We are entering a startling new era in the politics of birth control, with President Donald Trump launching the most serious effort in decades to curb contraception. The Department of Health and Human ...

On its face, The Icon and the Idealist is not a book about abortion. Thanks to advances in technology and medical knowledge, Americans have become accustomed to an ideological separation between ...

In the arc of history, women haven’t had it so good. Just biologically, there are the crises of pregnancy, the miscarriages and the risks of maternal, fetal and infant mortality. Reproductive-health ...

Judging by how commonly birth control is practiced in the United States, it ought to rank among the least controversial of subjects. In surveys, ninety-nine per cent of women of reproductive age ...

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In “The Icon and the Idealist,” Stephanie Gorton tells the story of two women who fought a patriarchal system — and each other. By Clara Bingham Clara Bingham’s most recent book is “The Movement: How ...

Hey, writer-director-producer Ryan Murphy, if you’re looking for subjects for future installments of TV’s “Feud” franchise, the clash between turn-of-the-last-century birth control activists Margaret ...