LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Chapter 13 Contraception and Abortion

Contraception: History and Method Considerations

  1. Discuss contraception in ancient times as well as in the U.S. during the 1800s and early 1900s.
  2. Describe contraceptive attitudes, knowledge, and contraceptive availability in other countries.
  3. Explain the FDA approval process for new types of contraception.
  4. List the factors for consideration when a person is choosing a method of contraception.

Barrier Methods: Condoms and Caps

  1. Explain the effectiveness, advantages, and disadvantages of the male and female condoms.
  2. Describe how the diaphragm, contraceptive sponge, and cervical barriers work as well as their effectiveness rates, advantages, disadvantages, and usage in other countries.

Hormonal Methods for Women: The Pill, The Patch, and More

  1. Discuss the history of and possible future advances in oral contraceptives.
  2. Describe different forms of combination hormonal methods, how they work, their effectiveness, their advantages, and their disadvantages.
  3. Explain the progestin-only methods, including the different forms, effectiveness, advantages, and disadvantages.
  4. Compare and contrast combined hormone methods with progestin-only methods.

Chemical Methods for Women: Spermicides

  1. Explain the different forms, effectiveness, advantages, and disadvantages of spermicides.

Intrauterine Methods for Women: IUDs and IUSs

  1. Compare IUDs and IUSs.
  2. Describe how the IUD/IUS work, effectiveness rates, and advantages, and disadvantages.

Natural Methods for Women and Men

  1. Explain what natural methods are and why they might be used.
  2. Describe the different ways a woman can monitor her fertility, effectiveness rates, and pros and cons of these methods.
  3. Discuss withdrawal and abstinence as contraceptive techniques.

Permanent (Surgical) Methods

  1. Describe the procedure of sterilization for both men and women.
  2. Explain the effectiveness, advantages, disadvantages, and use in other countries of permanent female and male sterilization.

Ineffective Methods and Emergency Contraception

  1. Identify unreliable methods of contraception.
  2. Explain the history, function, and availability of the different forms of emergency contraception.

Contraception in the Future

  1. Discuss possible reasons why contraceptive options have been limited for men.
  2. Describe possible new advances in male and female contraceptive options.

Abortion

  1. Explain what is meant by “pro-life” and “pro-choice” as well as the basis for these positions.
  2. Describe the history of the practice of abortion.
  3. Discuss the impact of Roe v. Wade on women’s deaths due to abortions.
  4. List some of the reasons women have abortions.
  5. Identify the procedures involved in first- and second-trimester abortions as well as the possible complications.
  6. Describe the medical abortion procedures and how they work to terminate a pregnancy.
  7. Discuss the research on women’s physiological and psychological reactions to having an abortion.
  8. Explain reactions men may have to an abortion.
  9. Identify the legislation relevant to teenagers and abortion.
  10. Describe the variation in abortion rates cross-culturally as well as some of the reasons for this variation.