of people switch contraceptives — moving from pills to an IUD, off a patch onto an implant, off…
A short-term health plan can look like a practical bridge between jobs, enrollment periods, or major life changes. The…
Maternal health data can show where care is failing, but only if advocates can interpret the numbers, identify what…
Vasectomy insurance coverage in the United States depends less on the procedure itself than on the type of health plan…
When the U.S. Supreme Court decided Estelle v. Gamble in 1976, it drew a clear legal line: correctional authorities owe…
The birth control implant and the hormonal IUD belong to the same broad category: long-acting reversible contraception…
There is no single route to LGBTQ family building, and the differences are not merely medical. Donor insemination, in…
IUD insertion pain is not a minor detail to work around. For some patients, placement causes brief, manageable…
When Opill reached retail shelves and pharmacy websites in March 2024, it became the first daily oral contraceptive…
Transgender fertility preservation is often treated as a personal medical choice. Insurance systems frequently treat it…
If your clinician has just handed you a box of prefilled syringes and said "see you in three months," the next thirteen…
The difference between a family planning Medicaid waiver and full Medicaid expansion is not a technical footnote. It…
A Black maternal health care plan cannot stop at prenatal appointment schedules and a hospital bag checklist. It has to…
The label on a box of Plan B One-Step lists no weight limit, no BMI cutoff, and no body-size contraindication. In the…
For many people, the hardest part of getting birth control is not choosing a pill, patch, ring, or injection. It is…
The numbers tell a story that does not need translation. According to the 2018 Listening to Mothers in California…
Estrogen-free birth control options are no longer limited to a narrow group of prescription pills. Today, people who…
A 12-month birth control supply can remove one of the most persistent access barriers in contraception: the need to…
More than a million Latinas living in U.S. states where abortion is restricted or banned report speaking little to no…
When emergency contraception is needed, the decision is often framed as a simple choice between a pill and an IUD. In…
A health plan can advertise birth control coverage and still make access difficult at the point where a patient needs a…
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) birthing people face roughly twice the risk of maternal morbidity and…
Emergency contraception is time-sensitive, but access rarely works like a simple countdown. The medication may be…
A birth control method can be covered by insurance and still produce an unexpected bill. The problem is often not that…
For more than two million women of reproductive age in the United States, getting maternity care can mean traveling…
Switching from hormonal to non-hormonal birth control is not simply a matter of stopping one method and starting…
For anyone standing at a pharmacy counter with a box of levonorgestrel in hand, the question is immediate and…
After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, abortion litigation in the United States did not move into a single…
A reproductive healthcare bill can become unaffordable for reasons that have little to do with the care itself. The…
Fertility awareness methods (FAM) come with a striking statistic: 91% to 99% effectiveness at preventing pregnancy with…
An abortion ballot initiative can look deceptively simple from the outside: write a constitutional amendment, collect…
If you are pregnant and do not have legal status in the United States, the federal government has made one thing clear…
For the first time in the United States, someone can walk into a pharmacy or shop online and buy a daily birth control…
Medicaid doula coverage has expanded rapidly, but enrollment in a benefit does not automatically translate into an…
For many LGBTQ+ people, the first barrier to fertility care is not a medical diagnosis. It is the wording of an…
The first birth control appointment can feel like a pop quiz you did not study for. A clinician may need to make…
For people without health insurance, the price of birth control can change dramatically depending on where they seek…
A reproductive health bill can change public policy long before it becomes law—and disappear long before the public…