How to Use birth control in a Sentence

birth control

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  • What would be the safest way for someone my age to get birth control?
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The mother called and asked if her daughter should go on birth control.
    — Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
  • That said though, it shouldn’t be used as daily birth control.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Read More Once the over-the-counter birth control pill is available, what about cost and coverage?
    — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 19 July 2023
  • Cramping is the main birth control side effect for IUD users.
    — Heather Viggiani, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Much of the change was attributed to wider knowledge of long-lasting birth control, like the IUD.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 1 June 2023
  • The same is true for people who have just come off of hormonal birth control.
    — Lindsay Modglin, Health, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Meanwhile, there are other forms of male birth control in the pipeline.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • How Puerto Rican women were used to test the birth control pill.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The invention of the birth control pill, and women are crying out for it on this planet.
    — Samantha Barry, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The new year is set to see a slew of new laws enacted across the country that expand access to birth control.
    — Ellen Connelly Taaffe, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Most Iowans support offering birth control pills over the counter, a new poll shows.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Losing fistfuls of hair might happen while the body adjusts to the hormones in birth control pills.
    — Christin Perry, Parents, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But this is the first birth control pill that has been approved for use without a prescription from a health care provider.
    — Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 4 Mar. 2024
  • In some cases, you may be advised to switch birth control methods.
    — Kim Peiffer, Glamour, 23 June 2023
  • There are birth control options that don’t increase your risk.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 30 Nov. 2023
  • This method of birth control doesn’t contain hormones, as pills for women do.
    — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The nurse helped her and eventually opened a birth control clinic in her daughter’s high school in 1970.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2023
  • Another person shared an offer of birth control pills — but only the row of placebos at the bottom of the pack.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2023
  • If accepted, the donor begins a two-week course of birth control pills starting on the third day of their period.
    — Hannah Jackson, ELLE, 8 Dec. 2022
  • In rare cases, hormonal birth control pills can lead to blood clots, heart attack and stroke.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The easiest way to explain it is kind of like mosquito birth control.
    — Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • As the episodes have come out, she's been shocked to see their conversations about birth control get so much attention.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2024
  • According to the Mayo Clinic, a vasectomy is a form of male birth control that cuts the supply of sperm to a man's semen.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Doctors put her on birth control in her 20s to control the heavy bleeding that adenomyosis caused.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Women who are pregnant or take birth control pills are also at a higher risk.
    — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 27 July 2023
  • The Duggar parents were opposed to the use of birth control, promoted modest dress for the women in the family and had strict rules around courtship.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 30 Sep. 2023
  • An intrauterine device is a form of birth control implanted in the uterus, which some women find painful.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Since the decision, U.S. officials approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, which will have no age restriction on sales.
    — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Still, the strict standards for the tolerability of male birth control could raise the floor for female methods too.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2024

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