How to Use birth control in a Sentence

birth control

noun
  • But birth control pills can cost upwards of hundreds of dollars for those who don’t fit into one of those groups.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Most people don’t know that the birth control pill was a Mexican invention.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Legal experts have already warned that overturning Roe could result in some birth control bans.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 14 May 2022
  • But the film’s many questionable claims about hormonal birth control seem designed not to inform viewers, but to persuade them.
    Amy Zimmerman, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2022
  • Just a few weeks before her wedding in the fall of 1954, my mother asked her physician for advice about birth control.
    Alexandra M. Lord, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2022
  • The Arkansas program can provide birth control to minors without a parent or guardian’s consent.
    Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The debate over when pregnancy begins is causing confusion and access problems for women who are seeking birth control.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2024
  • That is, until a birth control conversation, just like in Love is Blind Season 6, derailed them a bit.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The bill includes a requirement for public facilities, like schools and prisons to offer free sanitary pads and a plan to make certain birth control free.
    Kalie Drago, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • Alabama’s law doesn’t forbid contraception, including birth control pills.
    al, 3 May 2022
  • The experts said the rate has decreased due to several reasons, including greater access to contraceptives as well as more birth control methods with higher efficacy rates.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 12 May 2022
  • The right to birth control could very well be the next target.
    Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
  • This has been enough birth control to last me at least 10 years.
    R29 Team, refinery29.com, 11 Sep. 2024
  • What would be the safest way for someone my age to get birth control?
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Included was The Pill in 1975, one of the first songs to discuss birth control.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The mother called and asked if her daughter should go on birth control.
    Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Here's a brief overview of male birth control through the centuries.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
  • Bill Baird, the ‘father’ of birth control, on the religious right and Supreme Court.
    Brittany Levine Beckman, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
  • That said though, it shouldn’t be used as daily birth control.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Read More Once the over-the-counter birth control pill is available, what about cost and coverage?
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
  • Cramping is the main birth control side effect for IUD users.
    Heather Viggiani, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Much of the change was attributed to wider knowledge of long-lasting birth control, like the IUD.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
  • About 10 weeks ago, the birth control failed between the woman and her partner.
    Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The right to access birth control was enshrined in a 1965 Supreme Court ruling.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 5 June 2024
  • The same is true for people who have just come off of hormonal birth control.
    Lindsay Modglin, Health, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Chan said birth control can be a good option for some, but not all, of her PCOS patients.
    Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The previous year, the court sanctioned birth control for the unwed.
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
  • Meanwhile, there are other forms of male birth control in the pipeline.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • How Puerto Rican women were used to test the birth control pill.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The invention of the birth control pill, and women are crying out for it on this planet.
    Samantha Barry, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023

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