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Birth Control , A measure or measures undertaken to prevent conception.
In the 1800s, temperance unions and anti-vice societies headed efforts to prohibit birth cont… Controlled Pollination , controlled pollination Margaret Higgins Sanger , Sanger, Margaret
Margaret Sanger
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"By word and deed, [Sanger] pioneered the most radical, humane, and transforming political movement of the… Childlessness , Childlessness, according to the International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations (IUSSP) demographic dictionary, "refers to the state of a… Calve , calve / kav/ • v. 1. [intr.] (of cows and certain other large animals) give birth to a calf. ∎ [tr.] (of a person) help (a cow) give birth to a calf.… Birth , Birth
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Women's Domain. Throughout the entire period from 1350 to 1600, childbirth was strictly a female affair. The husband was not present un…
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oral contraceptive