This means more pharmacists will refuse to fill basic birth control prescriptions here. They are promoting unintended pregnancy and in turn encouraging the very practice they detest.

When you put someone on the birth control pill, you block a lot of the ovarian production [of testosterone].

Beyond a year, we don't know [what happens]. The question is, does the birth control pill imprint on the body a signal to continue making this protein that attaches to the testosterone? If so, these women would have less testosterone.

There's evidence that women may switch methods of birth control or stop using the pill because they think it contributes to weight gain.

all new partners, no condoms, no birth control, no consequences at all.

We are on the right track. But the challenge is to put effective birth control measures in the northern states.