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Jessica Davidson is a speaker for Fertility Appreciation Collaborative to Teach the Science (FACTS) and teaches the SymptoThermal method for the Couple to Couple League with her husband. She has a Masters of Theological Studies from the Washington DC session of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family Studies.
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