birth control
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July 31, 2024, 4:05 PM ET (AP)
North Carolina Medicaid recipients can obtain OTC birth control pills at pharmacies at no cost
birth control, the voluntary limiting of human reproduction, using such means as sexual abstinence, contraception, induced abortion, and surgical sterilization. It includes the spacing as well as the number of children in a family. Birth control encompasses the wide range of rational and irrational methods that have been used in the attempt to regulate fertility, as well as the response of individuals and of groups within society to the choices offered by such methods. It has been and remains controversial. English economist and demographer Thomas Malthus famously raised the general issue of population control in the 18th century with his ...(100 of 9726 words)