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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States,...

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...

traditions such as Laestadian Lutheran Churches, do not permit the use of birth control and may teach Quiverfull doctrine, which holds that Christians should...

that exists without birth control or other medical interventions. The control is the number of children birthed to the parents and is modified as the number...

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...

employees of privately held corporations that do not wish to provide birth control. The ruling is considered to be part of the political controversy regarding...

existence. Religion portal Human sexuality portal Christianity and homosexuality Christianity and sexual orientation Christian views on birth control Erotic...

encourages procreation, abstaining from all forms of birth control, natural family planning, and sterilization reversal. The movement derives its name...

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

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

religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. The population pyramid of Greenland was highly impacted by a birth control program conducted by...

Christianity, and Islam. The religions share doctrinal, historical, and geographic overlap that contrasts them with Indian religions, Iranian religions, and East...

religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent. These religions,...

The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas...

culture, Pan-grave culture and Ancient Egyptian religion. By the Middle Kingdom, Nubians had greater control over their territory and some integrated into Egyptian...

intersections of morality and religion involve the relationship between religious views and morals. It is common for religions to have value frameworks...