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family planning
n.
A program to regulate the number and spacing of children in a family through the practice of contraception or other methods of birth control.

family planning.
family planning, natural,
methods of preventing conception without the use of artificial contraceptive means. Also called fertility awareness methods . See also contraception.

family planning
Social medicine The constellation of activities, in particular, fertility control–timed contraception and planned conception, undertaken by a heterosexual couple of childbearing yrs to achieve the desired birth spacing and family size. See Fertility, Griswold v. Connecticut


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