/tags/birth-control Birth Control en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:54:59 GMT /health/2024-07-26/texas-sues-biden-administration-over-confidential-contraception-for-teens Federal clinics in Texas are already required to get parental permission to prescribe birth control after a 2022 court ruling. Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:54:59 GMT /health/2024-07-26/texas-sues-biden-administration-over-confidential-contraception-for-teens Eleanor Klibanoff /texasstandard/2024-01-25/texas-abortion-ban-teen-births-increase The uptick comes a year after Texas� six-week abortion ban went into effect in 2021. Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:30:00 GMT /texasstandard/2024-01-25/texas-abortion-ban-teen-births-increase Alexandra Hart /politics/2023-11-06/appeals-court-considers-whether-texas-teens-should-be-allowed-contraception-without-parental-consent Last year, Judge Matthew Kacmsaryk closed off one of the only avenues for Texas teens to get confidential contraception. The 5th Circuit on Monday considered arguments in the case. Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:10:11 GMT /politics/2023-11-06/appeals-court-considers-whether-texas-teens-should-be-allowed-contraception-without-parental-consent Eleanor Klibanoff /health/2023-07-13/fda-approves-opill-the-first-daily-birth-control-pill-without-a-prescription From convenience stores to online, the tablet "will be an available option for millions of people in the United States," the director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research says. Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:16:29 GMT /health/2023-07-13/fda-approves-opill-the-first-daily-birth-control-pill-without-a-prescription Bill Chappell /health/2023-03-09/girls-in-texas-could-get-birth-control-at-federal-clinics-until-a-dad-sued Trump-appointed federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that free birth control for teens from a federal program violates Texas law and parental rights. For now, it's still available in other states. Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:11:21 GMT /health/2023-03-09/girls-in-texas-could-get-birth-control-at-federal-clinics-until-a-dad-sued Sarah Varney /health/2023-01-04/texas-family-planning-clinics-require-parental-consent-for-birth-control-following-court-ruling The Title X program has long provided free, confidential contraception to anyone, regardless of age, income or immigration status. A North Texas federal judge ruled in December that the program violates Texas law and parents� rights. Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:37:23 GMT /health/2023-01-04/texas-family-planning-clinics-require-parental-consent-for-birth-control-following-court-ruling Eleanor Klibanoff, Sneha Dey /health/2022-12-04/in-the-hunt-for-a-male-contraceptive-scientists-look-to-stop-sperm-in-their-tracks For decades birth control research focused on women. Now there's a new push to develop gels, pills or other products that could keep men from getting their partners pregnant. Mon, 05 Dec 2022 16:42:20 GMT /health/2022-12-04/in-the-hunt-for-a-male-contraceptive-scientists-look-to-stop-sperm-in-their-tracks Regina G. Barber, Andrea Muraskin /health/2022-10-18/what-its-like-to-date-and-have-sex-under-texas-abortion-ban Some people are having deeper conversations earlier on in dating � not just about contraception and potential pregnancy but about values. The result can be increased intimacy, but also exhaustion, particularly among women. Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:05:00 GMT /health/2022-10-18/what-its-like-to-date-and-have-sex-under-texas-abortion-ban Audrey McGlinchy /health/2022-10-17/vasectomy-tubes-tied-sterilization-abortion-ban-roe-v-wade-overturned Local doctors have seen a surge in requests for vasectomies and salpingectomies since Texas' abortion bans went into effect. Some people see this as a way to remain childfree, while others want to avoid high-risk pregnancies. Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:01:00 GMT /health/2022-10-17/vasectomy-tubes-tied-sterilization-abortion-ban-roe-v-wade-overturned Marisa Charpentier /health/2022-08-16/title-x-advocates-worry-that-birth-control-may-go-the-same-way-as-abortion A Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. Now there's a big push to increase funding for Title X, a federal program that offers birth control and other reproductive care to low-income patients. Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:11:28 GMT /health/2022-08-16/title-x-advocates-worry-that-birth-control-may-go-the-same-way-as-abortion Ben Paviour