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birth control
[burth kuhn-trohl]
noun
regulation of the number of children born through the deliberate control or prevention of conception.
She campaigned and went to prison for the right of women to practice birth control.
a drug, technique, or device used to deliberately control or prevent conception (often used attributively).
Diaphragms were a common form of birth control long before the invention of contraceptive pills.
Vasectomies are growing in frequency as a birth control method in many countries.
birth control
noun
limitation of child-bearing by means of contraception See also family planning
birth control
Planned interference with conception in order to control the number of offspring born. Birth control techniques include drugs containing hormones, the diaphragm, and the intrauterine device.
birth control
The practice of preventing conception to limit the number of births. (See contraception, family planning, population control, and Margaret Sanger.)
Other 51Թ Forms
- probirth-control adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of birth control1
Example Sentences
"Show me one saint in the history of the Church who ever blessed any kind of birth control," Father Moses says.
He had Means on in September to spread lies meant to scare women out of using hormonal birth control.
In 2007, the city planned to control the population of ground squirrels by giving them birth control shots.
She reread the book and requested a meeting with Blume, who had written it for her daughter around the time when the birth control pill became available to unmarried women.
"I think an outstanding question is how this will all overlap with efforts to restrict birth control and contraception, and how this will affect debates around spending like on childcare funding."
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