释义 |
birth controlˈbirth conˌtrol noun [uncountable]  - Have you discussed birth control with your daughter?
- Average age at last birth is about 40 years in populations not practising birth control.
- During the inter-war period birth control was discussed more openly than ever before.
- Many feminists were also interested in birth control as an issue although discretion dictated a public silence.
- Meanwhile, the birth control movement was becoming more respectable.
- There are, moreover, other barriers to using birth control.
- They include birth control pills, other ovulation suppressors and long-acting hormones.
- Today's methods of birth control make it possible for a couple to choose whether or not to have a child.
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