contraception
IPA: kɑntrʌsˈɛpʃʌn
noun
- The use of a device or procedure to prevent conception as a result of sexual activity.
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Examples of "contraception" in Sentences
- The school is prohibited from distributing contraception.
- I fight for the right to abortion, the right to contraception.
- I fight for the right to abortion and the right to contraception.
- Contraception covers the means and methods to prevent conception.
- It is not the first line contraception for the nulliparous teenager.
- But the law incorporated the same cautions concerning contraception.
- 2:Note: NationMaster uses the term contraception to include both modern and traditional methods.
- I agree that his book on the history of contraception is good but his latest on the Church and slavery misses the mark.
- The Catholic Church has a problem with the word "contraception" too, even though the vast majority of Catholic people in the United States use contraceptives to help them avoid unwanted pregnancies.
- If she would say: contraception is a sin, and abstinance is not .... then it would make sense, but she always couches it in language of the unity of the couple -- and that sex is for bonding and condoms prevent bonding.
- Zeroing in on the word "contraception," many commentators have taken delight in pointing to surveys about the use of contraceptives among Catholics, the message being that any infringement of religious freedom involves an idiosyncratic position that doesn't affect that many people.
- He should know full well the Church does not "condemn those of different religious view" with some damning and wholesale wave of the hand, but instead argues that contraception is objectively evil, which means those using contraceptives may or may not be culpable for their actions, depending on what they know and so forth.
- While I support the promotion of contraceptive pills, and think that having reliable means of chemical contraception is an important tool for allowing people to regulate their family size and for avoiding the societal and environmental dangers of overpopulation, I would be very leery of talk about ‘reproductive autonomy’ as some sort or absolute right, for men or women, because of what it carries in its train.