contraceptive
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Clay Felker, the editor of Esquire, asked her to write about the social effects of the contraceptive pill, which was new at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Established in 1970 under the Public Health Service Act, the Title X program has traditionally aimed to provide access to affordable services, including contraceptive methods, pregnancy testing, options counseling, and sexually transmitted infection testing.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
Organon is best known for its Nexplanon contraceptive implant, but also offers fertility treatments and an expanding pipeline of biosimilars, Food and Drug Administration-approved versions of existing drugs.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Jade Boden-de Mel first experienced "unbearable" pain at 17 but says medics could not identify the cause and prescribed the contraceptive pill to manage it.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
Ritual and ethical absention and the use of contraceptive drugs seem to have played the major part in maintaining this stability.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
In contrast to China’s coercive one-child policy, Thailand’s “reproductive revolution” was the result of a voluntary rollout of contraceptives, including to married women.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Usually, invasive species are deliberately targeted by humans to try to bring them under control, like the initiative to feed contraceptives to grey squirrels.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
More than 100 million women worldwide now use oral contraceptives daily.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The teen birthrate fell 7% last year, extending a yearslong decline related to public-health campaigns and growing use of longer-acting contraceptives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
—Gethenians tend to have their children young; most of them, after the age of twenty-four or so, use contraceptives, and they cease to be fertile in the female phase at about forty.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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