"Police Veto Halts Birth Control Talk; Town Hall in Tumult"
Newspaper article
By: The New York Times
Date: November 14, 1921
Source: "Police Veto Halts Birth Control Talk; Town Hall in Tumult." The New York Times, November 14, 1921, 1, 7.
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Introduction
Birth control is by no means solely a modern issue. Eighteenth-century families were forced to use rather ineffective methods such as breast-feeding (which generally halts a woman's menstrual cycle) and coitus interruptus. In the nineteenth century birth control came increasingly to be viewed as "radical," in part...
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