Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities

A recent article in GHSP calls for classifying fertility awareness methods as “modern contraceptives” despite their inferiority. We believe in a rights-based approach, which considers the real-world conditions that many women face, including constrained sexual agency and low baseline reproductive he...

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Autores principales: Austad, Kirsten, Chary, Anita, Colom, Alejandra, Barillas, Rodrigo, Luna, Danessa, Menjívar, Cecilia, Metz, Brent, Petrocy, Amy, Ruch, Anne, Rohloff, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2016
Materias:
Taking Exception
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27353626
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00044
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author Austad, Kirsten
Chary, Anita
Colom, Alejandra
Barillas, Rodrigo
Luna, Danessa
Menjívar, Cecilia
Metz, Brent
Petrocy, Amy
Ruch, Anne
Rohloff, Peter
author_facet Austad, Kirsten
Chary, Anita
Colom, Alejandra
Barillas, Rodrigo
Luna, Danessa
Menjívar, Cecilia
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description A recent article in GHSP calls for classifying fertility awareness methods as “modern contraceptives” despite their inferiority. We believe in a rights-based approach, which considers the real-world conditions that many women face, including constrained sexual agency and low baseline reproductive health literacy. We must demonstrate true commitment to increasing access to the most effective and reliable contraceptive methods.
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spelling pubmed-49822572016-08-17 Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities Austad, Kirsten Chary, Anita Colom, Alejandra Barillas, Rodrigo Luna, Danessa Menjívar, Cecilia Metz, Brent Petrocy, Amy Ruch, Anne Rohloff, Peter Glob Health Sci Pract Taking Exception A recent article in GHSP calls for classifying fertility awareness methods as “modern contraceptives” despite their inferiority. We believe in a rights-based approach, which considers the real-world conditions that many women face, including constrained sexual agency and low baseline reproductive health literacy. We must demonstrate true commitment to increasing access to the most effective and reliable contraceptive methods. Global Health: Science and Practice 2016-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4982257/ /pubmed/27353626 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00044 Text en © Austad et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00044.
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Austad, Kirsten
Chary, Anita
Colom, Alejandra
Barillas, Rodrigo
Luna, Danessa
Menjívar, Cecilia
Metz, Brent
Petrocy, Amy
Ruch, Anne
Rohloff, Peter
Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities
title Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities
title_full Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities
title_fullStr Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities
title_full_unstemmed Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities
title_short Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities
title_sort fertility awareness methods are not modern contraceptives: defining contraception to reflect our priorities
topic Taking Exception
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27353626
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00044
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