HLSC 2P50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Medroxyprogesterone Acetate, Vas Deferens, Vasectomy
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If all successful may be publication bias not reporting unsuccessful. Cdn 16 year olds sex active 15%-30% don"t use condoms consistently. 2010, 2. 8 per hundred teen girls pregnant. 14. 1/1000 cdn women had abortion in 2005. Birth control in high school 24% (m) 98% (f) Birth control was legalized in canada in. Abortion became legal (or at least not illegal in 1988) 1936: social worker tried for giving info to client on bc. 1960: toronto druggist convicted for selling bc. 1969: bc legalized (by trudeau) abortion still criminal code, illegal unless health threatened, mid, hospital, 3 md committee to determine, 8 wks. 1988: supreme court tears down now abortion not illegal, regional diffs in services. According to fisher and black (2007) the contraceptive most used by married couples was sterilization. Med community used to be conservative about using. Would only use is age x number of kids = 120 (no longer in place) Vasectomy 2x as popular as female sterilization (simpler)