Search "fertility awareness" or "natural birth control" on TikTok and you'll find an endless scroll of videos — oftentimes with sparkle and flower emoji for emphasis. While not sound medical advice, ...

Watching my cycle like a hawk to prevent pregnancy has been effective for me — and, no, it’s not the rhythm method. By Rachel Mans McKenny This story was originally published on Sept. 13, 2019 in NYT ...

Perhaps you’re old enough to remember the “calendar rhythm method" of birth control. Before the Pill became available in the late 1960s, the “rhythm method” was quite popular, especially among those ...

When she was 23, Blume — now 28 and living in Wilmington, North Carolina — started embracing a more “natural” lifestyle, which for her meant paying attention to what she ate, and avoiding cleaning ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? The first time I had sex without a condom, I cried. It wasn’t that I ...

A federal court has blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to exclude fertility-awareness methods from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate in a win for advocates of natural family ...

Long before the pill, even before condoms, women have tried to exert control over if and when they get pregnant. The method of tracking fertility has existed in some iteration for centuries, but ...

More than 25 years ago, while living in Australia, Karen Beitzel and her husband were looking for an alternative to the birth control pill. Beitzel saw advertisements for a method that allowed women ...

Perhaps you’re old enough to remember the “calendar rhythm method" of birth control. Before the Pill became available in the late 1960s, the “rhythm method” was quite popular, especially among those ...

The Trump administration wants to replace reliable birth control methods with "fertility awareness," a dubious family-planning technique that fails nearly a quarter of women every year. In a leaked ...

A federal court has blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to exclude fertility-awareness methods from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate in a win for advocates of natural family ...