birth control

We discussed the news that pharmacists will now be able to prescribe birth control. Then we heard from our friends at Points North about the Camp Grayling training facility . After that we turned to some poetry about butterflies. We ended with a conversation about the Washtenaw County Courthouse Art exhibit.

A state policy will make it easier for women to access many common types of birth control without a visit to the doctor’s office. Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the policy Monday during a visit to Flint.

The short answer is: yes. Plan B and other contraceptive measures remain legal in Michigan. But language in the Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe leads some to believe that legal protections for birth control might be in trouble.

A new Michigan State University study finds a common form of birth control may increase blood lead levels in women.Depo-Provera (medroxyprogesterone…

Last year the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued rules that employers could opt out of covering birth control for their employees. The…

A new University of Michigan study finds expanded Medicaid coverage is increasing access to family planning and birth control for poor women in…

In 1960, the first oral contraceptive was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as contraception.That drug, Enovid, changed the course of…

The Michigan Senate is considering a bill that would prohibit employers from asking employees or job applicants about their birth control use. Senate Bill…

KENTWOOD, Mich. (AP) - A company in the Grand Rapids area is not required to provide employee health insurance for birth control as a result of a U.S.…

The state Senate Health Policy Committee has approved a measure that allows health care providers and insurance companies to deny patients medical…