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#birthcontrol

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Preston MacDougall

Today’s ‘Featured article’ on @wikipedia is about Margaret Sanger, the ‘mother’ of the #BirthControl Movement and founder of Planned Parenthood. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margar

The birth control movement soon ‘went on steroids’, thanks to #chemistry and the development of synthetic steroids by multiple ‘fathers’, including Russell Marker at Penn State and then Carl Djerassi, Jorge Rosenkranz and Luis Miramontes in #Mexico City.

“Chemical Eye 👁️ on the Pill” sitnews.us/MacDougall/032405_m

en.m.wikipedia.orgMargaret Sanger - Wikipedia
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Nonilex

Even when non-#abortion services like #birthcontrol & cervical #cancer screenings are covered by #insurance, clinics aren't always reimbursed for the full cost, Thornton Greear said.

"The reality is that insurance reimbursement rates across the board are low," she said. "It's been that way for a while. When you start looking at the costs to run a #healthcare organization, from supply #costs, etc, when you layer on these #funding impacts, it creates a chasm that's impossible to fill."

#economy
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Broadwaybabyto

The US dismantled most Covid wastewater testing to save money, yet Texas wants to test water for birth control, abortion pills & hormones associated with gender affirming care.

This is an assault on reproductive rights & another move towards a full surveillance state.

This isn’t about increasing the birth rate or protecting children. It’s about control.

#uspoli#fascism#reproductiverights
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ErosBlog Bacchus

Today on ErosBlog: a 1966 magazine article on condoms. Chiefly it's about the primarily anticompetitive reasons why condoms were then mostly for sale only via drug stores and not by mail order, but there are disquisitions into (probably spurious) condom history and literary discussions of French ticklers and penis modification:

erosblog.com/2025/04/19/report

ErosBlog · Report On Rubber Goods - ErosBlogIn the November/December/January 1966 issue of Hip & Toe magazine we find this Report On Rubber Goods, being a bit of an eye-opening discourse on the... Tagged: sex blogging, condoms, french ticklers, vintage condoms
#Condoms#FrenchTicklers#Prophylactics
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Heliograph

@kottke wow what a woman :O :akko_fistup:
"#McCormick’s interest in #birthcontrol began in the 1910s, when she learned of Margaret Sanger, the feminist leader who had been jailed for opening the nation’s first birth control clinic. She shared Sanger’s fervent belief that women should be able to chart their own biological destinies. From 1922 to 1925, McCormick smuggled more than 1,000 #diaphragms into Sanger’s clinics."

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Nonilex

“President #Trump & #ElonMusk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping #health care access from people nationwide, & not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Johnson said in a stmnt.

Federally funded programs such as #TitleX are crucial in providing access to #affordable #ReproductiveHealthcare, said Kelly Baden, VP for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports #AbortionRights.

#FammilyPlanning#MaternalMortality#BirthControl
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Nonilex

The WSJ reported last week #RFKJr’s #HHS planned an immediate freeze of $27.5M in #FamilyPlanning grants for groups including #PlannedParenthood.

PPFA says >300 #health centers are in the #TitleX network & Title X-funded centers received >1.5M visits in 2023.

The loss of funding will mean that “cancers go undetected, access to #BirthControl is severely reduced, & the nation’s #STI crisis worsens,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, PPFA president.

#ReproductiveHealthcare#ReproductiveRights#law
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Voting is Your POWER

By VOTING for DEMOCRATS, WE PROTECT OUR FREEDOM

The Healey-Driscoll Administration in Massachusetts has implemented two standing orders allowing approximately 500,000 eligible Massachusetts residents to obtain free over-the-counter birth control pills and prenatal vitamins. #uspol #uspolitics #freedom #birthcontrol #health #massachusetts #mapol #mapoli

wgbh.org/news/health/2025-03-0

GBH · State orders open access to free prenatal vitamins, birth controlBy Sam Drysdale | State House News Service
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Maggie Maybe

I ❤️ Massachusetts.

Governor Healey just made prenatal vitamins and OTC birth control part of mass health & some other medical mass insurance program.

I rejoice when I see something helping women who want to have children and who don’t want to have children. This is really wonderful, but I’m kind of surprised that someone on mass health who is pregnant would have had to pay for prenatals anyway.

#massachusetts#BirthControl#MassHealth
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Hiisikoloart

I have came to the conclusion that it is hard for people to understand to wear a mask as a part of layering protections, like vaccinating, clean air, testing, and isolating when ill....because the same people seem to think that AFAB person using birth control alone is enough to prevent pregnancy.

Birth control alone is not 100% effective. Layer protections to prevent crotch goblins AND STD's. Both partners need to be protected.

Mask up both up and down.

#masks#birthcontrol
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