Family planning
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assistive reproductive technique, contraceptive, genetic counseling, human population study, reproduction, safe sex /sex abstinence, sex education, women's health
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Scope Note
programs or services designed to assist the family in controlling reproduction by either improving or diminishing fertility; planning intended to determine the number and spacing of one's children through birth control or methods which promote reproduction.
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Facts
- The conscious effort of couples to regulate the number and spacing of births through artificial and natural methods of contraception.
- SH&FPA believes that knowledge and freedom of choice in family planning is a basic human right.
- Natural family planning is a type of birth control that is approved by many religions.
- The Two-Day Method of natural family planning is based on the identification of the fertile days by monitoring the presence or absence of cervical secretions during the menstrual cycle.
- Family planning also includes efforts of couples to induce pregnancy.
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