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spermicide any drug or other agent that kills spermatozoa How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Not only did those associated with the clinic leaflet pedestrians at downtown street corners, but they also left stacks of fliers inside downtown office buildings, fliers which plainly illustrated a diaphragm resting snugly against a cervix and the insertion of spermicidal jelly from a tube cleverly bearing the clinic's name. Birth control" was defined by a list of contraceptive methods including condoms, spermicidal foam or film, diaphragm, oral contraceptive pills (OCPs; "birth control pills"), depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA; Depo-Provera; "the Depo-Provera shot"), and levonorgestrel implants ("Norplant"). Thirty-seven percent of the surveyed pharmacists did not know that emergency contraceptive pills and oral contraceptive pills have a similar mechanism of action (Table 2): Nineteen percent incorrectly responded that the mechanism of action is most similar to that of mifepristone, 6% incorrectly responded that it does not resemble that of spermicidal products, oral contraceptives or mifepristone, and 12% responded they were not sure (not shown). |
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