Birth control

Birth control

The practice of using artificial means to prevent or terminate a pregnancy.

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stem cell

Parenting; Birth control

One of the human body's master cells, with the ability to grow into any one of the body's more than 200 cell types.

sterilization

Parenting; Birth control

A procedure making a person permanently (usually) unable to reproduce.

stress

Parenting; Birth control

Forces from the outside world impinging on the individual. Stress is a normal part of life that can help us learn and grow. Conversely, stress can cause us significant problems.

personhood

Parenting; Birth control

The notion that life begins at fertilization. The definition of personhood can have a profound impact on birth control and planned parenthood by making the morning-after pill, the intrauterine ...

An FDA approved emergency contraceptive for use by women 17 or older. It contains a higher dose of levonorgestrel or female progestin hormone, the same ingredient found in many birth control pills. ...

last menstrual period

Parenting; Birth control

By convention, pregnancies are dated in weeks starting from the first day of a woman's last menstrual period (LMP). If her menstrual periods are regular and ovulation occurs on day 14 of her cycle, ...

life support

Parenting; Birth control

1. A therapy or device designed to preserve someone's life when an essential bodily system is not doing so. Life support may, for example, involve enteric feeding (by a tube), total parenteral ...