Sentences with phrase «use modern contraception»

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Modern contraception is, however, a much more pleasant alternative, and, used properly, can be more effective than the traditional methods of birth control (such as coitus interruptus, the rhythm method, or the local contraceptive potion).

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.

Indeed, when it comes to family planning and unrestricted access to modern contraception (and the unhindered agency to use a preferred method of contraception), things like misinformation about side - effects, lack of knowledge about the benefits of small family - size, and religious or male opposition to contraception form a sort of scaffolding that keep fertility rates higher than they would otherwise be.

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 same.

Yet 23 million of these adolescents have an unmet need for modern contraception: they are sexually active and want to avoid having a baby within the next two years but are not using modern contraceptives.