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Birth Control
Practices employed by couples that permit sexual intercourse with reduced likelihood of conception and birth. The term birth control is often used synonymously with such terms as contraception, fertility control, and family planning. But birth control includes abortion to prevent a birth, whereas family planning methods explicitly do not include abortion.

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All terms and definitions, except where noted, are excerpted with permission from the Population Reference Bureau's International Population Handbook, by Arthur Haupt and Thomas Kane, 4th Edition, 1998.