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[ noun ] limiting the number of children born
Synonyms Used in print (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)He thereby precipitated a bitter controversy involving Protestants , Jews and Roman_Catholics that continued for two months , until the city 's Board of Hospitals lifted the ban on birth-control therapy . These incidents , typical of many others , dramatize the distressing fact that no controversy during the last several decades has caused more tension , rancor and strife among religious groups in this country than the birth-control issue . It has erupted on the national level in the matter of including birth-control information and material in foreign aid to underdeveloped countries . `` All_too frequently '' , points_out James_O'_Gara , managing_editor of Commonweal , `` Catholics run_roughshod over Protestant sensibilities in this matter , by failure to consider the reasoning behind the Protestant position and , particularly , by their jibes at the fact that Protestant opinion on birth_control has changed in recent decades '' . The laws of many states permit birth_control only for medical reasons . |
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