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    Methylmercury and Human Embryonic Development 

    Minai, Mandana
    Methylmercury (MeHg) is an organic form of mercury that can damage the developing brains of human fetuses. Women who consume methylmercury during pregnancy can bear children who have neurological issues because methylmercury ...
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    Estrogen and the Menstrual Cycle in Humans 

    Van Iten, Brendan
    Estrogen is the primary sex hormone in women and it functions during the reproductive menstrual cycle. Women have three major types of estrogen: estrone, estradiol, and estriol, which bind to and activate receptors within ...
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    John Hunter (1728–1793) 

    Wagoner, Nevada
    John Hunter studied human reproductive anatomy, and in eighteenth century England, performed one of the earliest described cases of artificial insemination. Hunter dissected thousands of animals and human cadavers to study ...
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    The Malthusian League (1877–1927) 

    Nunez-Eddy, Claudia
    The Malthusian League, founded in London, England, in 1877 promoted the use of contraception to limit family size. Activists Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant established the Malthusian League after they were arrested and ...
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    Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (1872-1947) 

    Malladi, Lakshmeeramya
    Mary Coffin Ware Dennett advocated for social reform in the United States in the early twentieth century, particularly regarding sex education and women's rights to access contraception. Dennett authored several publications ...
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    Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879-1966) 

    Nunez-Eddy, Claudia; Malladi, Lakshmeeramya
    Margaret Higgins Sanger advocated for birth control in the United States and Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although people used contraceptives prior to the twentieth century, in the US ...
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    Evaluation of the Newborn Infant--Second Report (1958), by Virginia Apgar et al. 

    Abboud, Carolina J.
    Virginia Apgar and colleagues wrote “Evaluation of the Newborn Infant—Second Report” in 1958. This article explained that Apgar’s system for evaluating infants’ condition after birth accurately predicted the health of ...
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    “Elective Induction of Labor” (1955), by Edward Bishop 

    Abboud, Carolina J.
    In 1955, obstetrician Edward Bishop, a physician specializing in childbirth, published the article “Elective Induction of Labor,” in which he proposed the best conditions for pregnant women to elect to induce, or begin, ...
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    Karl Oskar Illmensee (1939–) 

    Lancaster, Cheryl
    Karl Oskar Illmensee studied the cloning and reproduction of fruit flies, mice, and humans in the US and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Illmensee used nuclear transfer techniques (cloning) to create ...
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    Title X Family Planning Program (1970–1977) 

    Ciardullo, Patsy; Wagoner, Nevada
    The Family Planning Services and Public Research Act of 1970, often called Title X Family Planning Program, is a US federal law that provides federal funding for family planning services to low income or uninsured families. ...
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