How to Use family planning in a Sentence

family planning

noun
  • So even that aspect of his work is kind of crushed under the wheels of this new era of family planning.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The question, says Kuhn, is not whether family planning should be funded less.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 13 July 2021
  • After all, the rhythm method helped my parents with family planning back ...
    Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promised to put $1.4 billion into family planning over the next five years.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 13 July 2021
  • The year, and maybe Nick Cannon’s family planning, is just getting started.
    Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 20 June 2021
  • Be sure your company’s parental leave aligns with your family planning.
    Julia Wuench, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Basal body temperature is often used as a tool in family planning, so this isn’t coming out of left field.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 31 July 2023
  • Amanda Knox is speaking on the affect long prison sentences can have on a woman's family planning.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Good real estate for family planning isn’t always easy to come by.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Also among the action are Sam, a wise local doctor who works and plays too hard, and Delia, a meek, young neighbor fighting hard to open a family planning clinic in Harlem.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In a joint interview with GQ, the couple discussed their family planning.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • As family planning activists have long known, the right to control fertility includes the right to plan for a healthy family, as well as the right to plan not to have a family.
    Laura Beers, CNN, 27 May 2022
  • Hannah was anxious about losing time and didn’t want to delay family planning.
    Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2022
  • That suggests the need for a further analysis of family planning programs in other states.
    Kasra Zarei, Wired, 8 July 2021
  • When asked about family planning, King confirmed at the time that Kirby is currently pregnant.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2021
  • In fact, one in three Indigenous Guatemalan women have no access to healthcare or family planning services.
    Shahrazad Encinias, refinery29.com, 8 June 2022
  • There cannot be equity in family planning without more options for men, experts say.
    Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 13 May 2022
  • Planned Parenthood has a right to provide services for family planning.
    Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Weddings were put on hold, pushing back family planning, and single people faced new challenges in meeting a partner.
    Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Nearly a quarter of married women and half of unmarried women in the country have unmet needs for family planning.
    Max G. Levy, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2022
  • According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the lights effectively went out of family planning and women’s health clinics coast to coast.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Some of the districts surveyed offer only a few days of leave, making family planning and childcare challenging for teachers.
    Nancy Cordes, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Your brother is butting into your household, family planning, relationship with your parents, and bond with a child.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022
  • And as Kanem pointed out, the billions that the human race will gain this century are the result not of unsuccessful family planning but of better health policy.
    Quartz, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The original version of this story misstated the amount The Gates Foundation is committing to spend on family planning.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 13 July 2021
  • Xinhua, the latest easing of strict family planning policies as the country tries to avert a demographic crisis.
    Ben Westcott, CNN, 31 May 2021
  • One of them is family planning, which until now has been largely absent from the conversation around global warming.
    Eugene Linden, Time, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Most of that government funding comes from Medicaid and the Title X family planning program.
    Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Becky Sauerbrunn, who replaced Markgraf both at center back and as a team captain, has taken a different approach to her family planning.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2022
  • At first, this was often attributed to the Catholic Church’s opposition to family planning, and the resulting large Catholic families.
    Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2022

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