Word: birth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...informational questions," says PCC co-director Angela L. Peluse '01. "Like the condom broke, I forgot to take a [birth control] pill, I threw up a pill, what about emergency contraception...
...recent years, students have brought more serious concerns to PCC staffers. These days sexually transmitted diseases, in addition to birth control, are the chief concerns of sexually active college students, PCC members...
...upholding the constitutional rights of women. Those who are murdering them are brazen hypocrites. Antiabortion activists willing to kill for their cause are indefensible. Many people are unsure where they stand on abortion; as an ethical issue it comes in infinite shades of morality ranging from conception to birth. But anti-abortion activists who are silent while a violent fringe element do their dirty work stand against the constitution...
...hormone treatments have drastically cut the incidence of cancer of the uterus, ovaries and cervix over the past five decades. Pap smears that detect abnormal cells in the cervix before they become malignant have contributed to a 75% drop in cervical cancer since the 1950s. Wider use of birth control pills and hormonereplacement therapy (with estrogen and progestin) have decreased the risk of ovarian and uterine cancers. Recent research also suggests that in some cases, a low-fat diet can cut the risk of cervical cancer even further...
PREGNANT PAUSE Want another child? There may be an optimal time to try. Researchers reported last week that women are most likely to produce a healthy, full-term infant if they conceive 18 to 23 months after the birth of their previous child. That works out to about 2 1/2 years between kids. Conceiving after, say, six months increases by 40% the risk of low birth weight or premature delivery. After 10 years, the risk jumps even higher...