The act of producing offspring.
Questions tagged [birth]
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Side Effects: Male vs Female Birth Control
Occasionally in the news or related information outlets one sees information about a male pill, eg (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).
One claim which I have heard/read on multiple occasions is the following:
birth control for men could exist, but men won't…
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Is legal induced abortion significantly more safe than childbirth?
When it is said that abortion is significantly safer for women compared to childbirth in mainstream media articles, it is often followed by a reference to a scientific study called The Comparative Safety of Legal Induced Abortion and Childbirth in…
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Does taking birth control pills make you 99.9% protected from pregnancy?
Birth control pills is one of the more common methods of protection from pregnancy.
You can find many posts indicating that the probability of getting pregnant while using birth control pill is very very unlikely (for example - This post indicates…
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Does having a natural birth offer health benefits to the child vs. use of pain medication?
Many women insist on a natural birth, without medication to minimize the pain, on the belief that it is safer or healthier for the child then using medication. This is a common enough phenomenon that I don't believe I need to provide any quotes to…
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Does increasing the middle class result in lower birth rates?
I saw an article or two about the phenomenon of well off upper class families having large families. It claimed that his broke the trend of increased economic status resulting in smaller families that has been occurring in developed and developing…
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Does delayed umbilical cord-clamping reduce the risk of anaemia?
In his article 90 Seconds to Change the World", Dr. Alan Greene claims that when a baby is born, one-third of its blood is still in the placenta and that among other health benefits, delayed-cord clamping reduces the risk of iron-deficiency…
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Do long working hours in Spain affect birth rate?
According to "Spain appoints 'minister for sex' to reverse nation's plummeting birth rate":
Experts say long working hours and a culture of eating late at night and going to bed after midnight are partly to blame for the nation’s sex famine.
Rafael…
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