Contraception | featured news

Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.

Federal health officials on Friday approved a new type of morning-after contraceptive that works longer than the current leading drug on the market.

An advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light Thursday to an emergency contraceptive for use up to five days after sex.

A new, longer-lasting "morning-after" pill to prevent unwanted pregnancy appears to work with no unexpected side effects, U.S. health regulatory staff said in documents released on Tuesday.

For half a century, women have had access to birth control pills. Men? Still waiting.

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Could birth control pills be taking human evolution in a whole new, and possibly detrimental, direction?

But recently, the Yaz line's image has been clouded by concerns from some researchers, health advocates and plaintiffs' lawyers. They say that the drugs put women at higher risk for blood clots, strokes and other health problems than some other birth control pills do.

Millions has been spent on research, yet there's still no male birth control. Will men ever share in the burden of pregnancy prevention?

"It's a hard choice, but it's the safest choice and it's the best choice," she says.