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unusual facts about birth control



Adoption

Likely contributing factors in the 1960s and 1970s include a decline in the fertility rate, associated with the introduction of the pill, the completion of legalization of artificial birth control methods, the introduction of federal funding to make family planning services available to the young and low income, and the legalization of abortion.

Birth Control International information Centre

This included Sanger's tour of Scandinavia and the Soviet Union in 1934, How-Martyn's tour of India in 1934, and Sanger and How-Martyn's World Tour for Birth Control in 1935-1936, during which they spoke to numerous groups and organized birth control organizations in India, Burma, Malay, China, the Philippines, Japan, Hawaii, Canada, and the West Coast of the United States.

Charles Gilman Norris

The Oxford Companion to American Literature notes that Norris' novels dealt with "such problems as modern education, women in business, hereditary and environmental influences, big business, ethics and birth control." He also published three plays: The Rout of the Philistines (with Nino Marcelli, 1922), A Gest of Robin Hood (with Robert C. Newell, 1929), and Ivanhoe: A Grove Play 1936.

Edith How-Martyn

Norman Haire, who had returned to Australia, informed Margaret Sanger that How-Martyn hoped to 'join forces with him' to do something for birth control despite the war.

Joan Malleson

In 1931, while working for Ealing Borough Council, she became one of the first British doctors to provide birth control advice on behalf of a local authority.

John O'London's Weekly

While McCourt is delivering magazines to shops for the company Eason's, his boss learns from the Irish government that copies of John O'London's Weekly must be censored because they contain an article about birth control.

Ron Stephens

In early February 2006, Stephens challenged Blagojevich in an appearance on The Daily Show to discuss the Governor's executive order that pharmacists must dispense any drugs for which a customer had a valid prescription, including birth control pills and Plan B.

Sarah Blakesley Chase

Sarah Blakesley Chase Sara Blakeslee (born January 18, 1837 in Clermont County, Ohio) achieved notoriety after Anthony Comstock arrested her several times for distributing birth control information and devices.


see also

Birth control in the United States

Gordon, Linda (1976), Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, Grossman Publishers, ISBN 978-0-670-77817-1.

Claudia Goldin

Goldin and Katz noted that the birth control pill was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1960 for use by married women.

Corky Hale

She was a birth control teacher at Planned Parenthood in New York, and is presently on the National Advisory Board of NARAL.

Criticism of Mother Teresa

Particular criticism leveled against her are: for her views on birth control and abortion, which aligned wholly with the Church; the operation and funding of her ministry (her association with people such as disgraced US banker Charles Keating and Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier in particular); as well as her relationship to modern medicine and the benefits it can confer; and her views on suffering .

DMPA

Depo-Provera or Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, a birth control drug

Eastview Birth Control Trial

In September 1936, Dorothea Palmer was arrested in Eastview (now Vanier, Ontario), and charged with possessing materials and pamphlets related to birth control, then highly illegal under Canadian law.

Emergency contraceptive availability by country

On April 5, 2013, Judge Edward R. Korman in Brooklyn, New York, ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make the morning-after birth control pill available to people of any age without a prescription.

Greg Dening

In 1970 he left the priesthood because he could not preach against the use of birth control, the banning of which was outlined by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical Humanae Vitae in 1968.

Humphrey Verdon Roe

Before he met his wife, Roe had attempted to found a birth control clinic in Manchester, offering to finance St Mary's Hospital for the purpose.

In November 1917 Dr Binnie Dunlop, who was also interested in birth control, introduced Roe to Marie Stopes, who had just written a book called Married Love, but couldn't get it published.

Joseph Vanzler

In the 1920s Vanzler married Edith Rose Konikow, the daughter of birth control activist Dr. Antoinette Konikow, a Boston physician and founding member of the Communist Party of America.

NuvaRing

A study by Danish researcher Dr. Øjvind Lidegaard in 2012 with 1.6 million women found a 6.5 times increase in the likelihood of venous thromboembolism when compared to users of non-hormonal based birth control.

Old Higher Lighthouse

The doctor, pioneer of birth control and Portland Museum founder Marie Stopes owned the lighthouse from 1923 until her death in 1958 where over time some of her visitors included George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and Thomas Hardy.

Ormeloxifene

It was first manufactured by Torrent Pharmaceuticals, and marketed as birth control under the trade name Centron.

Patricroft

Humphrey Verdon Roe, his brother, was co-founder of Avro and also co-founder of the first birth control clinic in Britain with Marie Stopes.

QF

Quiverfull, a movement of Christians who eschew all forms of birth control

Ralph Dorfman

There he worked with chemists Carl Djerassi, Luis E. Miramontes, and George Rosenkranz to develop the first publicly available birth control pill, released in 1960.

Reproduction and pregnancy in speculative fiction

See also numerous dystopian stories about state-controlled reproduction, abortion, and birth control, such as Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, or her short story, "Freeforall".

Sattareh Farmanfarmaian

Soon after, she assisted in the founding of the Family Planning Association of Iran which, with assistance from the Pathfinder Fund (now Pathfinder International), attempted to educate young mothers on family planning and the use of birth control in accordance with Islamic law.