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单词 birth controller
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birth controllern.

Brit. /ˈbəːθ kənˌtrəʊlə/, U.S. /ˈbərθ kənˌtroʊlər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: birth n.1, controller n.
Etymology: < birth n.1 + controller n., after birth control n.
Now chiefly historical.
An advocate or practitioner of birth control.The term was originally and chiefly used of campaigners for legal contraception in the United States in the early 20th cent. (the use and distribution of contraceptive products being widely outlawed at the time).
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1916 Salt Lake (Utah) Telegram 4 June 11/3 Miss Goldman said the birth controllers had a martyr among them, and she mentioned Ben L. Reitman, who recently was sent to the Queens county jail for spreading birth control knowledge.
1972 Economist 17 June 6/3 Although the middle classes are the more effective birth-controllers, the last two censuses have shown that their fertility is rising.
2003 J. Nelson Women of Color & Reprod. Rights Movement iii. 93 Birth controllers justified the provision of contraceptives to the poor with the logic that not only the rich should be able to regulate their fertility.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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