1934 - Population

Population

Western Australian nationalists at Kalgoorlie stage a 3-day riot in January to protest an influx of immigrants from southern Europe.

Birth Control: Its Use and Misuse by Illinois-born New York journalist Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, 37, states that America could avoid 8,000 maternal deaths per year by legalizing abortion, at least until adequate contraceptives are made available. Condoms are now made of latex, making them more comfortable than earlier rubber ones.

Scientists isolate the female sex hormone progesterone, secreted naturally after the monthly release of an egg from a woman's ovaries (see estrogen, 1929). It causes the lining of the uterus to firm and thicken, inhibits some of the effects of estrogen, prevents the release of a second egg (thus preventing more than one pregnancy per month), and, if a fertilized egg does not adhere to the thickened uterine wall, stimulates the shedding of endometrial tissue to produce menstrual bleeding (see Marker, 1943).

"Woman has her battlefield," declaims Adolf Hitler in an address to women at Nuremberg September 14. "With each child that she brings to the nation, she fights her fight for the nation."

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