'''''Contraception''''' A distinction is the implicit here between birth control or family planning and contraception. The latter term used , "contraception," is usually reserved for those methods which more directly inhibit or act against conception. Non-contraceptive methods of family planning (to describe limit the intentional prevention number and/or timing of conception or impregnationchildren) include abstinence and Natural Family Planning. Thus contraception Contraception here does not refer to [[abortion]], or to those contraceptive techniques understood to be abortifacient in nature.
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==Family Planning and Contraception==
A distinction is implicit here between ''birth control'' or ''family planning'' and ''contraception''. The latter term, "contraception," is usually reserved for those methods which more directly inhibit or act against conception. Non-contraceptive methods of family planning (to limit the number and/or timing of children) include abstinence and Natural Family Planning.
===Natural Family Planning===
