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contraceptive [¦kän·trə¦sep·tiv] (medicine) Any mechanical device or chemical agent used to prevent conception. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Nearly two years after Wyeth pulled its implantable birth control device Norplant from the market amid concerns that some lots might not be effective, the pharmaceutical company has decided not to resume sales. The data collected from the PPFA's clinical trials led the medical establishment to finally accept, and endorse as common medical practice, the dissemination of information on reproduction and birth control, as well as the prescription of birth control devices to all patients requiring them. These students sought my help be cause, by this time, I had already been dubbed by the news media a "birth-control crusader" I had opened the nation's first abortion facility in 1964 and twice been imprisoned for teaching birth control and publicly showing birth control devices inside the twenty-five-foot, mobile classroom I took to the poor people of Long Island and New Jersey. |
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