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Birth control
Title: Birth control
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1459 | Pages: 6.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Birth control
Birth Control is defined as various ways used to prevent pregnancy from occurring. Birth Control has been a concern for humans for thousands of years. The first contraception devices were mechanical barriers in the vagina that prevented the male sperm from fertilizing the female egg. Other methods of birth control that were used in the vagina were sea sponges, mixtures of crocodile dung and honey, quinine, rock salt and alum. We have come a long …showed first 75 words of 1459 total…
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Nearly half of America's 6 million annual pregnancies are accidental. Unintended pregnancies result in 1.4 million abortions annually, as well as 1.1 million births that women either did not want to have until later or did not want at all. Eighty percent of teen pregnancies are unintended, and each year, one in nine young women aged 15-19 become pregnant; more than half become mothers. With knowledge of these contraceptive the numbers of unintended pregnancies will go down.
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