Statistics obtained from a national sample of visits to organized family planning clinics are presented for women under age 20 years. Patients are described in terms of social and demographic characteristics in relation to pregnancy history, contraceptive use before and after the visit, and types of medical services received. A comparison of the pregnancy history and contraceptive use of teenag...

Background: Unmet need for family planning (FP), which refers to the condition in which there is the desire to avoid or post-pone child bearing, without the use of any means of contraception, has been a core concept in the field of international population for more than three decades. The concept of unmet need points to the gap between these women’s reproductive intentions and contraceptive beh...

The Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) clinics are attended by women who need family planning advice, by women who need marriage guidance, or by infertile women. Usually the husband comes in with the wife. A gynecological examination of the woman and a Pap smear are done routinely. The pill has been the most frequently chosen contraceptive. For women who do not want to take the pill,...

Walker 256 carcinosarcoma cells, after twenty hours in isotonic saline suspension at room temperature, lose their ability to establish growths when transplanted to host rats of the same species. The element of infection may have been greater in this study than when the suspension is simply counted once and injected into a large group of animals, but the work does suggest the need for more accur...

This commentary on Potts et al provides a critical view on their thesis that increasing the level of education among women is likely to reduce terrorism. Presence of a strong family planning program enables women to control family size resulting in women’s public participation more likely and facilitating the emergence of small birth cohorts who are less likely to become unemployed. In spite of...