birth control

birth control

English

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]

Noun

birth control (uncountable)

1. Voluntary control of the number of children conceived, especially by the planned use of contraception.
2. Any technique used to prevent the birth of a child (such as abortion or preventing conception).

Synonyms

• oligogenics

Derived terms

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

Translations

voluntary control of the number of children conceived

Apache: Western Apache: izeeʼ bichįʼ doo ichį́į́ dahí Arabic: تَحْدِيد اَلنَّسْل‎ m (taḥdīd an-nasl) Chinese: Mandarin: 生育控制 (shēngyù kòngzhì), 節育／节育 (zh) (jiéyù), 避孕 (zh) (bìyùn), 計劃生育／计划生育 (zh) (jìhuà shēngyù) Finnish: syntyvyyden säännöstely, ehkäisy (fi) French: contrôle des naissances (fr) m German: Geburtenkontrolle (de) f Gujarati: સંતતિનિયમન n (santtiniyaman) Japanese: 産児制限 (さんじせいげん, sanji seigen) Kazakh: туу бақылау (tuu baqylau) Korean: 산아제한 (ko) (sanajehan) Manx: anghientyn m, castey clienney m Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: antykoncepcja (pl) f Portuguese: controle de natalidade m Russian: контро́ль рожда́емости (ru) m (kontrólʹ roždájemosti) Spanish: control de la natalidad m Swedish: födelsekontroll (sv) c Tagalog: supil-supling, supil sa panganganak

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Turkish: (please verify) doğum kontrolü (tr), (family planning) (please verify) aile planlaması (tr)

See also

• family limitation
• family planning
• the pill
• prophylactic
• voluntary motherhood

References

1. PBS, The Pill, "Timeline: The Pill", American Experience (accessed 2014-10-30)