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birth control

[ burth kuhn-trohl ]

noun

  1. regulation of the number of children born through the deliberate control or prevention of conception: Compare family planning ( def 1 ).

    She campaigned and went to prison for the right of women to practice birth control.

  2. 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

  1. limitation of child-bearing by means of contraception See also family planning
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


birth control

  1. 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

  1. The practice of preventing conception to limit the number of births. ( See contraception , family planning , population control , and Margaret Sanger .)


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  • pro·birth-con·trol adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of birth control1

First recorded in 1905–10; popularized in 1914 by Margaret Sanger ( def )
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Example Sentences

Some Roman Catholics have leaped to her defense as a case of coercive birth control.

They also told her that birth control rarely works, she says.

Mandatory birth control and incentivized interethnic marriage dilute the size and concentration of minorities, who are dispatched to faraway provinces for work and education at the same time as Han settlers are beckoned in.

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In addition, medical advancements and federal regulators’ approval of the birth control pill in the 1960s expanded reproductive freedom for women.

Though tried and jailed under vice laws, she persisted in arguing that women should have charge of their own bodies, coining the term “birth control.”

This leaves thousands of women at companies across the United States left to pay out of pocket for their birth control.

Increased access to affordable birth control has strengthened the economic security of communities.

Refuting critics who say he is anti-contraception, Gardner is calling for over-the-counter sale of birth control pills.

But the other couples are mainly devout Catholics who toe the party line when it comes to birth control and divorce.

Plan B is taking two birth control pills in the morning and two in the evening.

Maternity imposes on woman a heavy burden, and before the discovery of birth control, a burden that is continuous.

Without birth control there can be no freedom, no happiness, no permanence in love, and there can be no mastery of life.

I do not know if I am violating the law in thus telling you how to find out about birth control.

People who condemn birth control always argue as if one wished to teach this knowledge indiscriminately to the young.

Nothing wrong when you may find in any city women standing at street corners distributing booklets on birth control?

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