What is "contraception"

Usage examples of "contraception".

Thus it was that Victor and his friends had read a motley bevy of authors from John Stuart Mill to Herbert Spencer and acquired a knowledge of everything from libertarianism to contraception which would be inconceivable for an Etonian or Harrovian of the times.

For example, among the American Hutterites, a strict religious community that is well nourished and opposed to contraception, women produce babies as fast as is biologically possible for humans, with a mean interval of only two years between births, and a mean final number of eleven children.

Reasons for nonuse of contraception by sexually active women aged 15-19.

I never read the proclamations of generals before battle, the speeches of fuehrers and prime ministers, the solidarity songs of public schools and left-wing political parties, national anthems, Temperance tracts, papal encyclicals and sermons against gambling and contraception, without seeming to hear in the background a chorus of raspberries from all the millions of common men to whom these high sentiments make no appeal.

It will also take widely available and acceptable contraception, significant steps toward political equality of women, and improvements in the standards of living of the poorest people.

Examples: getting state aid for having a child, escaping a dysfunctional family of origin by getting pregnant, trying to find someone to love by having a baby, knowing a happily married teenager but knowing little about the difficult experiences of an unwanted pregnancy, believing birth control is racial genocide, assuming that all a woman can do is raise babies, assuming your buddies can tell you everything you need to know about sex and contraception, having intercourse for months before going to a birth control clinic, being unable to talk with our partner about sex and birth control, having little interaction with our parents about sex, assuming wrongly that you aren't going to have sex so there is no need to prepare, having low self-esteem and low self-control, overlooking the pleasures and gratitude of your partner when you use contraceptives, etc.

Emergency Contraception Hotline for local physicians who will prescribe the pill.

Consider using your physician but not all physicians will prescribe the drug, so if you need to find a cooperative local doctor you may go to the Web site or call the national Emergency Contraception Hotline at 1-888-NOT-2-LATE.

Note: Contraception will be discussed in more detail in the next page below.

The doctor hated the roots of superstition in himself which refused to wither, just as he hated the superstitions of his patients which caused them to lay filthy and tetanus-conveying relics on their sores, and to practise contraception by means of a small scrap of cloth pasted over the navels of their women during intercourse.

People in those days went through a lot of firstborns: there weren't other forms of contraception.

One day the topic was Full-World Business Opportunities, and Art began to see why he and his six fellows might have been chosen to attend: Amy and George worked in contraception, Sam and Max in industrial design, Sally and Elizabeth in agricultural technology, and he himself in resource recovery.

First of all, you have to have natural childbirth and no contraception.

She was expelled for writing to the Pope, explaining to him why the rhythm method of contraception, for a lot of girls, just didn't work.