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Mifepristone interrupts the flow of the hormone progesterone that creates and sustains a pregnancy. People take it, followed by misoprostol, if their period is late and they suspect they’re pregnant, but don’t want to be. (Robin Marty / Flickr)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Menstrual regulation has a long history in the United States where, for centuries, women have used a wide range of herbs and medicinal teas to “induce” or “bring down” a late period when they did not want to be pregnant. Today, period pills—also known as “missed period pills” or “late period pills”—are medications that you can take if your period is late and you suspect you’re pregnant—but don’t want to be. Advocates believe period pills can help avert the negative consequences of new abortion bans, now in effect in over a dozen states across the country.

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Taylor Swift performs in Nashville in September. The musician is taking a break from releasing her re-recorded tracks to drop Midnights, her 10th studio album. (Catherine Powell / via Taylor Swift on Instagram)

BY JULIETTE HOLDER | In re-recording her albums and returning to her “old self, Swift isn’t so much resurrecting the dead, but recovering what was lost and reframing the public’s understanding of her, both then and now. Swift isn’t updating her songs as much as she’s updating her own mythology—and stepping into a feminist identity along the way.

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BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. 

This week: likely demographic changes in the 118th Congress; firsthand stories from women in Minnesota politics on the barriers they experience as women candidates; could another woman replace Liz Truss? ;and more.

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