Now there’s a pioneering project making prescription birth control accessible online. It’s called PRJKT RUBY, and it lets people (ages 18 and up) order the pill, mini-pill, and ella emergency contraception online without having to physically visit a health care provider.
There are medications that can interfere with some kinds of birth control (most antibiotics won’t, btw). Let’s talk details, why these meds mess with birth control, and what alternatives women taking these meds have.
Wouldn’t it be nice on days like those not to have to worry about pads, tampons, or pain killers? If you use the pill or the ring for birth control, you are in luck—you can skip periods as you please.
A break is definitely the best thing for your body right after a pregnancy, but if you’re not exclusively breastfeeding in a very particular way, you can ovulate as soon as three weeks after birth…
In 2012, a small Pennsylvania college made national headlines for putting packs of the emergency contraceptive pill Plan B in a vending machine in their student health center. Imagine the uproar if that vending machine had packs of the pill in it, too.