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Panel: Insurers improperly limit birth control access Some of the nation’s largest insurers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) impose coverage exclusions and other restrictions on birth ...
If it is changed or overturned (as Project 2025 recommends) 55 million women may lose access to free birth control and other preventative services, according to the National Women’s Law Center ...
As the birth control societies spread across Europe, so did birth control clinics. The first birth control clinic in the world was established in the Netherlands in 1882, run by the Netherlands' first female physician, Aletta Jacobs. [20] The first birth control clinic in England was established in 1921 by Marie Stopes, in London. [21]
Bedsider.org (Bedsider) is a free birth control support network for women ages 18–29. The network is operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy; a research based non-profit, non-partisan organization located in Washington, D.C. Launched in November 2011, its goal is to help women find the method of birth control that’s right for them and learn how to use it ...
Certain aspects of the contraception mandate did not start with the ACA. In December 2000, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that companies that provided prescription drugs to their employees but didn't provide birth control were in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prevents discrimination on the basis of sex.
As president, Trump reduced access to contraception for lower-income people by cutting funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program and bringing in restrictions on the Title X program.
Plan A, a free community clinic in Louise, Mississippi, that also runs a mobile clinic in the Mississippi Delta and a forthcoming clinic in Georgia, is able to provide all forms of birth control ...
Comprehensive sex education and access to birth control decreases the rate of unintended pregnancies in this age group. [15] [16] While all forms of birth control can generally be used by young people, [17] long-acting reversible birth control such as implants, IUDs, or vaginal rings are more successful in reducing rates of teenage pregnancy. [16]