After you give birth, you can get pregnant even before your period returns! It’s smart to plan ahead, and to research your options for birth control. Here we take a look at three female barrier ...

Donna J. Drucker is senior adviser in English as the Language of Instruction at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. She’s most recently the author of Contraception: A Concise History. This ...

As a woman with a disability, you have the right to decide whether to become pregnant and give birth, as well as the number, spacing, and timing of your children. You have a right to obtain accurate ...

Almost half of Zimbabwean women in a UCSF study say that the ability to use a diaphragm clandestinely was very or extremely important—a number that rises to 80 percent if their partners have other ...

Birth control methods are meant to evolve with your personal, sexual, and general health needs. What worked in your teens may not be the right choice in your 20s, 30s, or 40s. That’s because your ...

Women have used internal barriers in an attempt to prevent pregnancies as far back as ancient Egypt. However, they only became widely known and used after World War I, when they became available ...

If you’re looking for an alternative to traditional birth control, fertility awareness methods (FAMs) could be for you. They’re a bit more complicated, yes. But they don’t involve any kind of hormonal ...

Human reproduction requires a perfect balance of so many factors that to scientists it seems little short of miraculous that the process ever succeeds. Yet for centuries man has failed to find an ...