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100
These pills are taken daily and contains hormones that prevents pregnancy.
What are oral hormonal pills?
100
These pills are still an on going research.
What is the male pill?
100
This medical examination should be done by every oral contraceptive users at least once a year.
What is a checkup?
100
In general, oral hormonal pills reduce pain from one type of process.
What is menstrual bleeding?
100
These kinds of contraceptives are the choice of most American women who use birth control.
What are oral contraceptives?
200
This method stops a woman from getting pregnant by keeping the man's sperm reaching one of her eggs.
What is contraception?
200
This pill needs to be taken on and off for 21 days for it to maximise the effect.
What is the combination pill?
200
These kinds of medical instructions are needed when buying oral contraceptives.
What is a prescription?
200
The oral hormonal pills reduce this kind of skin condition (usually on the face).
What is acne?
200
In some rural areas in Indonesia, some ethnic groups are restricted from using any birth control methods because of this.
What are beliefs?
300
This substance in the pill controls the ovaries and uterus.
What are hormones?
300
Women who use this pill experience even lighter periods than those taking the combination pill.
What is the mini pill?
300
It is important for women to have these kind of check ups every 3 months after starting to take the oral hormonal pills.
What are blood pressure checkups?
300
Some women experience severe headaches or high blood pressure from a type of substance in the combined pill.
What is estrogen?
300
These three religion groups held the belief that contraception is sinful until the 1930s (name at least 2).
What is the catholic, protestants, and eastern orthodox religion?
400
Oral hormonal pills work by preventing ovulation by keeping some substance in the cervix thick.
What is mucus?
400
This type of pill is a new version of the oral contraceptive, it aims to reduce or even eliminate monthly periods.
What is pill referred to continuous-dosing?
400
Once women stop taking oral contraceptives this is what they regain.
What is fertility?
400
Oral hormonal pills can reduce the risk of these two types of cancers with long-term use (more than 3 years but less than 10 years).
What is the ovarian cancer and endometrial (uterine) cancer?
400
A women can take oral hormonal pills until her menopause or until this age.
What happens at the age of 55?
500
These are the two types of hormones used in oral hormonal pills.
What is estrogen and progestin?
500
This pill should be taken after a women is raped.
What is the emergency contraception pill?
500
All forms are equally effective with typical use, but these kinds of pill is what most women tend to choose.
What is the combined pill?
500
This condition happens when cells from the lining of the uterus appear and flourish outside the uterine cavity.
What is endometriosis?
500
Women who had these kind of diseases should not use oral hormonal contraceptives (name at least 3).
What is heart disease, liver disease, breast cancer, cyst on your ovaries, unexplained vaginal bleeding.