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While the policy grounds are fully persuasive – the ability to prevent or space pregnancy being an essential part of women's health care, one that shouldn't be withheld simply because a woman's employer is church-affiliated – the purpose of this column is to examine the conscience claim itself, directly, to see whether it holds up.
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Responsible parents use contraception to delay and space pregnancies out of a deeply held desire to give their best attention, resources and opportunities to each child they bring into the world.
For example, we know that family planning enables women to space pregnancies at the healthiest intervals.
Educated girls will marry later, delay having children, and will space pregnancies to improve health outcomes.
Specifically, this includes contraceptive services to help women time and space pregnancies as well as treatment of septic or incomplete abortions.
The ability to plan, prevent and space pregnancies is directly linked to benefits to women, men, children and a just society, including more educational and economic opportunities, healthier babies, more stable families and reduced taxpayer burden.
Family planning could prevent up to 30% of the approximately 287,000 global maternal deaths that occur per year by enabling women to delay their first pregnancy and to space pregnancies at safe intervals.
Breastfeeding also reinforces bonds between the mother and baby, with benefits for the mother such as reducing the risk of ovarian and breast cancer, helping to space pregnancies, and lowering obesity rates.
Terms for pregnancy interval included birth interval, birth spacing, pregnancy interval, first birth interval, inter-delivery interval, pregnancy gap and pregnancy spacing (Additional file 1).
But when that one study was excluded, the risk of having a low-birth-weight baby appeared to be lower for more closely spaced pregnancies, at 74percentthehe rate of longer-spaced pregnancies.
Malnutrition, stunted growth, malaria and other infections, anemia and closely spaced pregnancies all add to the risks.
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