• Abortion , including access to legal, safe procedures to end a pregnancy, is one reproductive right, but there are others. (webmd.com)
  • Reproductive rights are different in each state when it comes to access to abortion, birth control, and other reproductive health care treatments. (webmd.com)
  • Responding to pressure from the Vatican, the bishops had voted to revise the Directives in June 2001, putting sterilization on par with abortion and euthanasia as an "intrinsically immoral" service and banning the procedure at all Catholic and Catholic-affiliated hospitals. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Earlier this year, Chinese officials celebrated their population control and forced abortion efforts. (lifenews.com)
  • For these reasons, access to reproductive health care, including contraception and abortion services, is critical. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • It means that anyone, including a minor, could have a right to abortion, birth control, or other reproductive surgeries like the removal of healthy breasts. (dailysignal.com)
  • Our reproductive ability is controlled and manipulated - whether through forced abortion and sterilization, pressuring women to get pregnant, or forcing women's pregnancy through rape. (rapereliefshelter.bc.ca)
  • Ending forced sterilization and mobilizing to keep abortion safe, legal and accessible have rarely been more urgently needed. (charterforcompassion.org)
  • Earlier this year, anti-abortion activists posted videos that purported to show officials from the nonprofit organization - which provides reproductive health services, including abortion - trying to profit illegally from the sale of of aborted fetal tissue. (rutgers.edu)
  • Yet, conservative lawmakers proposed de-funding the nonprofit organization, which receives support from the federal government and some state governments for reproductive health services other than abortion. (rutgers.edu)
  • Birth Control, Sterilization and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), was based on research which, when shared with journalists, resulted in an apology by North Carolina's governor. (rutgers.edu)
  • Horatio Robinson Storer was a surgeon and anti-abortion activist in the 1800s who worked in the field of women's reproductive health and led the Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion in the US. (asu.edu)
  • Known for his oft-disputed role in the Roman Catholic Church's approach to the Nazis and World War II, Pope Pius XII also contributed a number of important documents regarding conception, fertility, abortion, and reproductive control to the Vatican's collection of writings and doctrine on procreation. (asu.edu)
  • The struggle for reproductive rights and justice are often associated with women's activisms of the past, specifically the activism of the late 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s, leading to the 1988 Supreme Court decision that fully decriminalized abortion in Canada. (activehistory.ca)
  • With several birth control options widely available, the decriminalization of abortion, and sex education required by provincial curricula, those downplaying the relevance of feminism argue that victory was achieved in the fight for reproductive rights. (activehistory.ca)
  • Today, we are witnessing important similarities with the 1970s in the social barriers to education about sex, birth control, and abortion. (activehistory.ca)
  • Specifically, with the moral panic around youth's sexuality, we have seen significant retrenchments in the adult control of sex, birth control, and abortion education. (activehistory.ca)
  • Therefore, this essay examines one contemporary and one historical case study of adults' attempts to control youth's sexuality via youth's access to sex education as well as birth control and abortion information. (activehistory.ca)
  • Birth control options and the presence of limited access to abortion services in urban Canada, however, does not mean that women have equal access to birth control or abortion. (activehistory.ca)
  • in fact, the existence of Therapeutic Abortion Committees (introduced under Trudeau's 1969 Omnibus legislation) restricted and controlled women's access to abortion. (activehistory.ca)
  • 5] Both cases illustrate attempts to dissolve existing reproductive rights, such as access to abortion. (activehistory.ca)
  • Therefore, the Chinese birth control policy of forced abortion and sterilization of Uyghurs is not a policy of ensuring the overall quality of the Uyghur population. (khilafah.com)
  • Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Emergency birth control can prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 to 120 hours after unprotected sex. (wikipedia.org)
  • While all forms of birth control can generally be used by young people, long-acting reversible birth control such as implants, IUDs, or vaginal rings are more successful in reducing rates of teenage pregnancy. (wikipedia.org)
  • About 222 million women who want to avoid pregnancy in developing countries are not using a modern birth control method. (wikipedia.org)
  • Birth control use in developing countries has decreased the number of deaths during or around the time of pregnancy by 40% (about 270,000 deaths prevented in 2008) and could prevent 70% if the full demand for birth control were met. (wikipedia.org)
  • While all methods of birth control have some potential adverse effects, the risk is less than that of pregnancy. (wikipedia.org)
  • It means you have the power of the law to protect you and allow you the right to make your own choices about birth control , pregnancy , and having children. (webmd.com)
  • If your rights are restricted, you may not be able to make your own decisions about pregnancy or birth control. (webmd.com)
  • TRICARE's coverage of pregnancy and reproductive health depends on the specific test, item, or service. (tricare.mil)
  • 1] Since people often spend most of their reproductive years managing their sexual and reproductive health by preventing and delaying pregnancy,[2] preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and managing menstrual cycles, contraceptive access is essential. (apha.org)
  • The Chinese Communist Party's eradication "process" reportedly involves massive persecution of Uygur Muslims in the Xinjiang region by detaining them in Nazi concentration camp-like facilities, forcing women to undergo sterilizations and forcing them to abort unborn babies through all nine months of pregnancy. (lifenews.com)
  • A natural fertility tracking that generates standardized information about women's reproductive health and enables couples to achieve or avoid pregnancy effectively. (popepaulvi.com)
  • Symptoms caused by fibroids, e.g., heavy bleeding, anemia, pain, increased size of the abdomen, and specific fertility and pregnancy complications, are major causes of morbidity in women in reproductive age. (hindawi.com)
  • ARC Fertility supports the use of birth control to prevent pregnancy or to regulate hormonal reactions and menstrual cycles. (arcfertility.com)
  • Reversible contraceptive devices are used as birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancy. (medicaldevice-network.com)
  • Practical tools and theoretical frameworks for understanding the fight for reproductive rights, from pregnancy to parenthood and beyond. (cbsd.com)
  • Historians credit Storer as being one of the first physicians to distinguish gynecology, the study of diseases affecting women and their reproductive health, as a separate subject from obstetrics, the study of pregnancy and childbirth. (asu.edu)
  • It consisted of total strangers coming to you in pure daylight and asking for sex, and I pointed out that the dangers of such casual hookups are quite different for women than men, given the greater levels of male sexual violence and given the possible risk of pregnancy (the study didn't control for whether the women asked were on the pill, for example). (blogspot.com)
  • From birth control through pregnancy and childbirth to menopause, our OB-GYNs help their patients with reproductive health care throughout their lives. (hawaiipacifichealth.org)
  • Our OB-GYNs treat an array of conditions, including infertility, menopause, hormonal disorders, sterilization or termination of pregnancy, reproductive-related cancers and incontinence. (hawaiipacifichealth.org)
  • Ectopic pregnancy is the result of a flaw in human reproductive physiology that allows the conceptus to implant and mature outside the endometrial cavity (see the image below), which ultimately ends in the death of the fetus. (medscape.com)
  • The NSFG is a nationally representative household survey that gathers in-depth information on pregnancy, infertility, and reproductive health. (cdc.gov)
  • In vitro (test tube) fertilization (IVF) Assisted reproductive technologies involve working with sperm and eggs or embryos in a laboratory (in vitro) with the goal of producing a pregnancy. (msdmanuals.com)
  • This report provides an overview of the unique reproductive health issues facing women with congenital heart defects (CHDs) and of the clinical care and professional guidelines on contraception, preconception care, and pregnancy for this population. (cdc.gov)
  • Physicians helped create and legitimise the pseudoscientific framework for the eugenics movement, which would implement forceful sterilisation as its tool of choice to eliminate undesirable traits that were thought to be biologically inherited and predominant among racial and ethnic minorities. (bmj.com)
  • In this project, I examine how literary depictions of current reproductive politics continue to be overshadowed by eugenics practices of sterilization, institutionalization, and other forms of reproductive control. (westga.edu)
  • In Sweden, a rudimentary form of genetic counselling can be tracked within the context of state-controlled eugenics, namely in some applications of the 1941 Sterilization Act. (lu.se)
  • This generation of geneticists clearly argued for individual reproductive autonomy, and against the state-controlled eugenics of the past. (lu.se)
  • During our study, we have been able to track some aspects of biological, or eugenic, citizenship throughout this period.In Sweden, a rudimentary form of genetic counselling can be tracked within the context of state-controlled eugenics, namely in some applications of the 1941 Sterilization Act. (lu.se)
  • Hysterectomy causes irreversible sterilization. (hindawi.com)
  • Female sterilizing operation (such as tubal sterilization and hysterectomy) 4. (cdc.gov)
  • Permanent sterilisation methods include hysterectomy, bilateral salpingectomy and bilateral oophorectomy. (who.int)
  • You might also hear this called reproductive autonomy. (webmd.com)
  • Instead, it praised China's oppressive population control measures for giving women greater "emancipation," "bodily autonomy," "gender equality" and "reproductive health. (lifenews.com)
  • Aggressive promotion of LARCs-or of any method-infringes on reproductive autonomy. (nwhn.org)
  • Birth control is a net gain for society, offering people more autonomy over their bodies and futures, and letting families grow at their desired rate. (arcfertility.com)
  • Together, they stand in the way of achieving reproductive justice , "the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities. (healthlaw.org)
  • The new technology also affected individual women and families, adding new facets to the development of biological/eugenic citizenship, individual autonomy and reproductive responsibility of the time. (lu.se)
  • 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. (wikipedia.org)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • In November 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released findings showing that compared with nonpregnant women, pregnant women were significantly more likely to be admitted to an ICU, receive invasive ventilation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and are at increased risk of death compared to nonpregnant women. (healthlaw.org)
  • I am Marcy Friedman, and I'm representing the Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity, COCA, with the Emergency Risk Communication Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • It describes Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) activities related to surveillance of reproductive health issues among females with CHDs. (cdc.gov)
  • It's not possible to understand present-day reproductive coercion, or its lasting impact on marginalized communities, without understanding the United States' long history of sterilization abuse. (nwhn.org)
  • The right to control one's own body and life, free from government, religious or economic coercion or physical violence, is a survival issue for people targeted by gender oppression as it intersects with racism and poverty. (charterforcompassion.org)
  • In women who are breastfeeding, progestin-only methods are preferred over combined oral birth control pills. (wikipedia.org)
  • In women who have reached menopause, it is recommended that birth control be continued for one year after the last menstrual period. (wikipedia.org)
  • Birth control increases economic growth because of fewer dependent children, more women participating in the workforce, and less use of scarce resources. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the past, some women, such as Black, lower-income, and Native American women, didn't have the same reproductive rights as other women. (webmd.com)
  • Even today, women on Medicaid or drug rehabilitation treatment programs may have limited birth control options. (webmd.com)
  • Reproductive rights don't just apply to women, but men and people of all genders. (webmd.com)
  • Even recently, there are reports of women in prison who were forced to have tubal ligation surgery, or sterilization. (webmd.com)
  • Women who are Black, Latina, or native American may be twice as likely to have sterilization as white women. (webmd.com)
  • Women who have Medicaid may be 1.4 times more likely to be offered sterilization as a birth control method than women with private insurance. (webmd.com)
  • It's unclear, but some studies show that doctors seem to offer different birth control options to women based on their race or insurance coverage. (webmd.com)
  • Fifteen organizations, including women's health, rights, and research groups, cited a review of 150 hospital mergers in the past decade that has identified at least 40 non-Catholic hospitals that had merged with Catholic hospitals and now face having to comply with the Directives and stop providing female sterilization to thousands of women, many of them poor. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Such a exception would also allow the millions of Catholic and non-Catholic women who choose sterilization each year to exercise their freedom of conscience at the hospital of their choice, in their community. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • As organizations dedicated to the health and well-being of women, we respectfully ask the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to reconsider its June 2001 decision to revise the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (" Directives ") as they relate to the provision of sterilization for women. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • We can also confirm that several of these hospitals, like Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley, CA, are the only hospitals providing sterilization services for women in the area. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Because male sterilization is intended to be irreversible, all men should be appropriately counseled about the permanency of sterilization and the availability of highly effective, long-acting, reversible methods of contraception for women. (cdc.gov)
  • By the end of the World War II , it was estimated that 40,000 sterilizations had taken place, mostly on poor white women. (encyclopedia.com)
  • For decades, China has aggressively instituted a population control program that has been responsible for killing hundreds of millions of babies in abortions and subjugating women to forced abortions and sterilizations. (lifenews.com)
  • Study shows that in the process of eradicating extremism, the minds of Uygur women in Xinjiang were emancipated and gender equality and reproductive health were promoted, making them no longer baby-making machines," the Chinese Embassy wrote on Twitter . (lifenews.com)
  • China touting a decline in births in Xinjiang where they are forcing women to have abortions and sterilizations based on their religion- and pretending it is making these women 'more confident and independent. (lifenews.com)
  • Forced sterilization may sound like a draconian tactic from the distant, prejudiced past, but for Indigenous women in the US and Canada, it is very much a reality. (bust.com)
  • In an article for Vice published last Monday, writer Ankita Rao reports that 100 Indigenous women filed a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government for forced sterilization which occurred as recently as 2018. (bust.com)
  • But the negative effects of the persistent lack of access to reproductive health care, to safe maternal care, and to contraception for Native women are just as real. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Three of those women, who had come to Standing Rock to offer reproductive health care to women at the resistance camp, spoke with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • about the birth of the baby, and why reproductive rights for Native women is important to the fight for their land. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • our reproductive rights as Native women have been taken away from us in so many ways. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Native women have suffered a history of horrific discrimination at the hands of white people, especially when it comes to their reproductive health and rights, including forced sterilization. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • In 2013, two years after emergency contraception became available over-the-counter to most women in the United States and relentless advocacy on the part of reproductive justice organizations, IHS finally mandated its own facilities to provide access to Plan B. Geographic isolation also contributes to challenges in accessing care. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • The recently reported cases of coerced sterilisation of women at a privately operated immigration detention facility in the USA are egregious in their disregard for human dignity and professional ethics, but sadly not surprising. (bmj.com)
  • These abuses represent a continuation of efforts to control the reproductive capacity of women, fueled by racist and xenophobic motives. (bmj.com)
  • Although state-endorsed forcible sterilisation programs have ended, incarcerated women have remained particularly vulnerable to sterilisation abuse. (bmj.com)
  • Greater dignity for women who will no longer be "bound" by their reproductive system. (adw.org)
  • Answer: An intrauterine device (IUD) is a great birth control option for some women. (nwhn.org)
  • However, through our 24-hour crisis line, we hear many of the ways that men access, control, and harm women and how women survive, escape, and resist. (rapereliefshelter.bc.ca)
  • Our sexuality is controlled and manipulated - whether by punishing women for not being virgins or by the promotion of pornography and BDSM as liberating expressions of women's sexuality. (rapereliefshelter.bc.ca)
  • She is a Chicana activist, longtime feminist and reproductive rights organizer with Radical Women. (charterforcompassion.org)
  • Your first book was about reproductive issues in general, for men and women. (rutgers.edu)
  • Radical Reproductive Justice assembles two decades' of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective, creators of the human rights-based "reproductive justice" framework to move beyond polarized pro-choice/pro-life debates. (cbsd.com)
  • At least 300,000 women were sterilized by "mobile sterilization teams" on a Chinese model, many under duress. (catholiclane.com)
  • PRI investigators found that the mobile sterilization teams were comprised of doctors and nurses who often had no previous training in obstetrics or gynecology, but were nevertheless sent out to the countryside to sterilize women at grotesquely misnamed "ligation festivals. (catholiclane.com)
  • Officials brought women to the sterilization sites by subjecting them to harassment, verbal abuse, and threats. (catholiclane.com)
  • Meanwhile, the radical feminists who control the Ministry of Women's Affairs ministry continue to draw their salaries while continuing to push poor Peruvian women into "Reproductive Health" programs that have nothing to do with reproduction and sometimes damage their health. (catholiclane.com)
  • Even today, some doctors privilege married women over single women when prescribing birth control (while others refuse to prescribe it at all). (activehistory.ca)
  • In recent weeks, mainstream media outlets, such as the UK's The Independent Newspaper, have published reports from Uyghur women, formerly detained in China's notorious concentration camps in East Turkestan, of Uyghur Muslim women being subjected to forced sterilization during detention. (khilafah.com)
  • She is involved in developing clinical guidance for healthcare providers caring for pregnant women and women of reproductive age with possible exposure to Zika virus. (cdc.gov)
  • One of the most important features of family planning is the use of birth control methods which allows families to plan the desired number of children and birth spacing for women of reproductive age. (who.int)
  • The need for family planning supplies and services is increasing throughout the Region in part because of the rise in the number of women of reproductive age and increasing use of modern contraceptives (14,15). (who.int)
  • Do social inequalities in Peruvian society legitimize policy of government that violates women and indigenous reproductive and human rights? (bvsalud.org)
  • Was the sterilization campaign part of a shared "common sense" among policymakers, physicians, nurses, and general population regarding the need to sterilized low-income and indigenous women? (bvsalud.org)
  • Work routines require each FVW to visit all currently married women of reproductive age of her area fortnightly and to attend meetings at the subcenter to report on progress. (who.int)
  • Fallopian tube reconstruction has been the traditional method of restoring reproductive function to women with tubal infertility. (medscape.com)
  • The procedure for women (often called tubal sterilization) is more complicated and may be done using a thin tube inserted through a small incision in the abdomen or done through a larger incision in the abdomen. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Permanent contraception for women is often called tubal sterilization, which also refers to a specific procedure, the so-called tying the tubes. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Family planning is lows families to plan the desired number of children and crucial for the health of women and their families, and birth spacing for women of reproductive age. (who.int)
  • Contraceptive use in the Region planning supplies and services is increasing throughout the Region in part because of the rise in the number of One of the ways to reduce maternal and infant mortality women of reproductive age and increasing use of modern and morbidity in a cost-effective manner is birth control. (who.int)
  • WOCBP in both arms should use highly effective birth control measures, during the study treatment period and for at least 6 months after the last dose of chemotherapy or date of surgery (except for women receiving chemotherapy with ifosfamide who should continue contraception until 1 year after last day of treatment). (who.int)
  • In the first stage, controlled descriptors were used, in Portuguese and English, associated with the OR and AND In 2019, the world population of women of reproductive operators: (family planning OR family planning programs) age (15 to 49 years) was estimated at 1.9 billion people. (bvsalud.org)
  • Coercive practices can manifest in a variety of ways and include but are not limited to forced sterilization, provider preference for some contraceptive methods over others, disregard for patient preferences, incentives for the uptake of specific methods, and policies that influence the ability to stop using a contraceptive method at will. (apha.org)
  • Both birth control implants and IUDs are LARCs, or Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives, meaning these methods last for an extended period of time, are highly effective, and work without user action, but cannot be controlled or terminated by the user. (nwhn.org)
  • Sterilization, or permanent birth control. (webmd.com)
  • Bayer has recently announced they will remove Essure from the market, but my doctor has just recommended Essure as permanent birth control since it will be available until the end of the year… what should I know? (nwhn.org)
  • While permanent sterilization certainly can end fertility, hormonal birth control temporarily suppresses reproductive functions so long as patients take it regularly. (arcfertility.com)
  • Permanent sterilization or participation in contraceptive studies is encouraged for surplus animals. (stlzoo.org)
  • Perhaps the grimmest of these myths is most commonly spread about birth control pills (IUDs and other implants have also faced accusations), leading some to believe these medications can cause cancer. (arcfertility.com)
  • Today, in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer (ET) bypass the fallopian tubes in the reproductive process and are additional options in the treatment of these patients. (medscape.com)
  • The fallopian tubes have critical functions in the reproductive process, including providing a conduit from the peritoneal cavity to the uterine cavity. (medscape.com)
  • Washington, DC -A coalition of leading women's health care advocates called today for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to revise their Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (Directives) and end their ban on voluntary female sterilization at Catholic and Catholic-affiliated hospitals. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • The revised Directives strictly limit the ability of non-Catholic hospitals that have merged with Catholic hospitals to provide voluntary female sterilization. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • The reproductive health devices market includes Endometrial Ablation devices, Female Sterilization devices, Reversible Contraceptive devices and Assisted Reproductive Technology devices. (medicaldevice-network.com)
  • Female sterilization : guidelines for the development of services. (who.int)
  • They endorsed policies, such as institutionalization and sterilization, designed to control reproductive behavior. (uoregon.edu)
  • reproductive technologies, and most surgical sterilization reversals aren't covered. (tricare.mil)
  • CDC's surveillance of surgical sterilization: objectives and methods of data collection. (cdc.gov)
  • The CrMS and NaProTechnology enable couples to reconnect love and life in the area of fertility regulation and in reproductive and gynecologic health. (popepaulvi.com)
  • The coalition offered to work with the USCCB to design a solution to preserve voluntary sterilization in all mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • Thirty one of the 97 participants were azoospermic, 21 due to voluntary sterilization, six identified in 1977 as the probable result of DBCP exposure, and four for unknown causes. (cdc.gov)
  • These last 59 years of artificial reproductive technology represents fertility control in areas on family planning and reproductive health. (popepaulvi.com)
  • On January 20, 2019, Int. No. 863-A ("Law"), which, among other things, prohibits employment discrimination based on an individual's sexual and reproductive health choices, became law following the New York City Council's approval of the measure last month. (ebglaw.com)
  • A variety of factors such as efficacy and safety of available methods, the animal's age, behavioral and social factors, the practicality of different delivery systems, and the individual's reproductive status must be considered when selecting an appropriate contraceptive method. (stlzoo.org)
  • Fewer than 1 woman out of 100 becomes pregnant in the first year after her male partner undergoes sterilization ( 14 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Whether you're currently pregnant, recently had a baby, are trying to conceive, or it's not the right time for you to have a baby, reproductive healthcare and coverage can be complicated. (bluekc.com)
  • Historically, the practice of forced sterilization has varied according to time and place. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Some people will believe these falsehoods but still practice contraception for practical reasons, while others will avoid birth control entirely because the untruths are too persuasive. (arcfertility.com)
  • It is a practice known as 'gene washing': a reproductive policy aimed at ethnic cleansing of the Uyghur Muslims. (khilafah.com)
  • Plans aren't required to cover drugs to induce abortions and services for male reproductive capacity, like vasectomies. (healthcare.gov)
  • Coercive interpersonal, institutional, and structural practices and policies contradicting human rights-based and person-centered approaches often impact contraceptive access and reproductive self-determination. (apha.org)
  • January 2010 and November 2020, whose titles and / or births were from teenage mothers,² despite the fact that, abstracts addressed the importance of Family Planning since 1997, Federal Law No. 9,263/97, whose objective was, in the lives of teenagers and were made available free of in addition to combating old illegal practices sterilization charge and online. (bvsalud.org)
  • Since 1977, U.S. federal law has given minors the right to get birth control without parental consent. (webmd.com)
  • A prospective reproductive health surveillance program of semen quality among workers in a chemical facility that until late 1977 had produced 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (96128) (DBCP), was conducted from November 1981 to October 1985. (cdc.gov)
  • This argument that we live in a "post feminist society" stems from a lack of understanding, or misunderstanding, of feminism and reproductive rights. (activehistory.ca)
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends long acting reversible birth control as first line for young individuals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Olohan urged Planned Parenthood and other so-called women's "reproductive rights" groups to condemn the "insanity. (lifenews.com)
  • Johanna Schoen, associate professor of history in the School of Arts and Sciences , sees the controversy over Planned Parenthood as the latest episode in the long-running battle over access to reproductive health in the United States - a battle she's been studying since her graduate school days at the University of North Carolina . (rutgers.edu)
  • Reproductive rights matter because they give all people access to safe reproductive health care . (webmd.com)
  • Reproductive rights advocates work to pass laws that allow equal access to all of these health care services for people of all genders, races, ethnicities, religious beliefs, income levels, and legal status -- including those who are in prison or are undocumented immigrants. (webmd.com)
  • Contraception is a critical component of sexual and reproductive health equity and well-being that includes the range of methods and associated health care that assist individuals in achieving their reproductive desires. (apha.org)
  • Contraceptive use can improve health outcomes and reduce health and health care disparities, including reducing the risk of developing certain reproductive cancers,[3] preventing STIs,[4] and treating medical conditions. (apha.org)
  • The Saint Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction was founded in 1985 to answer the call for reproductive health care that fully respects life. (popepaulvi.com)
  • Rather, it focuses on protecting employees from discrimination based on their sexual and reproductive health choices. (ebglaw.com)
  • Sexual and reproductive health. (bvsalud.org)
  • No studies show that birth control pills impact body weight . (arcfertility.com)
  • Rather than endanger patients' lives, birth control pills protect users from more than just unwanted pregnancies. (arcfertility.com)
  • 1. Birth control pills 2. (cdc.gov)
  • A review by Catholics for a Free Choice of the approximately 150 hospital mergers in the past decade has identified 40 such situations in which sterilization services were preserved but are now jeopardized by the revised Directives . (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • 4] Limited or devolving funding of reproductive health services, and limited or absent sex education were, and remain, obstacles Canadians faced even after securing legal victories. (activehistory.ca)
  • Today, the funding of, and access to, reproductive health services remains a significant concern for those of us who believe in equal access for all. (activehistory.ca)
  • Fifteen years ago, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, with the strong encouragement of the Clinton administration, ordered a nationwide sterilization campaign. (catholiclane.com)
  • The Peruvian state prosecutor Marco Guzman dropped the charges last Friday, because he was not convinced that the enforced sterilizations were "widespread or systemic. (catholiclane.com)
  • The case can certainly be made that the Peruvian sterilization campaign was genocidal, since it pitted the 'haves'-the largely urban descendants of Francisco Pizarro's conquistadores -against the 'have-nots'-the largely rural descendants of the ancient Incas. (catholiclane.com)
  • I will discuss the following questions: how is Fujimori's sterilization campaign contextualized within the Peruvian structural inequalities? (bvsalud.org)
  • Although the fight is not over, the pause allows us to turn our attention to another crisis affecting Native people, one directly connected to the fight for their land and water: Native women's access to reproductive health and rights. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Solving these inequities are key aspects of the fight for full reproductive justice. (charterforcompassion.org)
  • Jasmyne Bryant (She/They/Jas) is a Birth Justice organizer at Surge Reproductive Justice and a practicing doula who moves with an ethic of care. (charterforcompassion.org)
  • Jasmyne is an organizer around reproductive justice and is also a full spectrum doula offering birth, postpartum, sibling, and sleep support. (charterforcompassion.org)
  • Expanding the social justice discourse surrounding "reproductive rights" to include issues of environmental justice, incarceration, poverty, disability, and more, this crucial anthology explores the practical applications for activist thought on this ever-urgent issue. (cbsd.com)
  • This is based on the premise that we have achieved reproductive justice. (activehistory.ca)
  • While I use contemporary examples to illuminate a current need for reproductive rights and justice on a national scale, my research focuses on the history of reproductive rights activism in Southern Alberta during the 1960s and 1970s. (activehistory.ca)
  • Reproductive Justice in Canada? (activehistory.ca)
  • In the last three years alone, the need for reproductive justice in Canada has intensified. (activehistory.ca)
  • One of the most important features of fam- contraception in the Region are the pill (10.5%) and ily planning is the use of birth control methods which al- intrauterine device (9.5%) ( 14 ). (who.int)
  • The Saint Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction is committed to building a culture of life in women's reproductive healthcare. (popepaulvi.com)
  • This blog post will explain what you should know about coverage for reproductive healthcare, as well as common misconceptions about reproductive health and insurance. (bluekc.com)
  • These functions are partly regulated by the cyclical hormones of the reproductive cycle. (medscape.com)
  • Birth control has been used since ancient times, but effective and safe methods of birth control only became available in the 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Less effective methods include physical barriers such as condoms, diaphragms and birth control sponges and fertility awareness methods. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other methods of birth control do not protect against sexually transmitted diseases. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some methods of birth control can be started immediately following the birth, while others require a delay of up to six months. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since the Affordable Care Act went into effect in 2014, all health insurers must now cover FDA-approved birth control methods and counseling at no cost in all 50 states. (webmd.com)
  • His 1968 encyclical 'Humanae Vitae' spoke to the regulation of birth through various methods of contraception and sterilization. (asu.edu)
  • Between 1949 and 1960, for example, of the 104 surgical sterilizations performed in South Carolina mental hospitals, all but two were performed on blacks. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The artificial reproductive technologies were introduced with the birth control pill in 1960. (popepaulvi.com)
  • Since 1974, we've kept close tabs on all things related to religious and reproductive freedom. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1974. (activehistory.ca)
  • Semen contains sperm, the cells made in the male reproductive system that include the genetic material needed to make a baby. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Artificial reproductive technologies are now considered the only option for couples with reproductive and gynecological health problems and concerns. (popepaulvi.com)
  • The standard deviations of the measured values for an individual were higher than in ejaculates from fertile artificial insemination donors, probably because of less well controlled collection conditions in the workplace setting. (cdc.gov)
  • The paper will analyze the discourses regarding sterilization and reproduction of political and Catholic religious leaders, national and international media and conservative and "progressive" individuals in two different political scenarios: the Fujimori government and the current Toledo democratic regimen. (bvsalud.org)
  • In September, reports emerged that numerous im/migrants at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia (Irwin) were sterilized without their consent-horrific reproductive injustices that violate fundamental human rights. (healthlaw.org)