HSCI 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Intrauterine Device, Uterine Perforation, Endometrial Cancer
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Pro-choice movement=a movement whose followers believe that a woman has the option to choose whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. Silphium, a plant used in ancient greece for preventing pregnancy, was so popular that it eventually became extinct during the third or second century bce. Intra-crural intercourse=rubbing the penis between the partner"s thighs. Family planning=individual/partnered choice over the spacing and number of children a woman/couple will have. A brief history of birth control in canada. Using, selling, and disseminating contraception was regarded as a crime under canada"s. Criminal code of 1892 because it was though that contraception corrupted morals. The first formal contraception advocacy organization in canada was formed in. Vancouver, in 1923, and the first birth control clinic opened in hamilton, ontario, in. Perfect use=ideal situation in which the birth control method is followed 100 per cent accurately.