Does the birth control pill increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer?

Isn’t using birth control better than having unwanted teen pregnancies and abortions?

Abstinence is fine, but don’t you think schools should teach about condoms for those who are going to be sexually active?

Anti-Fertility Vaccines

Birth Control for Men

Birth Control Pills

Cervical Cap

Condom

Depo-Provera (“The Shot”) & Lunelle

Diaphragm

Intrauterine Device (IUD) & Intrauterine System (IUS)

Morning After Pill (Plan B Emergency Contraception)

Norplant and Implanon

NuvaRing

Patch (Ortho Evra)

RU-485 (Abortion pill)

Spermicides

I take the Pill for ovarian cysts and my friend uses it to regulate her cycle, but neither of us is sexually active. Are there other options for us?

Sterilization Surgeries

Evidence that Demands Action: Comparing Risk Avoidance and Risk Reduction Strategies for HIV Prevention

Medical Institute for Sexual Health The Medical Institute for Sexual Health hosted a briefing for the Honorable Randall Tobias, Global AIDS Coordinator, Department of State, in Washington, DC on January Read more...

Abstinence Works 2013

Abstinence Works 2013 is a definitive report by the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA) demonstrating that Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) Abstinence programs work. Read more...

Evidence on the Effectiveness of Abstinence Education: An Update

The Heritage Foundation – February 19, 2010 Read Full Report Teen sexual activity remains a widespread problem confronting the nation. Each year, some 2. Read more...

Virginity Pledges Delay Sexual Activity

“Virginity Pledges Among the Willing: Delays in First Intercourse and Consistency of Condom Use,” Journal of Adolescent Health, 43 (2008): 341–348. Read more...

Washington Times: Comprehensive Sex Education Doesn’t Work

“Evaluating what matters” – The Washington Times (November 27, 2009) In the weeks ahead Congress will prepare to vote sweeping changes to federal funding for sex education. Read more...

Efficacy of Abstinence Education

“Efficacy of a theory-based abstinence-only intervention over 24 months: a randomized controlled trial with young adolescents,” Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, 2010 Feb;164 (2):152-9. Read more...

Media Distorts Results of Virginity Pledge Study (again)

“Like a Virgin: The Press Take On Teenage Sex” – The Wall Street Journal (January 6, 2009) The chain reaction was something out of central casting. Read more...

Comprehensive Sex Education vs. Authentic Abstinence: A Study of Competing Curricula

Heritage Foundation (August 10, 2004) Sexual activity in the teen years is linked to a number of important social concerns, including sexually-transmitted diseases, teenage pregnancy, out-of-wedlock childbirth, and depression. Read more...

Teen Sexual Activity Rates: 2006-2010

 Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth Centers for Disease Control – US Department of Health and Human Services READ Read more...

The Case for Maintaining Abstinence Education Funding

Heritage Foundation (July 24, 2009) Read Full Text The President’s budget for Fiscal Year 2010 would eliminate abstinence education funding. Read more...

Teenage Sexual Abstinence and Academic Achievement

Heritage Foundation (October 27, 2005) Read Full Report There is strong and widespread support of teaching sexual abstinence to American teens. Read more...

Government Spends $12 on Safe Sex and Contraceptives for Every $1 Spent on Abstinence

Heritage Foundation, Executive Summary – January 14, 2004. Read Full Text Early this year, Congress will work to renew welfare reform by reauthorizing the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Read more...

Facts about Abstinence Education

Heritage Foundation – March 30, 2004. In April, the Senate will vote on reauthorization of welfare reform. Read more...

The Harmful Effects of Early Sexual Activity and Multiples Sexual Partners Among Women: A Book of Charts

The Heritage Foundation – June 23, 2003 READ FULL REPORT This report examines the linkages between early initiation of sexual activity, number of non-marital sex partners, and human well-being. Read more...

Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) Education: Considerations for Protecting Teen Health

A Report by the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA) June 2012 Today, American teens encounter unprecedented pressures from all sides to engage in sexual activity. Read more...

The Attack on Abstinence Education: Fact or Fallacy?

The Medical Institute for Sexual Health: The Journal of Adolescent Health published a review article entitled “Abstinence and abstinence-only education: A review of US policies and programs” and a second Read more...

Postfertilization effects of oral contraceptives and their relationship to informed consent.

Archives of Family Medicine 2000 Feb;9 (2): 126-33. The primary mechanism of oral contraceptives is to inhibit ovulation, but this mechanism is not always operative. Read more...

Mayo Clinic: Birth Control Pill Increases Breast Cancer Risk

“Oral Contraceptive Use as a Risk Factor for Premenopausal Breast Cancer: A Meta-analysis,” Kahlenborn, et al., Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2006 Oct; 81(10): 1290-302. Read more...

Combined Estrogen-Progestogen Contraceptives are Carcinogenic

IARC Monographs Programme Finds Combined Estrogen-Progestogen Contraceptives and Menopausal Therapy are Carcinogenic to Humans – World Health Organization: Read Full Text An IARC Monographs Working Group has concluded that combined Read more...

Oral Contraception Linked to Prostate Deformities

New Scientist  (May 3, 2005) Read more...

Pill Linked to Cervical Cancer Risk

BBC News – April 4, 2003: Long term use of the contraceptive pill could contribute to a woman’s risk of developing cervical cancer, researchers suggest. Human papillomavirus (HPV) Read more...

Breast Cancer and Hormonal Contraceptives

“Breast Cancer and Hormonal Contraceptives: Collaborative Reanalysis of Individual Data on 53,297 Women with Breast Cancer and 100,239 Women without Breast Cancer from 54 Epidemiological Studies,” by Collaborative Group on Hormonal Read more...

Depo-Provera Increases STD Risk

“Hormonal contraceptive use, cervical ectopy, and the acquisition of cervical infections,” Morrison, et al., Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2004 Sep;31(9): 561-7. Read more...

The effectiveness of a fertility awareness based method to avoid pregnancy in relation to a couple’s sexual behaviour during the fertile time: a prospective longitudinal study

Human Reproduction Vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 1310-1319, 2007 The efficacy of fertility awareness based (FAB) methods of family planning is critically reviewed. Read more...

An epidemiologic study of contraception and preeclampsia

Journal of the American Medical Association  The primary hypothesis of this study was that contraceptive methods that prevent exposure to sperm and seminal fluid (condoms, diaphragms, spermicides, withdrawal) Read more...

Seminal ‘priming’ for protection from pre-eclampsia: A unifying hypothesis

Journal of Reproductive Immunology  Conventional belief holds that an immune response to ejaculate antigens should interfere with fertilisation and establishment of pregnancy. Read more...