The weekly hormonal patch is just as effective as the pill at preventing pregnancy while being significantly easier to take as directed.
Female sterilization is the most common form of birth control in the United States.
Find out what you need to know about tubal ligation. A new monthly contraceptive injection is being marketed to women who are able to take the hormones in oral contraceptives but cannot remember to take a pill everyday. Emergency contraception can prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 hours after intercourse. Access to the morning-after pill is now available online. As physicians and medical organizations step up their efforts to make emergency contraception more widely available, some abortion opponents are arguing that the morning-after pill causes abortions.