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MSI Reproductive Choices

MSI Reproductive Choices is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand MSI Reproductive Choices rather than just read about it. In short: MSI Reproductive Choices, named Marie Stopes International until November 2020, is an international non-governmental organisation providing contraception and safe abortion services in 37 countries around the world. MSI Reproductive Choices as an organisation lobbies in favour of access to abortion, and provides a variety of sexual and reproductive healthcare services including advice, vasectomies, and abortions in t…

Key takeaways

MSI Reproductive Choices belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect MSI Reproductive Choices to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of MSI Reproductive Choices from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

MSI Reproductive Choices, named Marie Stopes International until November 2020, is an international non-governmental organisation providing contraception and safe abortion services in 37 countries around the world. MSI Reproductive Choices as an organisation lobbies in favour of access to abortion, and provides a variety of sexual and reproductive healthcare services including advice, vasectomies, and abortions in the UK and other countries where it is legal to do so. It is based in London and is a registered charity under English law. In 2015 there were an estimated 21 million women around the world using a method of contraception provided by Marie Stopes International. The organisation claims that in 2015 the services that it averted 6.3 million unintended pregnancies, 4 million unsafe abortions and 18,100 maternal deaths. The organisation's core services include family planning; safe abortion and post-abortion care; maternal and child health care, including safe delivery and obstetrics; diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections; and HIV/AIDS prevention.

History The first family planning clinic ever established in Great Britain, the Mother's Clinic for Constructive Birth Control was established by British author, birth control campaigner and women's rights activist Marie Stopes with her husband Humphrey Verdon Roe in March 1921 and operated virtually uninterrupted until 1975 on the same premises at number 61, Marlborough Road in Holloway, North London. Operating in later years as the Marie Stopes Foundation, in 1975 the organization found itself bankrupt and entered voluntary administration. It was taken over by Population Services Family Planning Programme Ltd, the European branch of Population Services International (PSI), under the direction of British physician Tim Black, who re-founded the organisation as a social business named Marie Stopes International in 1976. In 1992, it set up Options Consultancy Services, a wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in the United Kingdom, stating that it is a "provider of technical expertise, short-term consultancy and long-term management services in the health and the social sectors". In 2000, Marie Stopes opened in Australia, trading under Marie Stopes Australia. It is the only national, independently accredited safe abortion, vasectomy and contraception provider in the country. In 2008, Marie Stopes International opened in Mexico City state, where legislative change enabled improved access to abortion services.

Controversy

Name change In November 2020, Marie Stopes International changed its name to "MSI Reproductive Choices", in reaction to Stopes's views on eugenics, which were in "stark contrast" to its values. The name of the organisation had been under discussion for many years.

Care Quality Commission investigation In December 2016, the Care Quality Commission, a British regulatory watchdog, published a report stating 10 clinics operated by MSI Reproductive Choices had failed to adequately train staff and in some cases failed to obtain informed consent from patients.

Activities

Contraception MSI estimated that the services they provided in 2019 prevented approximately 13 million unintended pregnancies, 34,600 maternal deaths and 6.5 million unsafe abortions. In 2019 there were 32 million women using a method of contraception provided by MSI.

Social marketing MSI runs contraceptive social marketing programmes in 17 countries, such as the Kushi contraceptive pill and injectable in India, Raha condom and Smart Lady emergency contraceptive pill in Kenya, Jodi Condom in Nepal, Lifeguard condom in Uganda and Snake condom in Australia aimed at the Aboriginal population market.

Consultancy MSI works with a variety of organizations through its subsidiary, Options Consultancy Services. Their partners include Action for Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, British Expertise, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), Global Financing Facility, KFW Bankengruppe, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UK Department for International Development, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO).

References

External links MSI Reproductive Choices Regional Websites

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with MSI Reproductive Choices

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what MSI Reproductive Choices claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to MSI Reproductive Choices before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about MSI Reproductive Choices ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of MSI Reproductive Choices

In research: MSI Reproductive Choices appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses MSI Reproductive Choices in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: MSI Reproductive Choices is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Abortion-rights organisations in the United Kingdom, Abortion-rights organizations, Birth control providers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for MSI Reproductive Choices outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study MSI Reproductive Choices in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what MSI Reproductive Choices means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain MSI Reproductive Choices out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is MSI Reproductive Choices in simple terms?

Why does MSI Reproductive Choices matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study MSI Reproductive Choices?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on MSI Reproductive Choices.