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A satirical Victorian era postcard, where a woman swats away the stork which has brought her her child.
Etymology
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.
birth control glasses, BCG, BCGs, BC(US Navy standard issue eyeglass frames euphemistically referred to as "BC" or "birth control" due to their unattractiveness)
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