How to Use birth control in a Sentence

birth control

noun
  • 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
  • The news came as a shock because Fiona's father died in 2017, and Bibi has been on birth control.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • And for you, the experience will serve as birth control.
    Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The new year is set to see a slew of new laws enacted across the country that expand access to birth control.
    Ellen Connelly Taaffe, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2024
  • She’d been dragged to a doctor who prescribed birth control and tested her for S.T.D.s.
    Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • Most Iowans support offering birth control pills over the counter, a new poll shows.
    USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Losing fistfuls of hair might happen while the body adjusts to the hormones in birth control pills.
    Christin Perry, Parents, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The devices, which are placed within the uterus to prevent pregnancy, are the third most common form of birth control in the US.
    Maya Davis, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
  • All that said, the bills Rogers supported would not have banned either IVF or birth control.
    Caleb McCullough, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2024
  • But this is the first birth control pill that has been approved for use without a prescription from a health care provider.
    Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 4 Mar. 2024
  • On Monday, the White House also proposed a plan that, if put into effect, would require private insurers to cover over-the-counter birth control methods at no cost to patients.
    Paulina Smolinski, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The bill, first introduced in 2022 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, would establish a statutory right to birth control and protect health care providers' ability to provide contraception.
    Andrew Solender, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024

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