Article: The birth control pill at my age?(Letters from AFI Readers)
A Friend Indeed;  March 1, 2005 ;     334 words ......I am supposed to go on the birth control pill to regulate my period and to...uterus. I've never taken the birth control pill, and at 49 years of age, I...there are several options. The birth control pill is one of these options but...

Article: Birth control/weight-loss pill. (Expert Advice on Health and Fitness).(Yasmin new contraceptive seems to contribute to weight loss)(Brief Article)
Ebony;  December 1, 2002 ;     261 words ......can't seem to get under control. Even though I try to watch...the potential of a new birth control pill that apparently does a...weight. The interest in this birth control pill increased after a research...ingredient (unlike other birth control pills) that, ...

Article: birth control pill
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English;      9 words ...birth con·trol pill • n. a contraceptive pill.

Article: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BARRIERS TO BIRTH CONTROL USE AND ACTUAL BIRTH CONTROL USE AMONG MEXICAN-AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS.
Adolescence;  December 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......the relationship between barriers to using birth control and actual use of birth control among a national sample of Mexican-American...age). They responded to survey items on birth control use. Chi-square analysis and t tests were...

Article: Birth Control Movement
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ...BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENT BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENT. A birth control movement did not exist in the United States in the nineteenth century; still, the birth rate steadily declined from 1800. Women prevented conception by a number of different methods...

Article: Birth control: multiple meanings, continuing controversy.(The Encyclopedia of Birth Control)(Book Review)
The Journal of Sex Research;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...The Encyclopedia of Birth Control, Edited by Vern L. Bullough. Santa...society by examining Encyclopedia of Birth Control, edited by that persistently productive...fascinating topic. This book examines birth control from broad historical, social...

Article: The Birth Control Movement
American Decades;      301 words ...THE BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENT The Campaigner Women from...result of the effort of nurse and birth control advocate Margaret S ä nger...nationwide network of advice centers on birth control for women. She first had to find...

Article: Birth Control
Biology;      700+ words ...Birth Control Birth control refers to the practice of deliberately...conception. While there are many forms of birth control, they can be broadly classified as follows...ovulation, this particular method of birth control is frequently ineffective because of...vulva . It is ...

Article: Reproductive restraints; birth control in India, 1877-1947.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  March 1, 2008 ;     170 words ...9780252074806 Reproductive restraints; birth control in India, 1877-1947. Ahluwalia, Sanjam...particular focus on how elitist advocates of birth control, in seeking to rationalize procreation...early middle-class male advocates of birth control in colonial India; the interrelated...

Article: The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America.(Book Review)
The Historian;  September 22, 2004 ;     603 words ......Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America. By Linda Gordon...version of Woman's Body, Woman's Right: Birth Control in America. The book's new title, inspired...research since the early 1970s, that birth control is women's moral property (vii). ...

Article: birth control
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ......reproduction. Methods of Birth Control Male birth control methods include withdrawal...a frequently used birth control device. Contraceptive...fertilized egg. The birth control pill, an oral contraceptive...other problems. If birth control fails (or ...

Article: Poll: Most OK Birth Control for Schools
AP Online;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings...percent _ said they believe providing birth control reduces the number of teenage pregnancies...divided over whether sex education and birth control are more effective than stressing ...

Article: Birth control, culture and the control of women. (column)
Special Delivery;  June 22, 1991 ;     700+ words ...Birth Control, Culture and the Control of Women While...impassioned responses which the topic of birth control is engendering, many women are asking...What forces determine which methods of birth control get researched, funded and approved...

Article: Most Americans in AP poll favor public schools providing birth control, but qualms remain
AP Worldstream;  November 1, 2007 ;     681 words ......letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings...percent _ said they believe providing birth control reduces the number of teenage pregnancies...divided over whether sex education and birth control are more effective than stressing ...