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Evie Magazine Averages an Anti-Birth Control Article Every Month

How a conservative lifestyle publication is manufacturing a generation's distrust of birth control

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Emily Amick
Mar 16, 2026
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Evie Magazine Founder Brittany Hugoboom in a signature milkmaid dress

This is part 3 in my series on the influencer attack on birth control. See parts 1 and 2 here.

I spent days going through the Evie Magazine archive to find all their articles attacking birth control. I built a spreadsheet cataloging every fertility article by date, author, and category. This type of work is time-consuming and, IMO, critically important. Please consider supporting my work by becoming a paid subscriber today.

Early last year, Evie Magazine published an article about Aubrey Plaza telling Howard Stern that birth control may have caused her stroke at age 20. A few months later, they ran a piece on the singer Lorde calling ovulation after getting off birth control “one of the best drugs I’ve ever done.” Then one about actress Ashley Greene’s appearance on a naturopath’s podcast saying doctors gave her birth control instead of real help. Then one about podcaster Alex Cooper describing being miserable after …

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