Female contraception and male fertility regulation.

Throughout the third world, the use of abortion as a method of fertility regulation and control has terrible consequences for women's health, the W.H.O. says.

He said the World Health Organization had defined "fertility regulation" as including abortion.

That there is "substantial demand from the community for fertility regulation and for modern contraceptives" and over 20 million couples are already using contraceptives.

The pervasiveness of these practices in the past and the desire for healthful spacing that remains among many peoples should be the principle upon which fertility regulation by modern means is introduced.

He is best known for advancing the view that women in classical antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period deliberately used herbal abortifacients as a means of fertility regulation.

He said the document's definition of "reproductive health" - a broad concept that recurs at many points in the document - included the idea of "fertility regulation."

These demographic data are important for the management of the population generally, and fertility regulation in selected individuals, specifically.

Negotiators also agreed on compromise language on the term "fertility regulation," which Vatican officials say can be used to mean abortion.

As a result of the newspaper's investigation, the American Medical Association announced plans to rewrite its fertility regulations and a grand jury was empaneled.