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Birth Control
1930-1939
 
In 1930, the National Birth Control Council, later the Family Planning Association (FPA) was founded by the birth control pioneer, Helena Wright. Just over thirty years later, in 1961, the first contraceptive pill went on sale in the UK.
 
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Morning After Pill
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Contraception rationing
 
 
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