Abortion and Birth Control in Literature (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At Issue
For centuries, abortion, artificial termination of pregnancy, was one of the few ways to prevent the birth of an unwanted child. In the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, researchers made tremendous progress in understanding the physiology of reproduction, and other methods of birth control gradually became available. Abortions are still practiced as a means of birth control, but people also have access to a wide variety of reliable birth control methods, such as condoms, diaphragms, IUDs, birth control pills, and surgical sterilization.
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