Birth control

China taxes condoms, contraceptives, in push to combat declining population

China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024 and experts have cautioned the downturn will continue.

WOMEN PUSH strollers with young children through a commercial plaza featuring colorful decorations and play structures, including hot air balloon-themed displays, on May 20, 2025 in Chongqing, China.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen hold a doorstep at Marienborg, Lyngby-Taarbaek, Denmark, April 27, 2025.

Denmark apologizes for involuntary birth control campaign in Greenland

 A scientist studies cancer cells inside white blood cells through a microscope at the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) research centre in Stevenage, Britain November 26, 2019.

New research shows promising results for innovative male contraception gel, reducing sperm count

Woman faces open-heart surgery from wrongly implanted contraceptive


Israel's fertility rate comparable to U.S. 'baby boom,' study finds

Among the population of ultra-Orthodox women, the average fertility rate is somewhere in the area of seven children per family.

Illustrative image of a newborn baby

Birth control in Jewish law: One rabbi says condoms might be OK

"We need to know that the use of condoms is possibly relevant even when there is no danger to the woman if she gets pregnant and only if birth control is permitted for her spouse."

Durex condoms are seen in a photo illustration in Manchester, Britain, July 31, 2018.

Breaking the silence: Birth control and its side effects

Today’s young women are self-aware and wise.

‘THE VAST majority of women are prescribed oral contraception with little to no instruction about how to take them, and with no mention about the emotional and physical stress it may cause.’

Hospitals requiring women to get rabbis’ permission for birth control

The Health Ministry is probing two hospitals for telling women who sought tubal ligation to obtain approval from what officials called "the hospital rabbis."

A MAN and his children cross the street in Bnei Brak while he speaks on his cellphone.