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**Today at Ms. | September 26, 2024**

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Post-Roe, States With Abortion Bans Saw Steep Declines in Birth Control Prescriptions

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By Carrie N. Baker | Between abortion bans and decreasing access to contraception post-Dobbs, women are facing ever-increasing barriers to maintaining control over their reproductive lives, whether ending unwanted pregnancies—or preventing them.

(This article originally appears in the Fall 2024 issue of Ms. Join the Ms. community today and you’ll get issues delivered straight to your mailbox!)

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With Birth Control Under Attack, Enshrining It in Law Is Essential

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By Elena Yeatts-Lonske | We are the experts on our bodies, lives and needs—not politicians. Enshrining birth control in law would be a huge step toward recognizing our reproductive rights.

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Blue and Red States Were Putting Period Products in Schools—Then Came the Anti-Trans Backlash

Free pads and tampons in a bathroom at Justice High School in Falls Church, Va., on Sept. 11, 2019. (Alastair Pike / AFP via Getty Images)

By Chabeli Carrazana, The 19th | For years, bills that put tampons and pads in school bathrooms were gaining traction across states. But the rise of anti-trans legislation has made a health issue political.

“Anti-trans and regressive rhetoric has come into play around menstrual policies that have otherwise enjoyed a lot of bipartisan support. That, to me, was cause for concern about the direction these might be going in," says Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, one of the co-founders of Period Equity.

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