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birth control

A satirical Victorian era postcard, where a woman swats away the stork which has brought her her child.

Etymology

Margaret Sanger coined the term "birth control" in 1914, using it in the July 1914 issue of The Woman Rebel, and was criminally indicted for it in August 1914, under the Comstock Law for obscenity in print.^[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Voluntary control of the number of children conceived, especially by the planned use of contraception.
- 2024 October 17, Deidre McPhillips, “Some IUDs linked to higher rates of breast cancer, but overall risk remains low”, in CNN‎:
  The latest research, published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA, analyzed years of health records for thousands of Danish women ages 15 to 49, with an even split between those who started using intrauterine devices that release the hormone levonorgestrel for birth control and those who hadn’t used any type of hormonal contraceptive.
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Any technique used to prevent the birth of a child (such as abortion or preventing conception).

Synonyms

oligogenics

Derived terms

birth control glasses, BCG, BCGs, BC (US Navy standard issue eyeglass frames euphemistically referred to as "BC" or "birth control" due to their unattractiveness)
birth control pill

Translations

voluntary control of the number of children conceived — see also contraception,‎ contraceptive

Category:Entries with translation boxes#BIRTH%20CONTROL

Apache:
Western Apache: izeeʼ bichįʼ doo ichį́į́ dahíCategory:Terms with Western Apache translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Arabic: تَحْدِيد اَلنَّسْل m (taḥdīd an-nasl)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Catalan: control de la natalitat mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Chinese:
Mandarin: 節育 / 节育 (zh) (jiéyù)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#BIRTH%20CONTROL Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BIRTHCONTROL, 避孕 (zh) (bìyùn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#BIRTH%20CONTROL Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BIRTHCONTROL, 計劃生育 / 计划生育 (zh) (jìhuà shēngyù)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#BIRTH%20CONTROL Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BIRTHCONTROL, ^{(please verify)} 生育控制 (shēngyù kòngzhì)Category:Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#BIRTH%20CONTROLCategory:Terms with Mandarin translations#BIRTHCONTROL Category:Requests for review of Mandarin translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Finnish: syntyvyyden säännöstelyCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#BIRTHCONTROL, ehkäisy (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#BIRTHCONTROL
French: contrôle des naissances (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Georgian: შობადობის კონტროლი (šobadobis ḳonṭroli)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#BIRTHCONTROL
German: Geburtenkontrolle (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Gujarati: સંતતિનિયમન n (santtiniyaman)Category:Terms with Gujarati translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Hindi: जनसंख्या-नियंत्रण (jansaṅkhyā-niyantraṇ)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Japanese: 産児制限 (ja) (さんじせいげん, sanji seigen)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Kazakh: туу бақылау (tuu baqylau)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Korean: 산아제한 (ko) (sanajehan)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Manx: anghientyn mCategory:Terms with Manx translations#BIRTHCONTROL, castey clienney mCategory:Terms with Manx translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Persian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Persian#BIRTHCONTROL
Polish: antykoncepcja (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Portuguese: controle de natalidade mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Russian: контро́ль рожда́емости (ru) m (kontrólʹ roždájemosti)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Spanish: control de la natalidad mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BIRTHCONTROL, método anticonceptivo mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Swedish: födelsekontroll (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Tagalog: supil-suplingCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#BIRTHCONTROL, supil sa panganganakCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#BIRTHCONTROL
Welsh: atal cenhedlu mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#BIRTHCONTROL

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