Birth Control

Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is a method or device used to prevent pregnancy. Birth control has been used since ancient times, but effective and safe methods of birth control only became available in the 20th century. Planning, making available, and using birth control is called family planning. Some cultures limit or discourage access to birth control because they consider it to be morally, religiously, or politically undesirable.The World Health Organization and United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide guidance on the safety of birth control methods among women with specific medical conditions. …

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National Association of Women and the Law · 28 March 2024 English

narrative, including the forced sterilization of Indigenous people, and the covert prescription of birth control to Indigenous women before it was legalized in Canada, for the purposes of population control

Indigenous people, and the covert prescription of birth control to Indigenous women before it was legalized sterilization and the illegal prescription of birth control, FBE is a reproductive justice issue that stifles


C.D. Howe Institute · 15 March 2024 English

The legislation allows for transfers to provinces and territories to “provide universal, single-payer, first-dollar coverage,” but only for diabetes and contraceptive prescriptions – there is no such requirement for other …

can cover everything. Diabetes management and birth control are obviously both important, but are they more


CHRC: Canadian Human Rights Commission · 22 February 2024 English

3 Pregnancy and Human Rights In the Workplace – A Guide for Employers What actions could be considered pregnancy-related discrimination? The following actions could be considered pregnancy-related discrimination: • Refusing …

candidates about plans to have children, use of birth control, or pregnancy. You can ask if the candidate


DDN: Dundurn Press · 13 February 2024 English

His wife died before their second son turned one. How can he keep her memory alive when there’s so much he wants to forget?There was a time before his wife …

steps, I asked her, “How much is left on your birth control prescription?” “About two weeks.” “Okay,” I


CBCN: Canadian Breast Cancer Network · 6 February 2024 English

BREAST CANCER AND YOU 1 A guide for people living with breast cancer | Seventh Edition BREAST CANCER AND YOU A guide for people living with breast cancer | Seventh …

develop breast cancer. Birth control pills cause Taking some forms of birth control (which includes estrogen increase decreases 10 years after the use of birth control has been stopped.22 BREAST CANCER AND YOU BREAST treated over 5 years—about the same risk as with birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy.116 Your of pulmonary embolism or stroke when on the birth control pill.116 Keep in mind that when tamoxifen is Society. The benefits and risks of hormonal birth control. Available at: https://www.cancer.ca/ en/pr


INSPQ: Institut national de santé publique du Québec · 30 January 2024 English

For others, are often referred to as “membranes.” The membrane the pain is centred in the lower back and spreads to the envelops your baby and holds the amniotic fluid …

blues260 Depression 262 Sexuality after birth 264 Birth control 265 240 Delivery François-Xavier Delorme Your preferences. 264 Delivery The first few days Birth control To be effective, LAM requires the following pregnancy, start thinking about what kind of birth control you will use after the baby arrives. • Y ou delayed. To use breastfeeding (lactation) as a birth control method, you have to understand the principle of birth The table on page 267 describes the birth control control (e.g., Billings or symptothermal), it’s


Wilson Center Canada · 30 October 2023 English

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of women to the fight for democracy in greater China, with a particular focus on Hong Kong’s democracy movement of …

Rodriguez. Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021 (Cambridge: Cambridge


Wilson Center Canada · 27 October 2023 English

In a moment where bilateral regulatory mistrust threatens to dismantle many of the financial ties built-up over the last three decades, understanding the mindset of the Chinese regulator becomes all …

Rodriguez. Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021 (Cambridge: Cambridge


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 24 October 2023 English

Dans The Top Ten Diseases of All Time, Stacey Smith? présente les dix maladies les plus meurtrières et leurs effets sur la société, fournissant une mine d’informations sur la trajectoire …

revolution of the 1960s, even more than the birth control pill.19 Figure 0.2. Fleming’s accidentally


ARCC: Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada · 18 September 2023

President / Présidente, ARCC-CDAC paigemason15@live.com 204-492-0840 (she/her) Access Manitoba Free Birth Control A. [...] Lowik, Vancouver Vice-President / Vice-Président/e, ARCC-CDAC Expertise in gender- and


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