reproductive health
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Twitter’s New Rules Against Political Ads Could Silence Health Clinics, Too
Twitter will ban all political topics from its paid ads, Jack Dorsey announced this week. But that means “issue” ads too, which that anything can be banned if the folks in charge (or, more likely, an algorithm that they train) considers the topic too political.
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Which Period Tracker Is Best For You?
There are so many different period tracking apps because there are so many different reasons to use one: maybe you want to watch out for fertile days so you can get pregnant, or maybe you want to track your moods and symptoms every day so you can figure out if you get headaches or feel…
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How To Choose A Birth Control Pill
“The Pill” is not a monolith: there are hundreds of birth control pills out there, and they’re not all the same. But most people are never given a choice. They walk into their local doctor’s office, ask for the pill and get a prescription that may or may not be the best one for their…
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What ‘Six Weeks Pregnant’ Really Means
Fact: On the day you have sex to make a baby, you are considered two weeks pregnant already. And you can’t possibly even know that you’re pregnant until four or five weeks.