birth control
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.: Compare family planning (def. 1).
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.
Origin of birth control
1Other words from birth control
- pro·birth-con·trol, adjective
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How to use birth control in a sentence
Some Roman Catholics have leaped to her defense as a case of coercive birth control.
The history fueling doubts over Britney Spears’s religious conversion | Rebecca Davis | August 26, 2021 | Washington PostThey also told her that birth control rarely works, she says.
The Mississippi clinic at the center of the fight to end abortion in America | Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Ariana Eunjung Cha | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostMandatory 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.
How Beijing Is Redefining What It Means to Be Chinese, from Xinjiang to Inner Mongolia | CHARLIE CAMPBELL/SHANGHAI | July 12, 2021 | TimeIn 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.”
How medicine sought to control women’s bodies while ignoring their symptoms | Susan Okie | July 2, 2021 | Washington Post
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.
What Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff Can Teach Hillary Clinton | Heather Arnet | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRefuting 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.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairWithout birth control there can be no freedom, no happiness, no permanence in love, and there can be no mastery of life.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairI do not know if I am violating the law in thus telling you how to find out about birth control.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairPeople who condemn birth control always argue as if one wished to teach this knowledge indiscriminately to the young.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairNothing wrong when you may find in any city women standing at street corners distributing booklets on birth control?
The Call of the Canyon | Zane Grey
British Dictionary definitions for birth control
limitation of child-bearing by means of contraception: See also family planning
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Scientific definitions for 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.
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Cultural definitions for birth control
The practice of preventing conception to limit the number of births. (See contraception, family planning, population control, and Margaret Sanger.)
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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