Links: Birth Control

Birth Control.
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual_home2/sec22/ch255/ch255b.jsp
Offers a wide variety of information about conception, birth control, and other aspects related to the conceptual process.

The History of Contraception from Antiquity to the Present Day.
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/mclaren.html
This site gives aa summary overview of contraception options through the ages from the text by Angus McLaren and why some have stayed around while others have disappeared.

The National Women's Health Information Center.
http://www.4woman.org/
The National Women's Health Information Center is a one-stop gateway for women seeking health information. NWHIC is a free information and resource service on women's health issues designed just for you, whether you're a consumer, a health care professional, a researcher, an educator, or a student.

The Pill.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/e_church.html

Until the 1930s, the Catholic Church was not alone in its opposition to contraceptives. This PBS program explores this controversy.

Sophia Smith Collection, Subject Guides--Reprodductibe Rights and Women's Health.
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/subjbc.html
The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history, consisting of over 5,000 linear feet of material in manuscript, print, and audio- visual formats. The holdings document the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present. Subject strengths include birth control, women's rights, suffrage, the contemporary women's movement, U.S. women working abroad, the arts (especially theatre), the professions (especially journalism and social work), and middle-class family life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New England.