Birth Control Information
The explorer is a place to learn about all of the different methods of birth control. Click on any method for more details!
This online tool from UCSF is a great way to help find what birth control method might be right for you.
Thanks to the health care law, most health insurance plans must cover birth control and other important women’s health needs at no additional costs to you.
If you’re still paying out-of-pocket for your birth control and other health care, their free hotline can help. (A project of the National Women’s Law Center).
The Birth Control App! Take control of your fertility. Get to know your body with a hormone-free birth control app, so you can prevent pregnancy on your own terms. Natural Cycles is the first and remains the only app to be cleared by the US FDA for the use of birth control. When you use Natural Cycles perfectly, the birth control app is 98% effective. Perfect use means using condoms or abstaining from sex on red days (when you’re fertile).
Reproductive Health Access Project
The Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) is a national nonprofit organization that provides medically accurate information sheets about abortion, contraception, and miscarriage management.
Nurx is on online pharmacy that allows you to get a prescription for birth control without needing to see, or pay for seeing, a provider in the clinic. This includes birth control pills, emergency contraception medication, STI testing, and more.
An app for anyone who wants accurate, complete, and unbiased information about sexual and reproductive health (SRH). You can download it in the Apple app store and Google Play store. It is the first app of its kind to offer SRH information and tools to track what’s going on with your body in one place AND on a totally private and secure platform. Euki addresses the needs of anyone who can get pregnant, including queer people, transgender people, gender non-conforming people, people with multiple sex partners, people with irregular periods, and anyone who may have felt misunderstood or marginalized by the medical system. Euki also puts abortion back where it belongs – alongside comprehensive information about sexual health. Turn to Euki for information on sexuality, abortion, miscarriage, contraception, and STIs from sources you can trust, like the World Health Organization, Scarleteen, and All-Options.