Editing Reproductive technology (section)

===Contraception===
{{Main|Contraception}}
[[Contraception]], also known as ''birth control'', is a form of reproductive technology that enables people to prevent [[pregnancy]].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sunderam S, Kissin DM, Crawford SB, Folger SG, Boulet SL, Warner L, Barfield WD | title = Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance - United States, 2015 | journal = MMWR. Surveillance Summaries | volume = 67 | issue = 3 | pages = 1–28 | date = February 2018 | pmid = 29447147 | pmc = 5829941 | doi = 10.15585/mmwr.ss6703a1 | url = https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/51694 }}</ref> There are many forms of contraception, but the term covers any method or device which is intended to prevent pregnancy in a [[Human sexual activity|sexually active]] woman. Methods are intended to "prevent the [[Fertilisation|fertilization]] of an egg or implantation of a [[Zygote|fertilized egg]] in the [[uterus]]."<ref>{{cite web|title=Definition of Birth control|url=http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=53351|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806234913/http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=53351|archive-date=August 6, 2012|access-date=August 9, 2012|work=MedicineNet|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Different forms of birth control have been around since ancient times, but widely available effective and safe methods only became available during the mid-1900s.<ref name="Hopkins2010">{{cite book|title=The Johns Hopkins manual of gynecology and obstetrics|vauthors=Hanson SJ, Burke AE|publisher=Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|year=2010|isbn=978-1-60547-433-5|veditors=Hurt KJ, Guile MW, Bienstock JL, Fox HE, Wallach EE|edition=4th|location=Philadelphia|pages=382–395|chapter=Fertility control: contraception, sterilization, and abortion|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Sg5sXyiBvkC&pg=PR232}}</ref>