The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Sanger

Charlie Kirk says the pill causes "angry, bitter young ladies" who vote for Democrats to get "free stuff"

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. 

The research behind hormonal male birth control is about as old as the pill. But a safe and effective candidate is tantalizingly close to market.

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, opened America’s first birth control clinic in 1916

From the founder’s role in introducing birth control to the US and her murky connections to the KKK and eugenics, to the organisation taking on the Pennsylvania governor in the Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood has long been at the forefront of the fight for reproductive rights, writes Rachel Sharp

A draft Supreme Court opinion suggesting the right to abortion will be overturned is highlighting the risk to Black and Hispanic women

HARTFORD, Conn. — With a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling months away, the state Senate debated emotionally Friday night before approving a key abortion bill that would be the most far-reaching in Connecticut in the past 32 years.

Early research for a non-hormonal male contraceptive shows remarkable results in lab mice

If you are Black or Hispanic in a state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one