Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At every stage of life, New Yorkers should have the right to make their own deeply personal health decisions about their bodies ...

Oral contraceptives for women, like the ones pictured above, were first approved by the federal government in 1960. Now, University of Minnesota researchers are working on oral contraceptives for men.

The Supreme Court disregarded the issue of precedent when it overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision in 2022, unraveling the legal right to abortion in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ...

Should a judge decide a mother's birth plan? The case of a Florida woman in active labor exposes how post-Dobbs healthcare is ...

Women's Voices Now announced its 12th Annual Online Documentary Film Festival, featuring 39 films from 26 countries focused ...

Early women’s rights advocates had different opinions about bodily autonomy from modern abortion-rights advocates, according to Erika Bachiochi, author of The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision ...

Here's a news item no one saw coming: A man was deemed unworthy of heading the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) because he didn't demonstrate sufficient respect for Americans' rights to take ...

"My body, my choice" goes beyond reproductive rights; pass medical aid in dying to give New Yorkers the options they deserve. Credit: Getty Images. New York is a state that prides itself on protecting ...

Conversations around body confidence are shifting from “body acceptance” to “body autonomy”, which answers the question with a simple: because people are free to choose what feels good for them, and ...