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
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the failure rate for fertility awareness methods at 24 percent—but that calculation lumps the rhythm method together with other, more effective fertility awareness methods.
From Slate • Sep. 19, 2018
Critics such as Dr. Minkin say fertility-tracking apps are nothing more than a twist on the decades-old rhythm method, which predicts ovulation based on a woman’s menstrual history.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2018
There were methods of birth control before the pill, of course—condoms, diaphragms, the rhythm method, and, before those, an ingenious trail of desperate measures traceable as far back as ancient Egypt.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2014
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