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Family planning is an essential element of modern life. Family planning supports couples to decide on the size of their family and to appropriately space between pregnancies. Therefore, contraception is a major component of family planning, and it is the responsibility of care provider to support a woman’s choice of the most appropriate and efficient contraceptive option to her after discussing mode of action, effectiveness, safety, advantages and disadvantages, and alternatives to these options.
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Shazly, S., Laughlin-Tommaso, S.K. (2020). Contraception. In: Gynecology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41128-2_4
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