personal circumstance, reason, and choice. This article will discuss various views on birth control of the major world religions Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism...

Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent pregnancy. Birth control...

The history of birth control, also known as contraception and fertility control, refers to the methods or devices that have been historically used to prevent...

Orthodoxy and Protestantism (including leading Protestant reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin)—generally held a critical perspective of birth control (also...

Mormon, and Pagan perspectives in addition to Catholic, Evangelical, Protestant, and Jewish perspectives. "People of All Religions Use Birth Control and Have...

birth rates. The study of religion comprises a wide variety of academic disciplines, including theology, philosophy of religion, comparative religion...

of any birth control as sinful, to allowing it in the present day. LDS leaders regularly spoke out against birth control into the 1970s, and gradually...

highest maternal, infant, and child mortality rates; and highest fertility rates. Approximately 30% of all women use birth control, although over half of...

The birth control movement in the United States was a social reform campaign beginning in 1914 that aimed to increase the availability of contraception...

Birth control in the United States is available in many forms. Some of the forms available at drugstores and some retail stores are male condoms, female...

Americans', access and use of birth control are central to many social, political, cultural and economic issues in the United States. Birth control policies in...

and policies to reduce the crude birth rate are known as anti-natalist policies. Non-coercive measures such as improved information on birth control and...

and reproductive health education, such as birth control and safe sex. In contrast, comprehensive sex education covers the use of birth control and sexual...

American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in...

birthday cards, a birthday party, or a rite of passage. Many religions celebrate the birth of their founders or religious figures with special holidays...

more frequently in cultures based in polytheism, animism, or shamanism. Religion and magic became conceptually separated in the West where the distinction...

will surpass Judaism to become the second largest religion in the US due to higher immigration and birth rates. The United States government does not collect...

Abrahamic religions are a grouping of three major religions that revere Abraham in their scripture: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The religions share...

areas of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Southern United States. They derive from traditional African religions with some influence from other religious...

Religion in China is diverse and most Chinese people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview...

or humanity, a source of immoral acts or customs, and a political tool for social control. Religion is a modern Western concept that developed from the...

Miraculous births are a common theme in mythological, religious and legendary narratives and traditions. They often include conceptions by miraculous...

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Silent birth, sometimes known as quiet birth, is a birthing procedure advised by L. Ron Hubbard and advocated by Scientologists in which "everyone attending...

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saw rapid population growth as an obstacle to development, and their interest in birth control revived. In the early 1960s, schemes somewhat more muted...

Religion in Japan is manifested primarily in Shinto and in Buddhism, the two main faiths, which Japanese people often practice simultaneously. According...

are low, birth control is understood and easily accessible, and costs are often deemed very high because of education, clothing, feeding, and social amenities...

Psychology of religion consists of the application of psychological methods and interpretive frameworks to the diverse contents of religious traditions...

from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that in 2007, a substantial proportion of births in the U.S. and in several European nations...