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The Amish are conscious of the advantages of exogamy. A common bloodline in one community will often be absent in another, and genetic disorders can be avoided by choosing spouses from unrelated communities. For example, the founding families of the Lancaster County Amish are unrelated to the founders of the Perth County, Ontario, Amish community.
Certain Conservative Mennonites such as Beachy Amish Mennonite fellowships, maintain a prohibition against the use of birth control, though natural family planning is permitted. [55] [page needed] [56] Old Colony Mennonites, like the Old Order Amish, do not officially allow birth control practices. [57]
The United Methodist Church, holds that "each couple has the right and the duty prayerfully and responsibly to control conception according to their circumstances."Its Resolution on Responsible Parenthood states that in order to "support the sacred dimensions of personhood, all possible efforts should be made by parents and the community to ensure that each child enters the world with a ...
Searches for "birth control" and "Plan B" doubled between Nov. 2 and the two days after the election, with a notable spike the day after the election, Google Search data shows.
“Now more than ever, access to and coverage of birth control is critical as the Biden-Harris Administration works to help ensure women everywhere can get the contraception they need, when they ...
“We have to remember that 70 percent of people taking birth control take it for a reason outside of pregnancy prevention, the main one being painful, heavy periods,” she says.
Rumspringa is mentioned in the standard works about the Amish, like Hostettler’s Amish Society, the works of Donald Kraybill, An Amish Paradox by Hurst and McConell and others, but there is only one scholarly book about it: Richard A. Stevick: Growing up Amish: The Teenage Years, Baltimore, 2007. There is also one documentary book:
Starting this month, women across our state will have access to up to six months of prescription birth control at a time (previously, plans could limit prescriptions to one month at a time).