A reprehensible practice is that of certain so-called "mail order chemists," who send out price-lists of contraceptives and abortifacients indiscriminately through the post.
Contraceptives are largely used, and, judging by the marked decline in the birth-rate in recent years, are in many cases successful.
We recommend that the restriction on the advertisement of contraceptives should be more rigidly enforced, and particularly that the promiscuous advertisement and sale of contraceptives by "mail order" agencies should be made illegal.
We recommend that it should be made unlawful to supply contraceptives to young persons.
One factor of great importance we believe to be the widespread use of contraceptives amongst the unmarried.
Unlike some authorities who must be heard with respect, I can say with confidence that some of the noblest, happiest and most romantic marriages I know base their control of conception not on contraceptives but on abstinence.
I conceive it much better to use contraceptives than to bear unwanted children; I conceive it also better to use them than to be cruel to others or become neurotic oneself; but that it is the ideal I do not believe.
His comparison between the use of contraceptives and eating or drinking is a false analogy.
He would like the opinion to go forth from the section that the use of contraceptives was a bad thing.
Gibbons recalled a large number of patients who had used contraceptives in early married life, and subsequently had longed in vain for a child.
I presume that of the bliss following marriage with contraceptives the crowded lists of our divorce courts are an index.
Neuroses Professor McIlroy, of the London School of Medicine for Women, deplored the amount of time spent on attempting to cure sterility when contraceptiveswere so largely used.
Anaesthetics assist the birth of a child, whereas contraceptives frustrate the act of procreation.
Eating is a natural act, not in itself sinful, whereas the use ofcontraceptives is an unnatural act, in itself a sin.
But he refrained from making that appeal, and his plea for the use of contraceptives in moderation is more likely to be quoted with approval in the boudoirs of Mayfair than in humbler homes.
Of course the use of contraceptives is the very negation of self-control.
Despite this fact the American Malthusians are now demanding that a National Bureau should be established to disseminate information regarding contraceptives throughout their country!
First, many of the cases of failure are to be ascribed not to the contraceptives themselves, but to their improper, careless and unintelligent use.
Yes, my dear young lady, but I never made the claim that the contraceptives were absolutely infallible, I never claimed that they were 100 per cent.
Contraceptive Measures= And the argument that contraceptives are injurious to the health of the woman, of the man, or of both, may be curtly dismissed.
But even if it were true, the amount of injury that can be done by contraceptives would be like a drop of water in comparison with the injuries resulting from excessive pregnancies and childbirths.
The commonest argument now made against contraceptives is that they are not absolutely safe, that is, absolutely to be relied upon, that they will not prevent in absolutely every case.
As any instruction in the use of contraceptives would be wasted on the feebleminded, the only way to guard the race against pollution with feebleminded stock is either to segregate or to sterilize them.
When women confidently and insistently demand them, they will have access to contraceptives which are both certain and harmless.
Most of the women of the middle and upper classes in America seem secure in their knowledge of contraceptives as a means of birth control.
Are overburdened mothers justified in their appeals for contraceptives or abortions?
Meanwhile, the provisions regarding contraceptives had been dropped from the amended New York State law of 1872.
Infanticide tends to disappear as skill in producing abortions is developed or knowledge of contraceptives is spread, and only then.
To understand the more clearly the difference between birth control by contraceptives and family limitation through abortion it is necessary to know something of the processes of conception.
Women who have a knowledge of contraceptives are not compelled to make the choice between a maternal experience and a marred love life; they are not forced to balance motherhood against social and spiritual activities.
The nations mentioned are typical of the world, except those countries where information concerning contraceptives has enabled women to limit their families without recourse to operations.
Contraceptives are quite as necessary to these "self-controlled" ones who do not desire children every year as to those who lead normal, happy love lives.
It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.
Had she been permitted the use of contraceptives before she was forced to make a vain plea for abortion, would she not have rendered a service to her fellow citizens, as well as to herself?
And under that decision, a physician has a right, and it is therefore his duty, to prescribe contraceptives in such cases, at least, as those involving disease.
One of the most frequent of all the mistakes made in recommending contraceptives is the advice to use an antiseptic or cold-water douche.
Whatever views may be held concerning the use of contraceptives by older people (married or unmarried) no responsible father or mother would countenance their possession by their young sons and daughters.
The Committee is unanimous that adolescents should not buy or have contraceptives in their possession.
Contraceptives thereafter came into common use, are now purchased by a majority of married couples, and by many unmarried persons.
The Committee has found a strong public demand that contraceptives should not be allowed to get into the hands of children and adolescents.
It was not foreseen, when they came into use, that questions would arise as to the validity of certain marriages where one party used contraceptives to avoid having children.
It is improbable that the practice of using contraceptives will continue for even a generation without revealing the harmful effects which must to some extent ensue.
Many people seem to think that contraceptives prevent venereal disease at the same time that they prevent conception.
But it is necessary to consider more carefully the claim made to-day that contraceptives are both necessary and harmless, and that public propaganda on the subject is desirable.
The use of contraceptives does not encourage self-control, yet the cultivation of self-control is a far higher gain to the individual and the nation than any apparent advantages obtained by its abandonment.
Our conclusion is that for mothers and children it is very desirable that no contraceptives should be used in the early years of married life.
And in New Zealand, where the sale of contraceptives is practically free, the birth rate is now 20, and the mortality rate is 10.
It would be just as absurd to advocate the complete abandonment of contraceptives on the ground that some of them have been misused.
Eye-glasses and contraceptives alike are a portal to the spiritual world for many who, without them, would find that world largely a closed book.
Forel has in this connection compared the use of contraceptives to the use of eye-glasses.
Against these disconcerting possibilities is often placed, on the other side, the un-æsthetic nature of the contraceptives associated with birth-control.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contraceptives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
