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5: Let's Talk About The Dark History Of Birth Control. Buckle In.

2021/7/28
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Bailey Sarian explores her curiosity about birth control, leading her to discover its scandalous origins involving eugenics and mass sterilizations in Puerto Rico.

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Birth Control is in medicine cabinets all over the world, used by millions of women. But few know its scandalous history involves mass sterilizations of Puerto Rican women, an American business tycoon, and an activist who dabbled in eugenics. What’s eugenics? You’ll find out. And it ain’t pretty. Today, Bailey reveals the big history behind the little pill that changed family planning forever.

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