As recently as the early 1960s, contraceptives were illegal in Canada. People still used them, according to Christabelle Sethna, a professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Ottawa, ...

Birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger appears before a U.S. Senate committee for federal birth-control legislation in Washington, D.C. on March 1, 1934. She began her crusade in 1912 when she saw ...

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Dispensing 12 month’s worth of birth control pills at a time — instead of the typical three-month pack — could prevent hundreds of unwanted pregnancies, a new study has found. In conjunction with the ...