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BY RAEGAN MCDONALD-MOSLEY | In July 2023, the FDA approved the progestin-only birth control pill, Opill, for over-the-counter access. Getting a birth control pill over the counter means that anyone (no matter their age or gender) can buy it without needing to talk to a healthcare provider or getting a prescription.

While the pharmaceutical company Perrigo announced shipment to local retailers on Monday, it may take a few weeks until you see Opill on store shelves near you.

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An activist outside the legislature in Alberta, Canada, on May 8, 2022, protests in solidarity with U.S. women in defense of abortion rights. (Artur Widak / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

BY SHOSHANNA EHRLICH | The anti-abortion movement moved a step closer to realizing its goal of achieving fetal personhood when the Alabama Supreme Court held that frozen embryos are children for purposes of the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. However, the 8-1 ruling is a victory with a discernable twist. Republican lawmakers and their allies are now scrambling since at least three Alabama IVF providers have suspended their family-building services while they sort out the ruling’s implications.

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BY KARLA J. STRAND | Each month, we provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.

You can choose from an epic graphic memoir, a darling of a biography, collections of poignant essays and stories of 1950s India, Chinese-Canadian coming of age, star-crossed lovers in Cameroon or Korean stray cats. 

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Listen to United Bodies—a new podcast about the lived experience of health, from Ms. Studios, on Apple Podcasts + Spotify. 

For many of us, spiritual health is a facet of our health that we consider less, perhaps even give less weight to or spend less time cultivating. Editor, journalist and Harvard Divinity School graduate Philip Picardi joins to discuss how acknowledging and engaging in our individual spirituality, however you label that, or in whatever way that may look, can ground us, give us purpose, and guide us, even if it doesn’t come easy.

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