Examples of abstinence in the following topics:
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- The temperance movement of the early nineteenth century advocated for alcohol moderation or complete abstinence from alcohol.
- The movement advocated temperance, or levelness, rather than abstinence.
- The movement split along two lines in the late 1830s between moderates, who allowed some drinking, and radicals, who demanded total abstinence.
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- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity. " The purpose of the WCTU was to further the temperance movement and create a "sober and pure world" by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity.
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- The purpose of the WCTU was to further the temperance movement and to create a, "sober and pure world" through abstinence, purity, and evangelical Christianity.
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told the story of one woman who required care following a self-induced abortion
and had begged a doctor for medical assistance, but was met only with the
advice to remain abstinent.
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- The military undertook an extensive education campaign, focusing on abstinence, but also offering some contraceptive guidance.