Haley Lickstein, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/hlickstein/ More Than A Magazine, A Movement Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:03:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://msmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-ms-logo-32x32.jpg Haley Lickstein, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/hlickstein/ 32 32 What 200 Gen Z Women Told Me About Birth Control Should Alarm Every Woman in America https://msmagazine.com/2025/12/17/young-women-teen-girls-gen-z-birth-control-beliefs-democrat-republican-tiktok-misinformation-contraception/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:30:00 +0000 https://msmagazine.com/?p=390126 Birth control is the single most powerful tool for women’s economic mobility and autonomy in modern history. It changed everything: When women could plan if, when and with whom they wanted to have children, college enrollment soared, dropout rates fell and poverty rates declined. The ability to access contraception has been directly tied to women’s ability to stay in school, build careers and make decisions about their own futures.

So why, in 2025, are we finding ourselves in a messaging war on birth control?

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