Birth control
Summary
Birth control is an umbrella term for several techniques and methods used to prevent fertilization or to interrupt pregnancy at various stages. Birth control techniques and methods include contraception (the prevention of fertilization), contragestion (preventing the implantation of the blastocyst) and abortion (the removal or expulsion of a fetus or embryo from the uterus). Contraception includes barrier methods, such as condoms or diaphragm, hormonal contraception, also known as oral contraception, and injectable contraceptives. Contragestives, also known as post-coital birth control, include intrauterine devices and what is known as the morning after pill.The phrase "birth control" entered the English language in 1914 and was popularised by Margaret Sanger and Otto Bobsein Margaret Sanger was mainly active in the United States, but had gained an international reputation by the 1930s.
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Y! Big Story: Contraception controversies
The report that teen pregnancy is an all-time low in America comes out at a time when birth control has re-emerged as a political issue. Since January alone, the Susan G. Komen flap, Rush Limbaugh's "slut" controversy, a birth control pill recall, and health care reform have all kept contraception in the headlines.
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'I will never give up': Birth-control pioneer says fight has personal cost
Taunts of "baby killer" and "butcher" still echo in Bill Baird's ears, nearly five decades after he began fighting for birth control and abortion rights.
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Obama tailors election-year message to working women
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, leading in the polls among women voters, said on Friday he wants to help working women fight discrimination and juggle the demands of motherhood but stopped short of making promises on gender equality if he wins re-election. At a White House event on women and the economy, Obama noted "there has been a lot of talk about women and women's issues lately," a nod to the emergence of contraceptive rights, working women and all-male establishments as heated issues in his race for re-election in November.
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Adding up the costs of being a woman
Inspired by the ongoing debates and misunderstandings about birth control and women's health care, Jezebel's Tracie Egan Morrissey has run down the general cost of being a woman, or as she puts it, "how much it costs it to own a vagina. " This is not a small amount of money, as she points out: "Were you aware of the fact that in your 20s alone, you will spend over $26,000 on vaginal maintenance?".
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Rochester Professor: Fluke Is 'Extortionist With An Overweening Sense Of Entitlement'
Students at the University of Rochester are upset with a professor who defended radio host Rush Limbaugh for calling Georgetown University Law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and for suggesting Fluke should be required to post a sex tape online if someone else paid for her birth control.
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WATCH: Colbert Mocks Rush Limbaugh's Fleeing Advertisers
As the controversy over Rush Limbaugh's offensive comments about birth control continues, Stephen Colbert scrutinized the backlash from advertisers as well as Limbaugh's defense on Thursday night's "Colbert Report. ".
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Catholics, contraceptives and John Locke
It is extraordinary how far some will go to knit the random scraps and patches of events into the quilt of a narrative. So the Susan B. Komen controversy, resistance to the administration’s contraceptive mandate, a stag-party joke by Foster Friess and a cruel epithet from Rush Limbaugh somehow add up to a Republican war on women, sure to provoke the political backlash of an entire gender.
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Stephanie Schriock: Fighting the GOP War on Women From the States
Unprecedented. That's what they're calling the GOP's most recent attack on women in Arizona. I'm calling it unthinkable.
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Gary McCoy: Woman in cartoon is ‘a generic woman,’ not Sandra Fluke
The Cagle Post Critics of Gary McCoy’s cartoon showing a dark-haired woman in a Georgetown sweatshirt demanding free birth control from the government and soliciting sex on a bathroom door are mistaken if they think McCoy is referring to… Read more.
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WATCH: Limbaugh's New Sponsors
It's been a rocky couple of weeks for Rush Limbaugh. Between calling a law student a "slut" and a "prostitute" for speaking in defense of contraceptive insurance coverage, and then making a decidedly unenthusiastic apology, the radio host has been dropped by most of his major advertisers.
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