April 28, 2022
16,048 words (~80 minutes)
Tags:
original research
birth control
contraception
NSFG
third-person
This original research article reports on statistical analysis of the public use data files of the 2017-2019 National Survey of Family Growth about such topics as the number of persons using and not using contraception in the United States, the contraceptive methods being used, and motives for using or discontinuing various contraceptive methods. Unlike prior works, it reports results for male persons in addition to and alongside results for female persons.
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November 11, 2018
12,852 words (~64 minutes)
Tags:
history
birth control
contraception
abortion
third-person
Margaret Sanger, pioneer of birth control in the United States and founder of the organizations that became Planned Parenthood, felt that abortion is “taking life,” excluded abortion from her birth control movement, and had the explicit goal of ending the use of abortion as a method of family limitation. This causes her legacy to conflict with the false dichotomy surrounding abortion today, both with the so-called “pro-life” movement that vilifies her and with the so-called “pro-choice” movement that exalts her.
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