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…because of his views. One of his rewards was a position on the Board of Directors of the American Birth Control League (later Planned Parenthood), which he held from March…
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…never heard any of this before, and you realize you’re going to have to rethink your desire for hormonal birth control. The Petition In June 2019, 10 doctors and researchers…
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…currently use contraception used the implant.” Those who use birth control implants tend to be younger women and women from low-income households. Many have Medicaid or are uninsured. Researchers believe…
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…The slogan of The Birth Control News was printed on a lantern: “Birth Control: Joyous and Deliberate Motherhood, a Sure Light in Our Racial Darkness.” Stopes attended the Third Reich’s…
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…court decision exempted contraception from the specifications of the Comstock Act, and the following year the American Medical Association cleared the way by accepting birth control as a normal component…
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…of contraception stem from the way contraception has seemingly short-circuited the need for self-control. Contraception, as Pope Paul VI said, removes the “incentives to keep the moral law.” If doing…
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…been the country’s decades-old, forced birth control policy. Enforced population measures were rolled out in China in the 1970s, before being hardened into a nationwide one-child policy in 1979. Under…
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…her reasonings for why she believed women “need” birth control. In “Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Sanger writes: “We who advocate birth control…lay all our emphasis upon stopping not only…
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…without birth control seemed to me a house built upon sands. The eugenicists wanted to shift the birth control emphasis from less children for the poor to more children for…
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The birth control shot, Depo-Provera (DP), is an injectable contraceptive drug that sometimes has an abortifacient effect. While the intention behind using it is simply to prevent pregnancy, it also…
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