Browsing: Birth

Good morning. Last month, we brought you the story behind the Guardian’s year-long investigation into the US-based Free Birth Society,…

Over a weekend in late June 2024, Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the Free Birth Society, hosted a festival on…

Hormonal contraceptives use the hormones estrogen and progestin to prevent you from ovulating (releasing an egg). Hormonal contraceptives thicken the cervical…

The NHS has been directing pregnant women to a website that connected them to the Free Birth Society, an organisation…

Good morning. This weekend, the Guardian launched the results of its year-long investigation into radical free birthing, and the US-based…

The Free Birth Society (FBS) is a business run from North Carolina that promotes the idea of women giving birth…

Social media has long been rife with misinformation about birth control, much of it slamming hormonal contraceptives for health harms…

Women must be given clearer warnings on the potentially fatal dangers of giving birth at home and should only be…

Nearly 27,000 packs of the birth control pill Viorele have been recalled nationwide, according to the Food and Drug Administration…

Myths about birth control have long proliferated in the US (thanks in part to the abysmal state of sex ed),…