Abstract Since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, there
has been increased attention to high‐quality and rights‐based family planning, but these …

No validated measures are currently available to assess women's ability to achieve their
reproductive intentions, also referred to as “reproductive autonomy.” We developed and …

For many years, most of us in the Society of Family Planning and the wider reproductive
health community have relied on the number of unintended pregnancies as a justification for …

Women's household decision-making autonomy is a potentially important but less studied
indicator of women's ability to control their fertility. Using a DHS sample of 3,701 married …

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Contraceptive effectiveness is the leading characteristic for most women when choosing a
method, but they often are not well informed about effectiveness of methods. Because of the …

Context: For all persons to enjoy a choice among contraceptive options, a range of methods
must be readily available. Yet measures of access show serious deficits that depress use of …

Research shows a positive relationship between women's empowerment and reproductive
health. Yet we know little about the quantitative relationship between women's agency and …

Despite narratives about empowering women through contraception, global family planning
programs are evaluated primarily by their ability to increase contraceptive uptake and …

Background It has been proposed that the autonomy of women is one of the mechanisms of
how education influences contraceptive use in developing countries. We tested this …