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 Protect Life Rule doesn’t cut a single dime from family planning.
    Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Staff at a family planning clinic alerted the girl’s family and the police because of her age.
    Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 26 July 2024
  • 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
  • Doctors have also expressed alarm at the prospect of such changes to federal family planning rules.
    New York Times, 17 May 2018
  • 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
  • The Sue Hecks and Jan Bradys of the world are becoming a rarity, as family planning trends from the 1970s have essentially reversed.
    Ashley May, USA TODAY, 13 July 2018
  • 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
  • The Wallace Global Fund has for decades been a leader in helping women gain access to family planning.
    Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 20 July 2018
  • 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
  • By law, federal family planning money cannot be used to pay for abortions.
    Time, 23 July 2019
  • 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
  • Perhaps more concerning is that the U.N. arm designed to help with family planning faces a funding crisis.
    Alex Connor, USA TODAY, 10 July 2018
  • 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
  • Advocates of efforts to reduce birth rates have pointed to the beneficial effects of family planning services.
    Emily Klancher Merchant, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The measure would require that revenues to be used only for specified services, including primary and specialty care, emergency care, family planning, mental health and prescription drugs.
    The Mercury News/east Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2024

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