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Family planning is the spacing or preventing
the birth of children. Access to
family-planning services is a significant
factor in women's health as well as in
limiting population growth. If all those
women who wished to avoid further childbirth
were able to do so, the number of births
would be reduced by 27% in Africa, 33% in
Asia, and 35% in Latin America. In the UK,
family planning and birth control became
acceptable partly through the efforts of
Marie Stopes who opened a clinic in London in
1921.
Subject by: Robert Small