Sentences with phrase «in modern contraception»

In much of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, there is little demonstrated interest in modern contraception, but considerable concern about infertility.

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The ban on contraception was put in by Paul VI in the 60s without real thought about modern times.

The large divergence of episcopal opinion revealed (concerning the modern relevance of church teaching, for instance on contraception) is never reflected in the directives of our national Conference of Bishops.

By World Bank estimates, 56 percent of the married women of reproductive age in Japan in 1989 used modern methods of contraception (pill, IUD, diaphragm, sterilization, etc.).

Their method of computing «unmet need» is, typically, to measure by sample questionnaire the fraction of married women in various societies who say they are not using modern means of contraception and also say that they want no more children, or that they wish to delay the birth of their next child.

While the Special Commission convened by Pope Paul VI to look at the question of contraception in the modern world was not directed to consider whether the Church should or could change its teaching, the Commission decided on its own to take up that question and sent reports to the Holy Father that advocated that the Church permit married couples to use contraception.

More than 200 million women in developing countries are sexually active without effective modern contraception even though they do not want to be pregnant anytime soon, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research group.

[Saverio Bellizzi et al, Underuse of modern methods of contraception: underlying causes and consequent undesired pregnancies in 35 low - and middle - income countries] Unwanted pregnancy has a wide range of serious consequences.

In fact, Iran became a pioneer — the only country to require couples to take a class on modern contraception before receiving a marriage license.

In Africa and Asia, younger adolescents aged 15 — 17 have higher unmet need for modern contraception than do older adolescents aged 18 — 19, suggesting greater barriers to use among younger women; in Latin America and the Caribbean, these proportions are about the samIn Africa and Asia, younger adolescents aged 15 — 17 have higher unmet need for modern contraception than do older adolescents aged 18 — 19, suggesting greater barriers to use among younger women; in Latin America and the Caribbean, these proportions are about the samin Latin America and the Caribbean, these proportions are about the same.

This news came from a study that examined the medical records of nearly 1.8 million Danish women — and the huge sample size lent heft to the findings, several of which stood in stark contradiction to commonly held beliefs about modern hormonal contraception.