Medical indications for an abortion include risk to the mother or the possibility that the baby would be born with a handicap such as Down's syndrome, neural tube abnormalities such as spina bifida, or damage by rubella. Down's syndrome and spina bifida can usually be detected by a test called amniocentesis in the fourteenth to ...
The deliberate termination of pregnancy is a highly emotive subject, giving rise to fiercely held views both in favour of and against the operation. Those in favour of allowing legal abortion argue that since women always have and always will turn to abortion, then it should at least be obtainable in safe conditions. The high ...
The questionnaire which follows may help you to choose exactly which options you feel happy with. What if you have been using, or have used in the past, a method of birth control that you now see may have grieved God, or been wrong in his sight? It is very important not to blame ...
The search still continues for the perfect contraceptive. Some of the research is directed at developing totally new concepts in birth control, but any entirely new method would have to pass such stringent evaluations that it would be unlikely to be available widely before the end of the century. Much more of the research is ...
Some Christian couples choose to rely entirely on prayer to limit the size of their family. This can take two forms. One way is not to use any kind of contraception and simply to trust God that whatever children he gives are his will for that couple. The other way is to decide prayerfully how ...
Sterilization is permanent contraception. Part of the reproductive system of either the man or the woman is removed or blocked so that the normal meetings of sperm and ova are prevented. In modern history, sterilization has only been used as a method of contraception in recent years, but it was known in the ancient ...
Abortion is the interruption of the normal process of pregnancy, by the death of the foetus before the twenty-eighth week. This can happen spontaneously; in everyday language a spontaneous abortion is usually called a miscarriage. Abortion here is used to mean deliberate termination of a pregnancy. Methods Abortion is now legal in many ...
Postcoital methods of birth control are those that are applied after sex has taken place. These methods assume that conception has, or may have, occurred — in the case of abortion, of course, it definitely has. Many people feel that using post-coital pills, IUD or menstrual extraction 'avoids' the moral dilemma of facing an abortion ...
IUDs (intra-uterine devices, or coils, also known as IUCDS or intra-uterine contraceptive devices) are small pieces of plastic, or plastic and metal, which are worn inside the woman's uterus to protect against pregnancy. At first sight IUDS seem like ideal contraceptives. They can be worn for a long time, some even for many years, with ...
Rhythm methods are all based on the concept of avoiding sex during the most fertile part of a woman's monthly cycle. The original (calendar) method of birth control has been around for many years, and was pioneered to a large extent by the famous Marie Stopes. Unfortunately the contemporary understanding of the timing of the ...