Early marriage in many part of Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia means that many engage in intercourse even before they are teenagers and have limited choice over birth control.

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It is difficult to believe that the accident of his birth place and his choice of the UK as home are the reasons for what is widely seen as prevarication and delay in the appointment.

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Women were most likely to say they had the kind of facilities and support for the type of birth they wanted if they did not give birth in hospital, leading the NCT to renew its call for all women to have the choice of a home birth and access to a midwife-led unit.

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In others, such as America, it may be an accident of birth, with no conscious choice involved.

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And you'll forgive me, but I think those of us who are Americans by choice rather than by birth have a different view.

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The defenders of Roe insisted that the first giant step required the second because otherwise women would not have an undistorted choice between abortion and live birth.

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Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, an advocacy group that supports birth control, said he is skeptical that relying on insurance companies to implement a "work-around" for employees of religious organizations will prove to be an effective solution.

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The first American woman to obtain a pain-free birth, Fanny Longfellow, the wife of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was severely criticized for her choice.

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But, while Tautou's unmistakable similarity to Coco Chanel made her an obvious choice for the role, the striking actress says she wasn't interested in doing a "birth to death" biopic of the designer.

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