rhythm method
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District Court Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle granted Friday a request for a temporary restraining order from Cami Jo Tice-Harouff, a Texas nurse practitioner who specializes in fertility-awareness contraception, sometimes referred to as the rhythm method.
From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2022
The symptothermal method should not be confused with the rhythm method or similar counting techniques.
From Scientific American • May 16, 2019
Methods that use only basal body temperature or only cervical mucus are less effective, but still provide better contraceptive efficacy than the rhythm method.
From Slate • Sep. 19, 2018
Raoul Scherwitzl, Natural Cycle’s founder, says his app also goes well beyond digitizing the rhythm method.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2018
There were methods of birth control before the pill, of course—condoms, diaphragms, the rhythm method, and, before those, an ingenious trail of desperate measures traceable as far back as ancient Egypt.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2014
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