Feds offer millions to develop new birth control methods

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The federal government is offering more than $6 million in grants to entities to explore new methods of birth control, including new ways to get people who don’t use contraceptives to start using them.

The National Institutes of Health, which released the grant announcement Thursday, said new methods are needed because the number of unwanted pregnancies in the U.S. is still “extremely high.”

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