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(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| The law and planned parenthood case report. |
| CONNECTICUT MEDICINE. 1992 Feb;56(2):100. |
| The physician, dedicated to the preservation of health as well as the treatment of illness, must be conversant with |
| both the immediate and the remote causes of disease. The following 1942 Connecticut case report has its origins |
| in social, religious, economic, legal, as well as medical factors; it ends with the death of a white female, age 23. |
| While medicine must conform itself to social regulation, medicine must also bring evidence of the unsatisfactory |
| nature of such regulations to the immediate attention of all who influence those regulations. The patient was |
| admitted to the hospital May 16, complaining of chills, fever, and bloody vaginal discharge. The patient had 4 |
| children, ages 1-7 years old. The husband was a truck driver earning $20 to $325 a week. Husband and wife |
| decided it would be wise to limit the size of their family. Contraception (condoms) were used until about 9 months |
| before the present illness, when the druggist declined to continue to sell the patient any form of contraception. The |
| woman's last menstrual period occurred in late January. On May 12, the patient produced by a self-induced abortion, |
| 2 fetuses through the insertion of a catheter, sterilized by boiling, into her uterus. 2 days later she was hospitalized |
| with a fever of 105.4 degrees Fahrenheit, a pulse rate of 130/minute, and a rebound tenderness over the lower |
| abdomen. The uterus was enlarged to the size of about a 3-month pregnancy, and was soft and tender on motion. |
| The cervix was enlarged, soft, and discharged a sanguinous fluid. The blood and cervical discharge culture yielded |
| a heavy growth of beta hemolytic streptococci. Despite treatment, the blood culture remained heavily positive; the |
| patient had a temperature spiking to 106 degrees Fahrenheit. Coma was followed by death on the 25th day of |
| hospitalization. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 1544-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "The law and planned parenthood case report.", is(are) |
| Winternitz MC; Bunting H. The source of this article is "CONNECTICUT MEDICINE. 1992 Feb;56(2):100.". This |
| article was published in 1992 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 1544-06. All rights |
| reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 11544 |
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