family planning services

Birth control access

Family planning services are healthcare programs that help individuals and couples control whether and when to have children.

These services typically include contraception, fertility counseling, pregnancy testing, and reproductive health education.

The term is sometimes used as a neutral alternative to more politically charged language around abortion and birth control: The clinic offers family planning services to low-income patients.

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spermicides · genetic counseling · sterilization · IUD · health clinic · women's health · fertility clinics · birth spacing · public health campaigns · emergency contraception · morning after pill · prenatal vitamins · pregnancy test · sex education · safe sex · abstinence only · teen pregnancy · vasectomy

Opposites
reproductive goal

family planning servicesfertility treatment

Medical help conceiving

assisted reproduction · IVF · in vitro fertilization · fertility clinic · infertility treatment

institutional approach to reproduction

family planning servicesforced sterilization

Involuntary surgical infertility

one-child policy · breeding programs

intervention vs. non-intervention

family planning servicesnatural family planning

Contraception via cycle observation

letting nature take its course

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