Editing Reproductive rights (section)

===Birth control===
{{See also|Forced pregnancy}}
[[Birth control]], also known as contraception and fertility control, is a method or device used to prevent [[pregnancy]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Definition of Birth control|url=http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=53351|work=MedicineNet|access-date=9 August 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806234913/http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=53351|archive-date=6 August 2012}}</ref> Birth control has been used since ancient times, but effective and safe methods of birth control only became available in the 20th century.<ref name=Hopkins2010>{{cite book|last1=Hanson|first1=S.J.|last2=Burke|first2=Anne E.|date=21 December 2010|chapter=Fertility control: contraception, sterilization, and abortion|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Sg5sXyiBvkC&pg=PR232|editor1-last=Hurt|editor1-first=K. Joseph|editor2-last=Guile|editor2-first=Matthew W.|editor3-last=Bienstock|editor3-first=Jessica L.|editor4-last=Fox|editor4-first=Harold E.|editor5-last=Wallach|editor5-first=Edward E.|title=The Johns Hopkins manual of gynecology and obstetrics|edition=4th|location=Philadelphia|publisher=Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|pages=382–395|isbn=978-1-60547-433-5}}</ref> Planning, making available, and using birth control is called [[family planning]].<ref name=OED2012>{{cite book|url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/19395|title=Oxford English Dictionary|date=June 2012|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref><ref name="WHO-health-topic">{{cite web|url=https://www.who.int/topics/family_planning/en/|title=Family planning|author=World Health Organization (WHO)|publisher=World Health Organization (WHO)|work=Health topics|access-date=28 March 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318195523/http://www.who.int/topics/family_planning/en/|archive-date=18 March 2016}}</ref> Some cultures limit or discourage access to birth control because they consider it to be morally, religiously, or politically undesirable.<ref name=Hopkins2010 />

All birth control methods meet opposition, especially [[religion|religious]] opposition, in some parts of the world. Opposition does not only target modern methods, but also 'traditional' ones; for example, the [[Quiverfull]] movement, a conservative Christian ideology, encourages the maximization of procreation, and opposes all forms of birth control, including [[natural family planning]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/arrows-war/|title=Arrows for the War|last=Joyce|first=Kathryn|journal=The Nation|date=9 November 2006|access-date=19 June 2019|language=en-US|issn=0027-8378}}</ref>