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Contraceptives can help - but some women need a hysterectomy, womb removal, to completely relieve pain.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2023

Contraceptives like birth control pills are FSA-eligible with a prescription.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2022

Contraceptives are used by 88% of U.S. women of childbearing age who are not trying to get pregnant, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights advocacy group.

From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2022

Contraceptives are also not very profitable medicines, so there is little incentive to push for making them available over the counter.

From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2022

These conditions—not the woman—outface society with this question: "Contraceptives or Abortion—which shall it be?"

From Woman and the New Race by Sanger, Margaret