Understanding Human Sexuality

Methotrexate is a method of abortion and is also used to treat ectopic pregnancy.

Vasectomies are simpler to perform than female sterilization procedures and are free to obtain in Canada.

Female sterilization is basically the same thing as a hysterectomy.

The combination pill is probably the best choice for a woman over 35 who smokes.

When a couple correctly uses the diaphragm,condom and spermicidal jelly/foam,the likelihood of becoming pregnant is almost nil.

Contraceptive use in our society has become an integral part of our value and behaviour system as seen by the way we begin using contraceptives as teenagers.

Providing contraception has focused primarily upon contraceptive methods for women rather than for men.

Male hormonal contraceptive methods have not been developed because in Western societies women are expected to bear the sole responsibility for contraception.

Theoretically,contraception could be provided by a vaccination.

The teen pregnancy rate in Canada is approximately the same as that in the United States.

Abortion first became legal in Canada (under restricted circumstances)in 1969.

The American Psychological Association reviewed all the research on the relationship between abortion and women's mental health and concluded that women who have a single,legal,first-trimester abortion are not at greater risk for mental health problems than women who deliver an unwanted pregnancy.

Despite the illegality of abortion in Greece until 1986,abortion was widespread and performed by gynecologists in private offices.

Why is a discussion of overpopulation relevant to the history of contraceptive use?

Which contraceptive has the highest typical failure rate?

How does the oral contraceptive pill work?

With statement does NOT describe the role played by progestin in the combination pill?

The combination pill __________ estrogen levels,and it ________ FSH production.

Three women out of every hundred who use the Pill will become pregnant during a year.What does the three percent represent?

Mary is a very conscientious person in all that she does.She applies this sense of conscientiousness in taking her birth control pill.She takes the pill exactly according to directions.Mary can be considered