How to Use family planning in a Sentence

family planning

noun
  • By law, federal family planning money cannot be used to pay for abortions.
    Time, 23 July 2019
  • The family planning rule is being challenged around the country in court cases that have yet to resolve the core issues involved.
    Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2019
  • Troubles with the agency's family planning and cancer screening programs also came to light.
    Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2019
  • States require hospitals to report any surgery mistakenly performed on the wrong body part or patient, but no one tracks these errors in family planning services.
    Dov Fox, WIRED, 17 July 2019
  • Facebook’s policy prohibits the promotion of the sale or use of adult products or services except for ads that pertain to family planning and contraception.
    Polina Marinova, Fortune, 31 July 2019
  • 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
  • And in many areas, Planned Parenthood is the only family planning provider.
    Shefali Luthra, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • At the same time, places with lower use of birth control could see a reduction in twins as more people get access to better family planning.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Others want to take family planning out of the woman’s health insurance on religious or so call moral grounds.
    The Rev. Dr. Wm. Louis "lou" Piel, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 31 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • After her detention, she was forced to pay a fine of more than $2,500 for breaking China’s family planning rules by having three, not two, children.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
  • All of these frozen embryos are a real estate nightmare for the clinics across the country that need to store these sacks of cells for months, or even years, as their patients work through their family planning futures.
    Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The ruling makes no sense, Charbonneau said, noting that for every dollar spent on family planning, states save between $7 and $10.
    Nicole Brodeur, The Seattle Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • In fact, one in three Indigenous Guatemalan women have no access to healthcare or family planning services.
    Shahrazad Encinias, refinery29.com, 8 June 2022
  • The clinic urged 43 students to learn about family planning from a medical professional; eight did not show up.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • The researchers point to the closures of some family planning clinics and broad public confusion about what options remain legal in the wake of the June 2022 Dobbs decision as key factors contributing to this trend.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 26 June 2024
  • After decades of strict family planning, more workers are now exiting the labor market than entering it.
    Shannon K. O'Neil, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022

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