family planning
noun
: planning intended to determine the number and spacing of one's children through birth control
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Many factors could be contributing to the decision not to have a child, including socioeconomic circumstances, a maternal health care crisis, less access to family planning services, climate change concerns and a shaky economy.
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Jade Walker, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
Programs slated for elimination include Healthy Start, which is dedicated to healthy pregnancies and births, newborn screenings for heritable disorders and hearing, infant and early childhood mental health, childhood lead poisoning, family planning and drowning prevention.
—Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
The reinstated Trump version of the order expands the directive to include not just nongovernmental organizations that receive U.S. funding for family planning, but all NGOs that receive any U.S. health assistance.
—Joseph Lawler, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Feb. 2025
During the program’s first 15 years, its officers were involved in a wide swath of epidemiological investigations in areas including lead paint exposure, a cancer cluster’s connection to birth defects, family planning practices and famine relief.
—Casey Luc, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
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Jade Walker, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
Programs slated for elimination include Healthy Start, which is dedicated to healthy pregnancies and births, newborn screenings for heritable disorders and hearing, infant and early childhood mental health, childhood lead poisoning, family planning and drowning prevention.
—Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
The reinstated Trump version of the order expands the directive to include not just nongovernmental organizations that receive U.S. funding for family planning, but all NGOs that receive any U.S. health assistance.
—Joseph Lawler, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Feb. 2025
During the program’s first 15 years, its officers were involved in a wide swath of epidemiological investigations in areas including lead paint exposure, a cancer cluster’s connection to birth defects, family planning practices and famine relief.
—Casey Luc, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Family planning.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/family%20planning. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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family planning
noun
: planning intended to determine the number and spacing of one's children through effective methods of birth control
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