Morning-after pills — perhaps best known by the brand name Plan B — are emergency contraceptives that can help prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex. However, myths and misinformation abound about ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is considering whether to make morning-after birth control available without a prescription, and like most issues that involve sex and pregnancy, it has generated ...

The morning-after pill is legal across the U.S., even in the states with the strictest abortion bans — but many Americans don’t know that, in part due to a mistaken belief that the pill is abortion ...

The anticipation of a Republican-controlled federal government, with Donald Trump serving a second term as president, has left many women fearful over access to reproductive health care, even though ...

The research could further complicate the polarized politics of abortion because the drug in the study is the key ingredient in a pill used for emergency contraception. By Pam Belluck and Emily ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched a Food and Drug Administration review of mifepristone, a pill used in nearly two-thirds of abortions across the U.S. In a letter ...

The morning-after pill helps prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, but its efficacy differs depending on the user's body mass and the timing of when they take the medication. When you purchase ...