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contraception

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birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery

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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. Julie Burchill

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.' Woody Allen

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. Hillary Clinton

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us. Sandra Fluke

See, we don't go in for your so-called ‘birth control' here. No abortion. No contraception. We accept the gift of life when it is given. We believe that every human being, from the moment of conception on, has a right to a life-although,” he added, "not necessarily a long one. Frederik Pohl

Militarists also were strongly opposed to the new invention; for in the cheap and efficient production of illusory sexual embraces they saw a danger even more serious than contraception. The supply of cannon-fodder would decline. Olaf Stapledon

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