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English

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

Etymology

百度 中国有句老话，乱离人，不及太平犬。

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.

Pronunciation

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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 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

• Apache:

  Western Apache: izee? bich?? doo ich???? dahí

• Arabic: ???????? ????????? m (ta?dīd an-nasl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 節育 / 节育 (zh) (jiéyù), 避孕 (zh) (bìyùn), 計劃生育 / 计划生育 (zh) (jìhuà shēngyù), ^{(please verify)} 生育控制 (shēngyù kòngzhì)

• Finnish: syntyvyyden s??nn?stely, ehk?isy (fi)
• French: contr?le des naissances (fr) m
• Georgian: ????????? ???????? (?obadobis ?on?roli)
• German: Geburtenkontrolle (de) f
• Gujarati: ?????????? n (santtiniyaman)
• Hindi: ????????-???????? (jansa?khyā-niyantra?)
• Japanese: 産児制限 (ja) (さんじせいげん, sanji seigen)
• Kazakh: туу ба?ылау (tuu baqylau)
• Korean: ???? (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: контро?ль рожда?емости (ru) m (kontról? ro?dájemosti)
• Spanish: control de la natalidad m, método anticonceptivo m
• Swedish: f?delsekontroll (sv) c
• Tagalog: supil-supling, supil sa panganganak

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Translations to be checked

• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} do?um kontrolü (tr), (family planning) ^{(please verify)} aile planlamas? (tr)

See also

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