rhythm method
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District Court Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle granted Friday a request for a temporary restraining order from Cami Jo Tice-Harouff, a Texas nurse practitioner who specializes in fertility-awareness contraception, sometimes referred to as the rhythm method.
From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2022
The symptothermal method should not be confused with the rhythm method or similar counting techniques.
From Scientific American • May 16, 2019
Several fertility-based-awareness methods, some religiously inflected and others not, have claimed to improve on the rhythm method by tracking a combination of physiological signs to recognize ovulation when it occurs rather than predict it statistically.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 2, 2018
Methods that use only basal body temperature or only cervical mucus are less effective, but still provide better contraceptive efficacy than the rhythm method.
From Slate • Sep. 19, 2018
By contrast, the rhythm method relies on recording the length of past menstrual cycles to determine one’s fertile window.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2018
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