1923 | Population

Population

The Treaty of Lausanne requires a massive transfer of 190,000 Greeks from Turkey to Greece and of 388,000 Muslims from Greece to Turkey (see Neuilly, 1919).

The American Birth Control League (ABCL) opens the Sanger Research Bureau with a birth control clinic in Margaret Sanger's New York house at 17 West 16th Street, where it will remain for 50 years. Sanger says birth control is essentially education for women; she persuades ABCL president James F. Cooper and his associate Herbert Simonds to start Holland-Rantos, the first U.S. company to manufacture rubber diaphragm contraceptives for women (see Wilde, 1833; Sanger, 1921). While the diaphragm is like the sponge and the cervical cap in that it provides a woman with a means of avoiding pregnancy independent of a man's use of a condom, it must be professionally fitted by a physician and is too expensive for most women (see 1929).

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