U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence undermines access to contraception by permitting individuals, institutions, and even corporations to claim religious objections to ensuring contraceptive insurance coverage, thus imposing those beliefs on non-adherents and jeopardizing their access to essential reproductive-health services. This jurisprudence is not only harmful but also runs contrary to the law...

The United States has the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy of any Western industrialized country. Addressing these high rates and preventing adolescent pregnancy are complicated tasks. This article addresses some of the issues involved with preventing adolescent pregnancy, focusing on contraception.

Research exploring the development of the birth control movement in Britain continues to reveal new insights. Local case studies highlight the contentious nature of birth control debates and the significant obstacles that had to be overcome before services could be provided. Moving away from a focus on the activities of birth control campaigners and organisations, such as the Family Planning As...

The Clinica Para Madres (Mother?s Clinic) opened in Tucson, Arizona, in December of 1934 as the first birth control [3] clinic in Arizona. After moving to Tucson, birth control [3] activist Margaret Sanger, along with a group of local philanthropic women, founded the clinic to provide Arizona women with contraception [4]. During the early 1900s in the US, contraception [4] was illegal under the...

The authors review Pakistan's population program, with a focus on the ideal mix of contraceptive methods needed to slow population growth. "Our objective in this exercise is to estimate the extent of services required to achieve a certain level of the Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) necessary to bring fertility down to a level desired by women." Comparison is made between single- and multi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of adulthood obesity on work ability in early midlife during a 15-year follow-up. METHODS The study population included men and women (n = 5470), born in northern Finland in 1966. Participants evaluated their current perceived work ability compared with their lifetime best at the age of 46. Participants' weight and height were measured at 31 years and self-...

After publication of the original article [1], it came to the authors' attention that there is a typo in the Results section.

This report presents data on women who used organized family planning clinics in the United States during 1980. The data focus on the socioeconomic characteristics, pregnancy history, and contraceptive methods of women patients. COPYRIGHT INFORMATION All material appearing in this report is in the public domain and may be reproduced or copied without permission: citation as to source, however, ...