Now, women’s rights activists and legal experts worry about a future in which access to birth control will be curtailed.
1550 B.C.:
An early prescription for birth control, written on papyrus, calls for a tampon made of seed wool soaked in ground thorn tree, dates, and honey. It worked in part because acacia ferments into lactic acid, an ingredient in today’s spermicides.The contraceptive flowering plant silphium, which grew in Libya, cost its weight in silver. Due to high demand, silphium was extinct from over-harvesting by the first century A.D.
In Colonial America, abortion was generally not prosecuted or condemned up until quickening, when the fetus began to kick and move.Women used a variety of methods to avoid pregnancy, such as withdrawal by the male, diaphragms, douching, condoms and rhythm methods. Dangerous potions and pills also were used to prevent pregnancy. Some women nursed their children for up to two years to prolong the period of time when they were infertile.
The rhythm method — calculating a woman’s fertile period and abstaining from sex during that time — wasn’t effective because the calculations were based on observations of animals.About 1-in-30 pregnancies was terminated by abortion. Methods ranged from surgery, poisons, medicine made from plants and herbs, and striking the woman’s abdomen repeatedly.
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